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Re:Cal State will no longer require math and English placeme... by dom0 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:58AM (#14967674)
> Quizzes (both single and multiple choice) are the worst possible way of testing student's knowledge, because they are sooo... easy.

Very much depends.

"Name members of X" is an easy question (unless there is a great amount of material that could be covered).

"Mark the following statements as correct or incorrect. Correct classification adds, wrong classification deducts points." can be a quite difficult type of checkbox-test.

Re:Cal State will no longer require math and English placeme... by jononor on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:29AM (#14968528)
Often there are ways to deduce the likely correct answer due to the way the questions and alternatives are formulated.