jjzha/dutch-central-exam-mcq-multimodal-subset

Multimodal Multiple Choice Questions of the Dutch Central Exam 1999-2024

What?

This dataset contains only multimodal 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.

Note: this is only a subset of all the data, We have to validate all by hand, because we use a pipline for parsing the PDFS.

Data Example

{
      "language": "nl",
      "country": "Netherlands",
      "file_name": "VMBO-BB_Biologie_2009_I.pdf",
      "source": "https://alleexamens.nl",
      "license": "cc-by-4.0",
      "level": "High School",
      "category_en": "Biology",
      "category_original_lang": "Biologie",
      "original_question_num": 1,
      "question": "In de afbeelding zijn onder andere enkele orgaanstelsels schematisch weergegeven. Drie orgaanstelsels zijn: het geraamte, het voortplantingsstelsel en het zenuwstelsel. Van welke twee orgaanstelsels is een deel in de afbeelding te zien?",
      "options": [
          "van het geraamte en van het voortplantingsstelsel",
          "van het geraamte en van het zenuwstelsel",
          "van het voortplantingsstelsel en van het zenuwstelsel",
          "van het zenuwstelsel en een ander stelsel"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "image_png": "VMBO-BB_Biologie_2009_I_page_1_Picture_7.png",
      "image_information": "essential",
      "image_type": "diagram",
      "parallel_question_id": null
  }

Copyright

The rights of these exams belong to the State of The Netherlands. Please refer to their copyright statement for more information.

References

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{zhang2024dutch,
    title={Multimodal Multiple Choice Questions of the Dutch Central Exam 1999-2024},
    author={Zhang, Mike},
    year={2025},
    url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/jjzha/dutch-central-exam-mcq-multimodal-subset},
    note={Accessed: 2025-02-17}
}

Disclaimer

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.