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RULE 7. Do not give hint in the body of question.

x The Philippines gained its independence in 1898 and therefore celebrated
its centennial year in 2020.

RULE 8. Avoid long sentences as these tend to be true. Keep sentences
short.

x Tests need to be valid, reliable, and useful, although it would require a great
amount of time and effort to ensure that tests possess these test
characteristics.

✓ Tests need to be valid, reliable, and useful since it takes very little amount
of time, money and effort to construct tests with these characteristics.

RULE 9. Avoid quoting verbatim from reference materials or textbooks.

x For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.

✓ If you were to stand in a canoe and throw a life jacket forward to another
canoe would jerk backward.

RULE 10. Avoid the use of unfamiliar vocabulary.

x According to some politicians, the raison d’etre for capital punishment is
retribution.

✓ According to some politicians, the justification for capital punishment is
retribution.

RULE 11. With true or false questions, avoid grossly disproportionate
number of either true or false statements or even patterns in the occurrence
of true and false statements.

GUIDELINES IN WRITING COMPLETION TYPE TESTS

COMPLETION TEST
This test consists of a series of items, which requires the learners to fill a
word or phrase on the blanks. This is also called fill in the blank type of test.

ADVANTAGES ✓ Questions can be relatively easily constructed.
✓ It requires simple recognition of information that eliminates
the possibility of guessing.

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