title: Guide to postgraduate exams: multiple-choice questions.
abstract: Multiple-choice questions are among the most common components of medical exams. They are potentially very reliable and are easy and accurate to mark. Their validity leaves much to be desired, however, and the common practice of negative marking is ill considered.
authors: Medical Colleges of St Bartholomew's, London.
authors: G J
authors: GJ
authors: Holsgrove
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom