With weighted questions, only one answer per question is correct, but questions can be worth different amounts as assigned by the instructor

Example:
Question 1: Answer B = 2 marks (all other answers = 0)
Question 2: Answer D = 4 marks (all other answers = 0)
For example, the answer to question 1 is worth 2 marks; the answer to question 2 is worth 4 marks.

With weighted answers, one answer is correct, but other answers could be worth part marks as assigned by the instructor.

Example:
Question 1:
A = 1 mark
B = 0.5 marks
C = 0.3 marks
D = 0 marks

In the example above, the answers to question 1 is A and is worth 1 mark; answer B is worth half a mark or 0.5; answer C is worth 0.3 of a mark; answer D is worth 0 marks.

• With the weighted file, it is easy for the instructor to allow more than one right answer to a question.
• Although most instructors may not usually want to do this, in situations where a second answer to a question is determined to be correct after the exam has been written, the instructor can allow both answers by providing a weighted file that shows this.

• The OMR exam system reads only one answer per question (the first bubble filled out).
• If the student bubbles in more than one response to a question, it will be reported as an error and flagged with an asterisk (*).
• If a student changes his/her mind and incompletely erases the first choice before or after bubbling in another choice, the scanner may detect the incomplete erasure and report a multiple response flagged with an asterisk (*).

• five versions, 100 questions per version, 5 answers per question (like the student's response sheet)
• values are comma-separated
• for each version a header line with the word "Version", followed by the version number and four more empty fields separated by commas, e.g. Version,1,,,, The header line is followed by a caption line: "Question:,A,B,C,D,E".
• for each question a line with the question number and a zero for each answer, e.g. 1,0,0,0,0,0. (You will replace some of the zeros by weighting values.)
• As a flat text file with comma-separated values, part of the template file looks like this:
  
  
  
• After creating the text file, open Excel
• Open the .txt file you just created
• In Excel, open the txt file and follow the steps below to create a delimited file:
• The Excel Text Import Wizard will automatically start.
• Select Delimited. (hover over image for expanded image)
  
• Click the Next> button
• Select Comma (only) (hover over image for expanded image)
  
• Click the Next> button
• Choose General then click on the Finish button
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• In the Save As dialog box, choose CSV format as the "Save as type". Name the file as you wish and click Save.
• If you use another spreadsheet, use a similar procedure, saving the file in a format that produces a flat text file with comma separated values.
• In Microsoft Excel, part of the template file looks like this:
  
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• The OMR system is limited to 5 versions, and the versions must be in sequence starting with 1.
• Provide the weight for each answer for each question, in order from A through E. Supply 5 answers after the question number, separated by commas, whether zero or not, e.g. 2,0,0,1,0,0 (i.e. for question 2, the right answer is C which is worth 1 mark)
• Unused questions may be left as they are (#,0,0,0,0,0) or deleted. For example if you have only 30 questions on your test, fill in the weights for the answers to the first thirty questions, and leave the rest of the questions with weights as 0,0,0,0,0 or fill in the weights for the first thirty questions and delete the other lines in that version.
• Unused versions may be left in the file or deleted.