diff --git a/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs b/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs
index 13ac6ec..e46b033 100644
--- a/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs
+++ b/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs
@@ -100,9 +100,13 @@ specParser = GEvalSpecification
     <> showDefault
     <> metavar "INPUT"
     <> help "The name of the file with the input (applicable only for some metrics)" )
-  <*> metricReader
+  <*> ((flip fromMaybe) <$> altMetricReader <*> metricReader)
   <*> optional precisionArgParser
 
+sel :: Maybe Metric -> Metric -> Metric
+sel Nothing m = m
+sel (Just m) _ = m
+
 metricReader :: Parser Metric
 metricReader = option auto
                ( long "metric"
@@ -112,6 +116,13 @@ metricReader = option auto
                  <> metavar "METRIC"
                  <> help "Metric to be used - RMSE, MSE, Accuracy, LogLoss, Likelihood, F-measure (specify as F1, F2, F0.25, etc.), MAP, BLEU, NMI, ClippEU, LogLossHashed, LikelihoodHashed, BIO-F1, BIO-F1-Labels or CharMatch" )
 
+altMetricReader :: Parser (Maybe Metric)
+altMetricReader = optional $ option auto
+               ( long "alt-metric"
+                 <> short 'a'
+                 <> metavar "METRIC"
+                 <> help "Alternative metric (overrides --metric option)" )
+
 runGEval :: [String] -> IO (Either (ParserResult GEvalOptions) (Maybe MetricValue))
 runGEval args = do
   ret <- runGEvalGetOptions args
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
index 644e8e1..0474ae2 100644
--- a/test/Spec.hs
+++ b/test/Spec.hs
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ main = hspec $ do
     it "test sorting" $ do
       results <- runLineByLineGeneralized FirstTheWorst sampleChallenge Data.Conduit.List.consume
       Prelude.head (Prelude.map (\(LineRecord inp _ _ _ _) -> inp) results) `shouldBe` "baq"
+  describe "handle --alt-metric option" $ do
+    it "accuracy instead of likelihood" $ do
+      runGEvalTestExtraOptions ["--alt-metric", "Accuracy"] "likelihood-simple" `shouldReturnAlmost` 0.75
 
 
 neverMatch :: Char -> Int -> Bool
@@ -309,11 +312,13 @@ testMatchFun _ _ = False
 extractVal :: (Either (ParserResult GEvalOptions) (Maybe MetricValue)) -> IO MetricValue
 extractVal (Right (Just val)) = return val
 
-runGEvalTest testName = (runGEval [
+runGEvalTest = runGEvalTestExtraOptions []
+
+runGEvalTestExtraOptions extraOptions testName = (runGEval ([
   "--expected-directory",
   "test/" ++ testName ++ "/" ++ testName,
   "--out-directory",
-  "test/" ++ testName ++ "/" ++ testName ++ "-solution"]) >>= extractVal
+  "test/" ++ testName ++ "/" ++ testName ++ "-solution"] ++ extraOptions)) >>= extractVal
 
 extractMetric :: String -> IO (Maybe Metric)
 extractMetric testName = do