Department of Physiology

Cell and Neuro Physiology

Sample True/False Questions

These questions are here for two purposes:

provide an indication of the type of multiple true-false question that is used on examinations
provide a mechanism to assess your own performance in the course

Question style

Each question consists of a number of related parts (usually 5) following some preamble. The preamble may simply define a topic, or it may describe some phenomenon in some detail, with diagrams, graphs, data etc. The questions then consist of simple statements which you need to judge to be substantially true or false. Answering the question consists of indicating your choice. You may chose not to answer.

Marking Scheme

Since the answer to each question is simply true or false, a guess has a 50% chance of being correct. Thus someone simply guessing the answer to all questions should get 50% of them right. To assign marks there are then two choices:

give marks for correct answers only, and scale marks downward from the expected range of 50-100% to 0-100%. Under this scheme everyone with a mark below 100% will be scaled down.
give a negative mark for an incorrect answer. Under this scheme guessing should give a result of 0. This gives the person answering the choice of not answering if they are unsure of the answer.

What will be reported to you

If you try a question, the server will mark your answers to one group of 5 questions and give you a mark out of 5. It will also provide you with explanations as to why your answers are right or wrong. The server treats each response to a group of questions completely separately, so you will not get a total mark at the end of trying more than one question group. If you want a total you will have to record your marks yourself.

What is recorded by our server

Every request to our server made by a browser anywhere is logged by the server, so your answers to a group of questions will be logged, but since you do not have to log in to our server to look at these questions, we only know roughly where the request has come from, not who it has come from. We may look at statistics on the answers selected by everyone answering a question at some future time, as this may help us refine the questions - for example if people consistently answer a question incorrectly. There is no intention to use the logs to attempt to infer the performance of an individual, which is pretty well impossible anyway. Of course if you email comments to us, the comments are not anonymous.

The Questions

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An invitation

Another way you can be involved in assessment of yourself and others is to write a question or two. If you wish to do so, and submit a question which is reasonable and added to the collection here, the authorship will be acknowledged in the question, for all users to see.