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Table 2 Question types per discipline and year

From: Pattern recognition as a concept for multiple-choice questions in a national licensing exam

  

Question type

 

Discipline

Year

PRQ (%)

IPRQ (%)

PPRQ (%)

KQ (%)

Sum (%)

Surgery

2012

53.6

7.1

3.6

35.7

100

2011

30.6

5.6

2.8

61.0

100

2010

40.5

8.1

0.0

51.4

100

2009

43.3

1.,0

3.3

43.4

100

2008

17.4

8.7

4.3

69.6

100

2007

28.6

0.0

2.9

68.5

100

2006

90.5

0.0

0.0

9.5

100

Pediatrics

2012

58.9

8.8

2.9

29.4

100

2011

48.2

1.,6

3.6

28.6

100

2010

41.5

1.,9

3.8

35.8

100

2009

52.5

1.5

5.0

30.0

100

2008

65.7

8.6

0.0

25.7

100

2007

62.8

7.0

2.3

27.9

100

2006

40.0

0.0

0.0

60.0

100

Neurology

2012

48.0

1.0

2.0

34.0

100

2011

50.0

18.8

3.1

28.1

100

2010

69.2

15.4

0.0

15.4

100

2009

60.0

22.0

2.0

16.0

100

2008

61.5

9.6

5.8

23.1

100

2007

49.0

19.1

2.1

29.8

100

2006

80.0

5.7

0.0

14.3

100

Internal Medicine

2012

22.2

3.7

4.9

69.2

100

2011

28.5

0.8

7.7

63.0

100

2010

35.5

5.9

13.2

45.4

100

2009

34.4

16.2

3.9

45.5

100

2008

50.4

5.3

6.2

38.1

100

2007

34.0

8.5

4.6

52.9

100

 

2006

44.8

1.5

1.5

52.2

100