Objective Examination Papers in the Medical Curriculum

A Simple Automated Method of Marking Multiple-choice Questionnaires Using a Computer

“…The time taken for marking the questions may be reduced to a minimum with the use of automatic marking. However, in the methods so far described, some form of mark‐sensing machine is required (Sinclair, 1953; Scott and Burke, 1957; Harris, and Buckley‐Sharp, 1968; Anderson, Wood, and Tomlinson, 1968). We describe here a method which allows questionnaires to be marked cheaply, accurately, and automatically using a standard computer without mark‐sensing facilities.…”