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How to Stop Worrying about Multiple-Choice Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael A. Simpson
Michael A. Simpson*
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Academic Department of Psychiatry, The Royal Free Hospital, London
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I believe it was Charles Kaleb Colton who wrote that: ‘Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.’ Few statements are both so true and so comforting to the examination candidate, and so usefully cautionary for the examiner.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 2 , Issue 10 , October 1978 , pp. 177 - 179
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References

1. Anderson, John: The Multiple Choice Question in Medicine. Pitman Medical, 1976. (a good guide to the nature of the MCQ, with examples in general medicine).Google Scholar
2. Glew, Geoffrey: Multiple Choice Questions in Psychiatry. Butterworths, 1978. (a collection of questions, in 5 sample papers, with answers).Google Scholar
3. Fleming, P. R., Sanderson, P. H., Stokes, J. F., Walton, H. J.: Examinations in Medicine. Churchill-Livingstone, London. 1976. (a general guide, mainly for examiners, to various examination techniques, including the MCQ).Google Scholar
4. Hubbard, J. P. and Clemans, W. V. Multiple Choice Examinations in Medicine. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia. 1961 (reprinted 1968). (slightly out of date now, but the classic work on the subject).Google Scholar
5. Simpson, M. A. Medical Education: A Critical Approach. Butterworths. 1972. (the standard study of the faults and problems of medical education and review of how it might be improved).Google Scholar
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