The selection item demand Builder consideration these other recommendations:

If all options begin with the word itself this should move to the statement.	Avoid using absolute terms as always, never, all, none; because they lead to remove the option.
It is advisable to submit the options column, because although they take up more space, facilitates the student reading.	It is preferable not to use single selection when not provide content and aims to build an adequate amount of such items or when you have to go to the use of distracting improvised, useless or illogical. The literature of the field not advised specifically a minimum of items, but there are writers who choose for a minimum of ten on the understanding that a school of first and second degrees well could be applied them tests with five items of selection. MEP accepts at least five, in a bid to prevent the misuse of this type of items and the construction of weak distracting.
The key must not differentiate themselves from the distracting by its wording or extension.
Based on the item and the options should appear on the same page.
Proof must devote a minimum of five items of this type.

The following example can help the teacher to give an idea of how made a selection in your instructions and structure item:

Examples of instructions for the selection of item

 Place x (x) of the corresponding response parentheses correctly.

 Mark with x letter containing the response.

 Stress response.

 Lock with a circle the letter corresponding to the answer.

 Indicated with an asterisk the letter containing the response.

"When the deer who shared the House with the jaguar saw dam it brought, be it saddened much." "(Brazil, indigenous story)".
In the previous text the term dam, which	BASE, FOOT OR STATEMENT MEANS
( )food for birds of prey	DISTRACTING
()small wild animal)	DISTRACTING
() part that hinders the passage	DISTRACTING
()product of a hunt	KEY