Multiple choice based assignments and examinations have become an integral part of the current academic system. In the time to come, the relevance and proportion of multiple choice questions is expected to increase its presence in the academic curricula. Educational institutions are increasingly showing a preference for multiple choice questions for a variety of reasons. The distinct advantages and constraints offered by multiple choice questions are:

• Multiple choice questions allow for a more holistic and broad based testing of a student’s knowledge and understanding pertaining to a particular topic. They give the paper setter the opportunity to pick up an incorporate content scattered uniformly across the entire curriculum. Thus the students who are oblivious of a significant portion of their curriculum stand to fair poor in such tests.
• It is relatively easier for the teachers to evaluate multiple choice questions. This poses a special problem for the students in the sense that the solution to a multiple choice question is either without exception right or wrong. Unlike lengthy questions or assignments, multiple choice questions do not give the students a chance to stand midway in terms of grades. Therefore, it is gets imperative for a student attempting a multiple choice test to give right answers to most of the questions to score good grades.
• Multiple choice questions allow the teacher to diagnose a student’s understanding, capabilities, and potential in a better way as they offer multiple response alternatives. In this the issue is that those students who do not fair well in such assignments may be perceived as being less capable, average, or deficient. Therefore a good score in a multiple choice assignment definitely bolsters a teacher’s positive perception pertaining to a student that eventually translates into good grades and favorable internal assessments.
• Multiple choice questions enable the examiners to comprehensively check a student’s level of cognitive complexity. Again, a good performance in a multiple choice assignment or test definitely stands to have a salubrious impact on a student’s academic performance.