“A test is a task or series of tasks used to obtain systematic observation presumed to be representative of educational or psychological traits or attributes.”
Keeping in view the past experiences and future needs in the field of test construction, the patterns of questions in our tests have changed. Now -a- days more weight age is given to objective type items in all papers of almost every level. This is really a good step towards the evaluation of students’ achievement. In objective type items the most commonly used type is the multiple choice items/ questions.