Faculty Members Development Unit held a workshop under the title "Modern tools to build exam questions" on Thursday, 19 October, 2017 by Dr. Tareq Abu Zned,  a teaching member of the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department and head of the college's Curricula Unit, and Dr. Magdy Bakhaitan, a teaching member of the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department and a supervisor of the college's exam review mechanism .

The workshop aimed to shed the light on the main goal of making exams, which is measuring the level of the student's scientific attainment and defining his points of strength and weakness through which the teaching member can assess and develop his method of teaching the curriculum. This can be done by classifying the students into groups via the exams and assessment of their scientific progress, and exposing the individual differences in attainment, which can help in developing the academic curricula.

Through the workshop, the light has been shed on the mechanism of building the exam questions by setting the main teaching and educational goals with a view to getting scientific results, in addition to drafting the important instructions needed for formulating goals of the curricula.

Among the important points in the workshop was setting the basics of the question diversity mechanism based on the diversity between essay questions, which depend on enabling the student to answer such kind of questions by selecting the proper ideas and facts, and essay questions that need a definite and short answer, including multiple choice questions and filling the blanks questions, which need to check the formulation of questions.

At the end of the workshop, panelists answered some questions and inquiries by attending faculty members about drafting exam questions and ways of diversifying different typical questions.