Multiple Choice Quiz

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How to answer

You are presented with a list of choices that include the correct answer and randomly selected distractors.

Click the button for the correct answer.

If you pick the correct answer the first time, the quiz will automatically advance to the next question. This helps speed through questions you know.

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Ensuring success

If you select the wrong answer, that choice is disabled. Eventually only the correct answer remains.

If you require multiple attempts to get the correct answer, the question will be repeated a few questions later. The quiz will not advance to the next question until you tell it to. This gives you time to study the correct answer.

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Adjusting the difficulty

This is the easiest type of quiz because you only need to recognize the answer, not recall it.

To make the quiz easier, have fewer choices. To make it harder, add more choices. Once you can quickly pick out the answer even when there are many choices, move on to a

Cloze Quiz⁠

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How my quiz is unique

Picking distractors based on groups. Distractors are from all questions. This makes it easy to pick the answer based on the type of information the question is asking—if the question asks for a person, a year is clearly not the answer.

My quiz lets you place questions into groups so that distractors are more closely related.

Varying number of distractors. Fewer distractors makes a quiz easier; more distractors makes it harder. Most multiple choice quiz engines only allow a fixed number of choices—typically 4-5. My system lets you have up to 20 choices, helping bridge the mental gap between recognizing and recalling.

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Study hints

If you have only a few distractors, you may want them to appear in random order. However, in some cases sorted distractors is the better choice:

many distractors. when you know the answer, it is much easier to find it in a long list if the list is sorted.

inherent order. if there is an inherent order in the choices (e.g. all numbers), having them sorted makes it easier to evaluate the choices and find the one you want.

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Writing questions

Assign logical groups to questions to use when setting distractors. For example, group answers by answer type so that questions where the answer is a person don’t get distractors that are years.

Ensure that potential distractors are not alternative, correct answers. If they are, make sure that the questions belong to different groups

A true/false question is a multiple choice question with only two possible choices: true or false. To create true/false questions, create questions with true and false as the answers and put them in a group by themselves. Sort the answers when taking the quiz so that the choices always appear in the same order.