How to Use multiple-choice in a Sentence

multiple-choice

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  • The format of the CMA exam includes a blend of multiple-choice questions and essay sections.
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Users must be 18 years old and in the US to participate in the multiple-choice trivia rounds, which will be livestreamed on the official @TikTok account.
    Mia Sato, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The chatbot will read the information on the website and generate a multiple-choice test.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The vocabulary on the state test was beyond his reach, and multiple-choice questions that asked for the best answer also confused him.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • According to the plaintiffs, more than 90% of White applicants passed the multiple-choice and essay test while Black applicants only passed 53% of the time.
    Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 16 July 2023
  • There are tools to make highlights and annotations, and to cross out multiple-choice responses students think are wrong.
    Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Spellers get 90 seconds for each of their turns for spelling and 30 seconds for multiple-choice vocab questions.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2024
  • In turn, this technology has ushered in an epoch of multiple-choice testing.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • These aren’t factual or rote memorization questions — these are a kind of multiple-choice brain teasers that tell you a whole bunch of different facts and then asks you to sort them out.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The multiple-choice answers don’t reflect the real-world scenarios social workers face, Love said.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Landy visited the Academy’s Web site looking for an answer, and found that none of the multiple-choice options listed on the test matched the explanation the Academy gave.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Each session in the spelling bee consists of two spelling rounds and one round in which contestants answer multiple-choice questions about the definition of words.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • Not quite satisfied, the credit agency fed me a series of multiple-choice identity questions about mortgages and car loans.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024
  • Some tests offer multiple-choice answers, while others ask models to generate their own answers based on prompts.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the end, those who answer all the multiple-choice questions on allyship, bias, and privilege correctly are rewarded with a handy discount voucher.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Oral exams won’t be fully embraced because most of us lean toward the less-confrontational route of multiple-choice exams.
    WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • These exams rely on multiple-choice questions that assess book learning.
    Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Some states established a holiday that mimicked a multiple-choice exam.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The movie’s multiple-choice ending only underscores just how little the mystery matters in this madcap comedy.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • To pass, applicants must correctly answer at least 17 multiple-choice questions within an hour.
    Kate Brady, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • MacLean said the 40-question multiple-choice assessment at the end of PragerU’s course doesn’t really do enough to assess whether students learned financial literacy concepts.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Kinesthetic learners, on the other hand, may find hands-on practice tests with simulations and multiple-choice questions most effective.
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The qualifying round ended last Saturday, lasting 48 hours, and was conducted online with multiple-choice and essay-length questions.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 22 June 2024
  • When Dyer and his colleagues posed the movie emoji task using a multiple-choice format, for example, the accuracy improvement was less of a sudden jump and more of a gradual increase with more complexity.
    Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Afterwards, viewers will be invited to take a short, multiple-choice survey testing their ability to identify the manipulation technique featured in the ad.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Wonderlic test: The general aptitude test involves 50 multiple-choice questions over 12 minutes.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Participants were tasked with spelling words as well as answering multiple-choice vocabulary questions.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
  • The test mostly consists of multiple-choice questions that students answer after reading short passages or applying basic math computations or formulas.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2023
  • This approach underscores the importance of balancing your preparation between multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and essay questions.
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2024

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