0 Test-Taking Formats and What You Can Learn from

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By Aric Mitchell
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Assessments may feel like the bane of your educational existence, but they’re the only
way to determine where your skills and knowledge are compared to the benchmark of
quality education. Necessary evil, you may be thinking. But why do they have to differ
so much? Wouldn’t it be easier to just decide on a set format for testing and go with it?
Not exactly. You may not realize it, but each of the different test-taking formats actually
teaches you something different about the challenges you’ll face in the “real world.”
Let’s take them one at a time.

1. Computer testing
This is probably the test format that requires the least amount of explanation. Everyone
needs to have computer skills in the 21st Century workplace. It doesn’t matter if your
collar is blue or white; computer testing teaches you how to use computers in a work
setting so that you can see them as functional tools rather than a way to play a game of
8-Bit Zombie.

2. Multiple choice
Multiple choice is one of the oldest forms of testing and also one of the most deceptively
frustrating at the standardized level. While most multiple choice exams will give you one
or two options that are clearly wrong per question, they typically accompany that help
with the challenge of two answers that sound like they could be right while only one
actually is.

And don’t get us started on the “All/None of the above” options! Who among you hasn’t
wanted to choose letter D (or E) just because it had those words beside it? While
Multiple Choice exams are challenging, they teach you to look closer at the facts as
they are represented, emphasize word choice and deduce the best option.
 3. True/False
One of the easier test formats to learn, this gives you a 50/50 chance of getting every
question right. But haphazardly choosing an answer can also lead to disaster. In much
the same manner as Multiple Choice exams, True/False tests require you to read closer
and consider both what is presented in the question and what is not said about the
subject but you know to be true. Discernment is the best skill you can take from this
format.

4. Matching
Matching exams are favorites among high school students because one needn’t know
all the material to get every question right. If one knows 50% of the answers, it’s still
possible to get a 100% through careful reading, consideration and the process of
elimination. Matching helps you fill the blanks in your knowledge with the items that you
know to be true and teaches you to trust your instincts.

5. Short Answer Response/Fill-in-the-Blanks

While the Fill-in-the-Blanks portion could have been grouped with No. 4, you can’t
always be certain you’ll have a word bank to choose from. Some Fill-in-the-Blank tests
require you to provide answers based on your knowledge alone in much the same
manner as Short Answer Responses. These exam types teach you to internalize
material as you take notes, listen in class and/or perform the assigned reading. If you
know there are no safety nets–and in the “real world,” there often are not–then you’ll be
more inclined to focus your thoughts during study time.

6. Essay questions
More than simply choosing the right answer from a list of words or options, essay
questions are useful in that they force you to consider all the information, facts and
theories across a subject and formulate your own response while justifying that
response with what is known. They also beef up your writing and communication skills–
two essentials in any career.

7. Scantron testing
Raise your hand if you hate filling in scantrons. Many students do because of the fear
that even if they choose the right answer, the machine will read it as wrong. And forget
about it if you choose the wrong answer and then try to change it. There aren’t enough
good erasers in the world. Fortunately, scantron tests are becoming outdated at the
college level, though many teachers still use them. While it’s hard to imagine they
survive another 10 or 15 years, they are still useful to education in that they force the
test-taker to slow down, better consider his choices and pay extra attention to detail.

8. Open-book testing
Don’t think for a minute that open-book tests are easier just because all the answers are
right there in front of you. While they often are, finding those right answers can mean
sifting through hundreds of thousands of words without the help of the Ctrl+F functi
on on your computer. Luckily, you have some tools to help: the index, the table of
contents and the headings and sub-headings within the testing material itself. Open-
book tests are actually quite useful for the very reason they are challenging. They teach
the test-taker to focus in on correct information with razor precision in a manner that
drowns out noise while simultaneously making connections to other material for a
deeper sense of understanding.

9. Oral testing
You won’t necessarily see this at every level of education but that doesn’t make it any
less important. Oral testing such as the kind found in listening exams and in interviews
for doctorate degrees, are vital to building one’s communication skills and confidence
which are highly needed in today’s world.
10. Research projects
Not every exam is given in a quiet environment from a booklet of information that has
“EXAM” printed at the top. Sometimes finding the exam is one of the biggest
challenges, and that’s what doctorate candidates and students in research classes have
to do every year. In addition to researching information, formulating a thesis and then
using the facts and information to prove that thesis, these students are creating the
exam even as they are taking it.

Research projects are the most challenging test format around, but they are also the
most beneficial in that they help the student to demonstrate true mastery of the material.
Nothing is left to luck or chance but instead depends fully on self-reliance.

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