Thanks for spelling it out. As I thought: all those criticisms are criticisms of poorly written MCQ tests, not things inherent to the format.

Of course, if many of you have only ever encountered poor MCQ tests, it's entirely reasonable to be suspicious when one is proposed! I will only say: you haven't sat mine :-) (Which were hard work to set, which is why I'm not using the format just now, I confess.)

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