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This reminds me of an infamous chemistry exam that no longer existed at my college by the time I got there but had passed into the student lore. For each question, you would first mark your answer (multiple choice, 4 or 5 choices), and then mark a confidence option. These were "high confidence" (5 points if right, -3 if wrong), "low confidence" (3 points if right, 0 if wrong), and "I don't know, give me a point" (1 point regardless of what answer is marked).
This exam was not popular with the students.
Damn, I wish the exams I passed had one of those. Measuring your self-knowledge (and thus training it) is way more valuable than checking whether you memorized the right facts !