Fig. 1From: Validity of very short answer versus single best answer questions for undergraduate assessmentMarking method using Microsoft Excel and filter. In this example, candidates were given a clinical vignette and then asked to interpret the patient’s 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG). There were 19 answers given by the students and seven variants of the correct answer (‘pericarditis’) were deemed acceptable as shown by the ticks in the filterBack to article page