I have heard that medical students get multiple choice tests.
WTF?!!!
Multiple choice tests only for the ability to choose a correct answer among all the possibilities given. It does not test your knowledge base at all. Yes, I have a poor opinion of multiple choice tests. And yes, maybe it's because the only tests I've taken had been essay-type exams, and I'm a little bitter at the fact that biology grad students (often stereotyped as med school rejects) have to really learn the material while med students (who knows, maybe one of them will be your future surgeon) can skate by with guessing at the answers.