Example of a Well Written Question

This article gives an example of a well written Question and has responses that are labeled according to our best practices. 

Question: 

A manager from your bank calls and requests your account details to verify a charge. Which is these is the proper response?

Answer Choices:

  1. Ask it they know your name. - This is an easy to eliminate response. Less likely to be right, and the reader quickly realizes that it is not the right answer.
  2. Hang up and call back. - The correct response
  3. Check that the phone number belongs to the bank. - This is the distractor answer. It seems right, but is not.
  4. Give them whatever they ask for! - This is the utterly ridiculous one.

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