Although the FAA is an American organization, one wonders about the Canadian
The bigger question in my mind is the overall effectiveness of MC questions in accurately assessing the overall knowledge and understanding of a candidate. Like the provincial testing in grade 3 and 6 classrooms in our province, the flight knowledge test is only once piece of information used to determine the readiness of a candidate. But also like our provincial testing, the test is high stakes. If someone is having a bad day, their lousy performance at this one point in time is perhaps not reflective of their overall knowledge and understanding as a pilot. (Of course, one might argue that a pilot shouldn't get to have a "bad day", given the potential implications in the air, lol!)
The bigger problem is that when a test and actual knowledge are not closely aligned, and instructors or teachers are pressured to prep students for the test, rather than actually teach them what they need to know as pilots, the test becomes not only a useless frustration along the way, but actually a hazard -- as in "never mind why, don't think, just memorize so you can pass the test", but then in real life, how do you think critically in a critical situation? Lol!
The paralells between the ills of Ground School/aviation assessment in general and the public school system continue to amaze me!