In the conventional comparison of objective test items used in UGC NET…

Concept

An official answer key establishes the accepted response for a previous-year question. That historical fact must be separated from modern psychometric terminology.

Scoring objectivity means independence from scorer judgment; guessing probability and discrimination are related item-quality properties, but they are not the same construct.

Application

This item appears as Question 4 in UGC NET December 2015 Paper I, Set P. The final key lists Question 4 as response 1, which corresponds to the statement “They are more objective than true-false questions.”

Contrast

• “They are less objective than essay questions” is not the response recorded for this item; it also reverses the usual fixed-response versus constructed-response comparison.

• “They are more subjective than short-answer questions” is not the recorded response and reverses the fixed-key versus interpreted-response distinction.

• “They are more subjective than true-false questions” is not the recorded response; both formats use predetermined scoring keys.

Cross-check

The question-paper wording and the final key jointly establish the historical answer. In present-day measurement language, both multiple-choice and true-false items have high scoring objectivity; the older key reflects a broader conventional comparison that also considered lower guessing and stronger discrimination.

Result

The officially accepted statement is: They are more objective than true-false questions.