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license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- multiple-choice
language:
- nl
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- chemistry
- physics
- biology
- geography
- business
- math
- social_sciences
- exams
- history
- economics
pretty_name: dutch-ce-mcq
size_categories:
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<h1>Multiple Choice Questions of the Dutch Central Exam 1999-2024</h1>

<h2>What?</h2>

This dataset contains only multiple choice questions from the Dutch Central Exam (High School level). From Wikipedia:

The Eindexamen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛi̯ntɛksamən]) or centraal examen (CE) is the matriculation exam in the Netherlands, which takes place in a student's final year of high school education (voortgezet onderwijs; "continued education"). The exam is regulated by the Dutch Secondary Education Act[1] and the Decree on Central Examination of Secondary Education.[2]

Depending on the level of education (vmbo, havo or vwo), studies leading to the eindexamen typically take either four, five or six years to complete (not including eight years of primary education). Successfully completing the eindexamen grants the student a diploma that certifies their level of education. A vmbo diploma qualifies a student for vocational training (mbo), whereas a havo diploma qualifies them for education at a hogeschool. A vwo diploma is required to pursue studies at a research university. 

[1] "wetten.nl - Wet- en regelgeving - Wet op het voortgezet onderwijs - BWBR0002399". overheid.nl.

[2] "wetten.nl - Wet- en regelgeving - Eindexamenbesluit VO - BWBR0004593". overheid.nl.

<h2>Code</h2>

The code used to extract the data is from [https://github.com/esther2000/exam-mcq-nl](https://github.com/esther2000/exam-mcq-nl) and could be used to extract and process data from [Examenblad.nl](https://www.examenblad.nl), as published on [alleexamens.nl](alleexamens.nl).

**Note that the answer does not refer to the index, but the actual number of the option, e.g., 1->A 2->B 3->C 4->D**

<h2>Copyright</h2>

The rights of these exams belong to the State of The Netherlands. Please refer to their [copyright statement](https://www.examenblad.nl/over-examenblad/copyright) for more information.

<h2>References</h2>

If you use the dataset, please attribute as follows:
```
@misc{examenblad2024,
    title={https://www.examenblad.nl/ -- College voor Toetsen en Examens},
    year={2024},
    url={https://www.examenblad.nl/},
    note={Accessed: 2024-08}
}
```
```
@online{ploeger2024dutch,
    title={Multiple Choice Questions of the Dutch Central Exam 1999-2024},
    author={Ploeger, Esther and Zhang, Mike},
    year={2024},
    url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/jjzha/dutch-central-exam-mcq},
    note={Accessed: 2024-08-23}
}
```

<h2>Disclaimer</h2>

We manually filtered (i.e., by hand) the questions that are unanswerable (e.g., questions refering to sources). There could potentially be errors. Please feel free to leave a comment on specific errors.