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is it true that u people over in the good o'le US of A acctually have multiple choice exams ?

Multiple choice tests are common across the globe and not unique to the United States. But they are common in the US.

yeah, because here in the uK, the only multiple choice tests are the massivley irellivent cognitive ability tests, all majour tests and GCSE's extra arn't and i couldn't believe that people in the USA get them

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Yes.:D

doesn't that make it just a bit more easyer for people in the US to get good grades ? if you do it with multiple choice, around 1/4 chance for each question to get it right even if u don't know it, whereas here if u don't know the answer then your pretty screwd

I want multiple choice exams
Damn the exams in the UK are hard
I want easy multiple choice exams
im movin to america
so
America here i come

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SATs are multiple choice

MCAS makes multi choice painfull

Never had multiple choice questions in exams,
only in IQ tests
(Germany)

MCAS uses the multi choice system to trick you all the anwsers could be right but only one is the best. The Essays on the test which totaly about 35 are hard as hell.

Stafan whats your IQ?

you are from Massachusetts?
me too

Wow awsome have you taken 8th grade mcas? If not ill give you a tip or two

whats your IQ stefan?

139 here, I'm in US, never had MC on exams but stupid things like Achievement Tests that have no real meaning!!!

we always have most of our exams multiple choice with a small written work section. But easier to get good grades isn't always a bad thing because if more people get into university and get university educations there's a bigger workforce and better opportunities for everyone not just the people who are math and science geniuses

it's not good if people get into jobs that rquire qork and they don't have mulitple choice anymore. They have had grades they dont really deserve.

they need to teach people how to type in the UK

i'm typing so bad because my kewboard is ****ed, plus i'm only just learning to touch type ptroperly and the fact i'm useing this crappy MS keyboard doesn't help

^_^

I can c when people resort to comments about spelling or typing corrections that people are starting to get p*ssed off, u notice that a lot.

A Lot of the New York State Exams are multiple choice but there's usually extra things like essays and things you have to write out..
My English exam was 6 hours of 4 essays...

The AP Tests are much harder though...on an AP test you get penalized for random guessing on questions that are MC. They subtract .25 points off of your score for getting one wrong...So it's actually a better idea to accept you don't know it than to guess..:D
I had to take the AP Computer Science Exam...

to be honest, I believe it is a hidden agenda to make america dumber. Though that does not mean that multiple choice test, exams, etc. are easy. I do think, though, that teachers over use it on certain things :(

ugh
scantron

It's all an evil plot by the Scantron company because without multiple choice tests...they would go out of business....
Hmmmmmmmmm............

Americans are stoopid. They're multiple choice so that there's less chance of someone getting cramp from writing and sueing the exam board.

*runs away and hides in a tree*

i could agree with you on that

Well multiple choice is easier; in the case of open questions (Or to put it in other words, questions for which you have to write out the answer) there is certainly less then 25% chance of having your question right if you don't actually know the answer.

indeed we do have tests like that, on the SAT...and I think on the ACT (not sure though). I don't really care for them all that much..half the time the answers that I'm given are not close to the answer I think it should be.

~Alkaren Out~

Both SAT and ACT are multiple guess.
except SAT has a few math ones that were fill in.

took them both earlier this month. ew, hours of early morning testing are not my thing.

my sats have been of nor use or relevence to my education what so ever and are a waste of time, all they did was just check to c if you were in the right sets.

nod. Personally standerize(sp) testing is fairly pointless, and too much stuff is dependent upon it. The SAT and ACT aren't exactly a fair estiment of a person's knowledge (sp)

~Alkaren Out~

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HAHAhAHAHA! Not in my school! Except for TAAS, SAT. ACT, and other state and national tests. But for my individual classes, we rarely have multiple choice.

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yessir =D

multiple choice's test are the ezest in the world!!!....I love them...this is cuz writing is not my thing....