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Commercial Multiple Choice ( CMC ) is an enhanced version of multiple choice. The primary enhancement is an examinee volunteered factor denoting the degree of confidence the examinee has in their answer. There are three underlying intentions behind the use of this factor.

Feedback: The examinee declares their confidence in their answer, giving the assessor the opportunity to further target specific areas, even if the taker was lucky enough to choose the correct answer.

Misinformation Isolation: The premise is that a person armed with misinformation that they believe in is more detrimental than a person armed with no information. CMC exposes misinformed persons by showing where the examinee had a high degree of confidence in their wrong answers.

Scoring: Whether an examinee gets an answer right or not, their score for that question is multiplied by their confidence factor. As a result, an examinee with a high degree of confidence in their incorrect answers will have an adversely affected final score. An examinee with a low degree of confidence in their correct answers will score poorly for it but much better than the former examinee.

CMC does not consider lucky guesses useful for assessment. It is intended for fine grain assessment, with more detailed feedback.

CMC scores are typically much lower by design, with negative scores indicating confidence in misinformation. The pass mark for any particular CMC test should be determined with consideration of safety, economic and other issues for the scenarios that may be affected. A low pass mark for ice cream appreciation might be acceptable but not for industrial safety.

The standard factor, which a student determines for each answer, is a percentage between 0 and 100. The writer may apply an additional factor to any question to increase its weight ( for more important questions ) or a decreasing factor ( for less important questions ). The examiner may alternately increase or decrease the number of marks a question is worth which may be more transparent to the student and simpler to implement and revise.

CMC is intended for simple and effective analysis of individuals for commercial situations, where shortcomings and strengths are important. CMC was developed on December 9, 2014 by Tony Baruzza and is not in known use.