Unusual test policies

lisamc1RN, LPN · May 26, 2004

I have been out of school for a long time, but I have never heard of that. It would make me very uneasy, I think, to count on a "group" score to raise my grade. Does a student get docked for group work? As for the reviewing of questions, I'm assuming that they do this to make sure they are asking questions in a fair and understandable way?

Cherish · May 26, 2004

Is your program new? If so your class could be the guinea pigs, I would hate that honestly. My grade should be mine no one elses.

manna, BSN, RN · May 26, 2004

Nope, it's been around for years. Even got sued back in the early 80's for gender discrimination (it's a public university founded for women, and didn't admit men at the time. A man was denied admission into the nursing program and sued. If you do a google search you can read about it).

It's not really a problem. If the group doesn't do well on the test, then you don't actually lose any points, just gain points if the group does well. And I think that the majority of our class will be pretty studious - it's an intense program and I don't think anyone would last otherwise.

jemommyRN · May 26, 2004

I like the sound of it. It's a "free" chance to raise the score on my test. Also, I like the fact that the questions are debatable because in nursing school I heard that there is alot of "WTF" questions on the test.

icesk8ie · May 27, 2004

In my program, for the first year, we had the opportunity to retake the final with a partner. If you raised your grade by one grade level, you got a point. If you raised it two grade levels, you got two points. It helped several people be able to stay in the class. Also, if quite a few people missed a question (the teachers ran stats for every question), the question was reviewed and was either thrown out or a couple answers were deemed "right". It was good because a few instructors were good with the "WTF" questions.

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klone, MSN, RN · May 27, 2004

I like the sound of it. It's a "free" chance to raise the score on my test. Also, I like the fact that the questions are debatable because in nursing school I heard that there is alot of "WTF" questions on the test.

I agree! Your grade isn't determined by the group thing, it's determined by your individual test. Think of the group thing as extra credit. It could be their way of seeing how well you work as a group.

summ68 · May 27, 2004

We also did that for nursing 2. You could get up to two extra points above your grade. I liked it for two reasons one you had an idea on how you did on the test and second you could get 4 wrong out of 40 and two extra points and you got an A.

Carolanne · May 27, 2004

We did the exact same thing in med surg 2. We all got tired of taking the test twice, but the extra couple of points made a difference in a lot of our averages!

southernchickrn · May 27, 2004

Kind of sounds similar to my psych class. We all took the same tests and then when we handed in our test we picked a number. That number was the group that we were in for out case study. Each group got a separate case study. We couldn't use books or notes, just each other to answer the questions, and no conversing with the other groups! We got a grade for our case study and a grade for our test. Each person in the group got the same grade for the case study. So in essence it was a chance to catch up if you did rotten on the test. Also a lot of teachers would throw out questions if the material was not lectured on and they would give credit for a question if it had two right answers. Sometimes they would have to repost test grades after analyzing test questions, especially if three different teachers wrote test questions (we have a lot of team teaching where I go to school. Teachers would teach on certain topics that a test covered. For example, one would teach diabetes, another on respiratory, etc.

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RNNoMore · May 28, 2004

That doesn't sound too bad, as you can't lose - but I just found out that in some of my courses, some tests are assigned to small groups of students,and the GROUP score counts as everyone's personal score and so goes toward both your final grade & GPA. I am NOT happy about that to say the least :angryfire

My husband has found similar policies with his Master's degree in Computer Science that he is going to start in July.

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Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · May 28, 2004

Group testing? We had that a few times, but we were given the option to bow out of it, thank goodness. I always noticed at least one group of five that had two people that didn't study, but always said "ah well, group testing guarentees me a good grade because the others study". :rolleyes:

I never have taken a group test. I studied for me.