You can have TestGen scramble the order of questions and answer choices on your test. When you have the test window open and active, select "Scramble" from the Question menu or click the Scramble button on the Standard toolbar and choose what to scramble:
All Questions—The order of test questions is randomly scrambled, regardless of which questions are selected.
Selected Answer Choices—The order of answer choices is scrambled for each selected multiple-choice or bimodal question.
All Questions and Answer Choices—Both the order of all the test questions and the order of answer choices for multiple-choice and bimodal questions are scrambled, regardless of which questions are selected.
Note: If you scramble test questions while a SmartSort is in effect, the questions on the test are randomly mixed at the lowest level of sorting so that the SmartSort rules are still enforced. For example, if the SmartSort is by question type, then questions of the same type remain together, but the order of questions within each question type is scrambled. Test items that are linked to a shared instruction will remain grouped during random scrambling.
Note: If the test questions are sorted by testbank order, the Scramble option is unavailable.
If you have test questions in a user-defined order and select to scramble questions, the questions are scrambled at random to produce the new order. No grouping occurs except for shared Instructions. Pinned questions and answer choices, however, remain stationary while everything else scrambles around them.
Scrambling a test that is in user-defined order may or may not produce desirable results, depending on the types of questions on the test. For example, if you manually put questions in order by question type, without using the SmartSort, scrambling questions on the test will usually mix up the questions so they are no longer grouped by type.