These pages contain Extended Matching Item questions based on the material in PeteSmif.org.uk
Extended Matching Item (EMI) questions are a multiple choice assessment where it is difficult to achieve a good score by chance alone. Each EMI consists of 5 questions around a common theme. There are at least 10 answers which can be applied to any of the questions. A guess has at best a 1/10 chance of being right. Compare with TRUE/FALSE MCQs where a random monkey is likely to score 50%

Really good, well written, EMIs strive to test synthesis and application of knowledge rather than recollection of isolated facts. This is as often an aspiration as an achievement.

frownNevertheless, some of the answers are deliberately ambiguous. The question always requires you to select the most appropriate answer. There may be more than one answer that might fit the question... but only one which is most appropriate. You may even have to think about it.

For the attention of dental and medical students at Liverpool University

These questions are approximately in the style of the EMIs used in Core Knowledge assessments

BUT
There are lots of ways of writing EMIs.... The ones here have my own idiosyncratic spin on them that will not necessarily be reproduced in the exams....

For example... I like questions which have numbers for answers... I like to include (and use) "none of the above" as an option... I tend to write short questions... and so on. There are many contributors to the exams... all with their own unique style of question writing.