Write briefly on the pros and cons of MCQ-based examination system.

Multiple choice question based examination system has some advantages and disadvantages too. Some of them are described below:

Advantage:

• Quick and easy to score, by hand or electronically.
• Can be written so that they test a wide range of higher order thinking skills.
• Can cover a lots of content areas on a single exam and sills be answered in a class period. 

Disadvantages:

• Often test literacy skills: 'If the student read the question carefully, the answer is easy to  recognize even if the student knows little about the subject.
• Provide unprepared students the opportunity to guess and with the guesses that are right, they get credit for the things they don't know. 
• Expose students to misinformation that can influence subsequent thinking about the content.