Additional personal factors are evaluated through essays, short-answer questions, letters of recommendation, and other application materials.

It is even possible to pass without receiving any credit for the essays, although the student would have to do extremely well on the multiple-choice and short-answer questions.

In this competition students answer either multiple-choice or short-answer questions relating to science and math facts or concepts.

The trickiest we ever get," he continued, "is in the short-answer questions like, 'Why do you want to come to the University of Chicago?'

The students polish their long essays, but lots of times they're off guard - and much more revealing - in responding to the short-answer questions.

Blue book exams typically include one or more essays or short-answer questions.

The Guts Round is an 80-minute team event with 36 short-answer questions on an assortment of subjects, of varying difficulty and point values.

And when they went over the short-answer questions, a good two-thirds of the kids scored 25 out of 25.

The short-answer questions on the MCAS are only included in the mathematics tests.

The Math A exam, which is the graduation standard, consists of 30 multiple-choice questions and 9 short-answer questions.