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Please feel free to contribute any "pro tips" you have on use cases to aid in efficient and effective multiple choice test marking.

Method Marks

It's never a bad idea... Simply allow only one answer (and tell the students to only make one selection in the test). Fluky will assign 0 marks to that question if more than one choice is made. This enables you to assign variable marks to each choice based on "correctness" or "wrongness".

For example, the question could be out of 5 marks. 5 marks is for the correct answer on A. C might be partially correct (the person who sets the test should figure out some common mistakes a student might make), and be worth 2 marks. Perhaps option D is worth 1 mark. B and E could be totally wrong and be worth 0, or even negative!

This method ensures students can still get some marks (perhaps not enough to pass), but they won't get zero!

Test Variations

Since it's easy to cheat through the corner of ones eye in a multiple choice test, make several variations where the options are shuffled randomly. Fluky can be used to mark these variations easily.

Set the first question to be which variation it is. Say we have 3 variations, A, B and C. Make option A worth 0 marks. Option B worth 1000 and option C worth 2000. When you mark the tests, you will need to set three different mark models. Run all of the papers through each model.

In your favourite spreadsheet application, load all three CSV files at the same time. Using formulas, subtract 1000 and 2000 from all of the marks and when the marks are some low number less than 1000 (not negative) then they must have written that version of the test! Create a fourth sheet to consolidate all the correct marks.