Moonlight MCQA - Arabic Generalist

$24–30/hrrate as listed

Write original general-knowledge multiple-choice questions in Arabic — ten options each, plus a worked solution — for an AI evaluation dataset. Fully remote and asynchronous, with observed pay in the $24.26–29.65/hr range.

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What the work involves

You draft exam-style multiple-choice questions in Modern Standard Arabic, pulled from areas you can actually defend: your degree subject, your professional field, and general knowledge grounded in Arabic-language sources. Each item needs ten answer options — one defensibly correct, nine distractors that are plausible enough to be tempting but wrong for a reason you can articulate — plus a written solution that walks through why the key holds and why the near-misses fail.

The difficulty target is a model that already answers easy questions correctly. That means most of your effort goes into distractor craft and into avoiding the failure modes reviewers reject: ambiguous keys, two arguably-correct options, questions answerable by elimination or surface pattern-matching, and items that are really translated English trivia rather than content a well-educated Arabic speaker would recognize as native. Expect revision requests on early batches while you calibrate.

What the platform screens for

Verifiable credentials: master's or PhD, and 2–6 years of professional experience the screen can probe in specifics.
Native-level Arabic plus education or residence in an Arabic-speaking country — you'll be asked about register, dialect handling, and terminology choices.
Domain depth under follow-up: the AI interviewer pushes past your first answer to see whether the expertise is real.
Evaluation judgment: whether you can explain what makes a distractor good, and when a question is unsalvageable.

Logistics

Remote, asynchronous, no fixed shifts. Work is assigned in batches with deadlines rather than scheduled hours; contributors commonly commit 10–20 hours per week, though volume varies with project demand. Pay is hourly within the observed band above — rates depend on assessed expertise and are not guaranteed. Some projects pay per accepted item instead, so read your specific assignment terms.

What they look for

Native-level Modern Standard Arabic writing
Master's or PhD in any field
2–6 years professional experience in your domain
Education or residence in an Arabic-speaking country
Exam or assessment item-writing experience (preferred)
Clear technical writing for worked solutions

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you hold a master's degree or PhD?
Graduate degree · required
Do you have at least 2 years of professional experience after earning your highest degree?
Years of professional experience · required
Is Arabic your native language?
Native Arabic fluency · required
Are you currently living in or are you originally from an Arabic-speaking country?
Arabic-speaking residency · required

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Included with this listing

Interview prep — 11 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether you understand exam-question pedagogy—balancing difficulty, plausibility of wrong answers, and clarity—and can execute it in Arabic without code-switching or awkward phrasing.
A strong answer: A strong answer names a specific knowledge domain (e.g., Islamic history, chemistry), describes choosing a fact or concept that requires genuine understanding (not trivia or definition-recall alone), explains how the ten options would be graded by difficulty and cognitive distance from the correct answer, and mentions testing the phrasing for ambiguity in Arabic.
Where people lose it: Candidates who describe the question as a simple translation task, treat all distractors as equally implausible, or skip discussion of how Arabic grammar and idiom shape whether an option reads naturally—miss the pedagogical craft this role demands.