Table 2 Free-text questions on feasibility of MCQ writing task

Based on your experience of writing MCQs:

1. What difficulties did you encounter in writing MCQs? How did you overcome these difficulties?

2. What would you change about the way this activity was designed?

3. Did you refer to the MCQ writing guidance that was introduced in the first class?

4. How did the guidance help you generate your MCQs? Was it useful to prepare you for MCQ writing?

Based on giving feedback to others and reflecting on your own questions:

5. What made for a clear MCQ?

6. What made for a good distractor?

7. What kinds of questions made you draw on your knowledge of different parts of the medical curriculum?