Some writers suggest there be no more than five to eight premises (Column A) in one set. For each premise, the student has to read through the entire list of responses (or those still unused) to find the matching response. For this reason, the shorter elements should be in Column B, rather than Column A to minimize the amount of reading needed for each item. Although there is little difference in the length of items in the two columns in Examples 1 and 2, note the improvement in Example 3b when the items in the two columns in Example 3a are reversed.