Hi Billy, My best experience with pretesting is more of a one-time event for a given class. These could be done before and after every chapter but I doubt that many classes allow that much time (unless it was done as low-point based homework assignment). As a one-time event, I write the questions in broader terms to find where my class is at overall based on the material I'm going to present over the entire course. If a majority of students do well in one or more areas, it may help me decide I can shift the curriculum where less emphasis is placed on that material since it appears they already are familar with the subject matter. Pretesting is a tool, and I think we should only use a tool when a job calls for it. So it's OK to do it for some classes, and not others. Barry Westling