Multiple choice papers are easy to mark - maybe a sheet with little apertures (there's probably a word for that) is dropped over the paper and you count the amount of ticks that appear in those apertures.
I don't like multiple choice tests, I was an instructor in the Army and took several courses on instruction - and I know framing is not 'the Army' and I've forgotten most of it anyway - but on the MOI (Method of Instruction) courses, several principles were hammered, like 'never ask 50/50 questions' (and I realise there are more than two answers to choose from on this test) and 'never ask questions on practical skills' (and I don't know if any are asked on this test)
In the first case you won't know if the answer is a guess and in the second, describing how it's done doesn't mean you can do it, ever have done or ever intend to. Just ... show me you can do it!
In theory, and theory is fine as the test itself is a theory test, you could get 100% by guessing, the odds would be high but the borderline passes and a few above those will surely have some correct guesses, which will mean that some successful candidates are not actually qualified.
Another problem with tick tests is that you could be pretty sure of an answer and if given no choice would give it, but then when you see the other possible answers, you become unsure.
You either know the answer or you don't, but if asked for it in your own words there may be more than one correct answer and definitely more than one way of giving it, just like there would be more than one incorrect answer, which would be difficult to mark.
I lke the idea of being the only CPF in UK though, or if there are already any, the only MCPF, I could market the pants off that. Then again I could market the pants off the fact that I'm only one of 3 PFGs in the UK, neither abbreviation would mean diddly to my customers unless I wanted to elaborate; for the CPF I would but for the PFG I wouldn't. I could make up my own abbreviation and say I'm the only one ..... I could say I was having a 50% off sale but really wasn't, I could say what I like (I know, I know), that's marketting!
I run a one-to-one framing course a few times a year, no big deal/earner, I enjoy it. But I'm thinking of offering training with a view to taking/passing/preparation for the GCF test and/or any of its advanced modules, but I don't think I should do that without being a GCF/GCF adv myself first.
I might like to offer to do seminars/workshops at FATG or suppliers' events and I know that 'GCF' or 'GCF (adv)' or 'CPF' or 'MCPF' after my name would help my plug to them. So these qualifications are definitely something for me to think about, but not for my own shop/business. We had 126 people through the cash register (we call it a 'till') on Saturday and 83 today, that's sales; not people through the door, or orders.