A computer implemented test for the determination of candidate cognitive intelligences such as fluid ability, crystallized ability, broad visualization, broad auditory function, short-term acquisition and retrieval, tertiary storage and retrieval, broad speediness function, and broad quantitative ability, presents the candidate with sequences of questions to be answered, with at least some to the questions having multiple choice answers. The candidate's answer to each of the questions is obtained by the test, as is the time taken to answer each question and an indication of the confidence that the question has been correctly answered. The confidence indication is provided by the candidate nominating, for each answer, one of a plurality of confidence bands that best corresponds with their confidence that the answer was correct. For the multi-choice questions, the number of confidence bands corresponds to the number of choices for the answers. For example, if the answers are simply YES/NO then the confidence bands are 50/50%, whereas if five possible answers might be chosen, then the confidence bands are 0-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, 60-80%, and 80-100%, with 0-20% indicating that one has made a straight guess, 40-60% indicating that one has made an informed guess but is not sure, and 80-100% indicating that one is very sure that the choice is the correct answer to the question.
Computerised intelligence testing with multiple choice answer confidence rating