How do you ace tests?

I had an instructor who, for the first test, came around and "removed" the erasers from our pencils. She was that emphatic about us not changing our answers! You could do what a girl in my class does - doesn't work, studies almost 24-7, and gets up at 2:30am on test days (our class starts at 1pm) to study some more. I believe she's gotten an A on all 3 tests we've taken.

Somethingcreative: How on earth do you have time to do all of this? I NEVER did that much reading in any course I ever took ever in my life. Are you a fast reader?

IME, at least, more studying doesn't necessarily translate into a better grade on the test. I think that in nursing school, especially, test taking skills count for more than knowledge. I mean, I do study a LOT for nursing tests, but the questions I get wrong rarely come down to lack of knowledge--it has to do with not reading or interpreting the question correctly.

Take the time to really think through the question, and read each answer choice carefully. I can't tell you how many times I got questions wrong because I missed out one crucial word in a question or word choice. Also, if two answer chioces sound similar to each other, you can eliminate them both and choose the one that's opposite to them.

Good luck!

That would tick me off. Maybe I'm the odd one out, but when I change answers, I'm almost always changing it to a correct one. I've also made mistakes on bubble sheets that I catch when I check through my answers.

To OP: just stop changing your answers. It's clearly not a working strategy for you, so just stop. Use the logic that you use to figure out the answers to reason yourself out of changing the answers. If writing yourself reminders on the top of the test to not change your answers seems like a good idea to you, do it.