When you can't review tests

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Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

I'm taking a class that has a no-review policy on tests. So unless you get 100s on each one, you can't know what you got wrong and what you got right. The teacher says it's so we can't give answers to other students, but seriously, who uses the same test every semester? Isn't that what test banks are for?

Do you get to look at or at least review tests after everyone has taken them? If not, how do you deal with questions you missed? If X% of the class misses a question, she'll discuss it, but that's it.

I need to know what I don't know, or I can't tell what I need to improve on. I need feedback and a raw score doesn't give me enough. Did I miss the SATA questions? Was I off on meds? How can I study with no information on what I missed?

Fie and bah, I say.

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Specializes in Infusion.

Yes, we get to look at the tests and go over the whole thing. We walk out with our separate page of math questions and turn the test and answer sheet back in. No writing instruments can be used and we aren't supposed to discuss anything but we usually can't keep our mouths shut.

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I knoooow this is so frustrating. I just recently took a test and I have no idea which problems I missed so as you said, I dont know what I need to work on. OUr instructor did say we could meet in her office to discuss concepts we missed- so maybe yours would do the same for you if you made the effort? You might try asking.

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Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

I wish. It's online and she's a few hours away.

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Our instructor will go over the test as a whole with the class, but we will then have to meet with her individually to review our specific test.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

I agree my school does that as well and I think it's very dumb. On top of it we have cimmulitive finals so how can you study when you don't even know your strong and weak points. I mean its nice to say you should just study for everything but who has time for that?

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We have a class review after each exam. Its mandatory that you meet with your advisor if you don't pass so you can get a more detailed review, but anyone can meet with their advisor to go over the exam. That sucks that you can't review anything. Even if I get an A on my exam, I still stay for the review to see what I got wrong.

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Specializes in 10.

The teacher allows us to look at our tests, goes over them with the entire class, we can take notes on a separate peice of paper, but we must give the tests back. The teacher actually counts them and checks your name off to make sure EACH person has given the test back. One student got dismissed for "academic dishonesty", because they did not return the test. They are serious about tests.:eek:

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It's part of the "RN instructor job security" plan:

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

It is a crying shame because learning theory states that high-need achievers learn best with immediate feedback. What a joke!!

:nurse: :nurse:

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i must be weird. i always know which questions i missed, because on the tests i know the ones that i am unsure of. i do have an a in nursing school, the bare minimum it takes, a 92, so i do miss questions.

do you remember questions you were unsure of?

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To put this in better perspective:

Where may I ask do you go, and what program? How many hours per week do you work? Are you living on your own or with your parents? How many average hours per night do you sleep? What is your class average?

Our test bank has 10% nullified no matter if you got it right or not. Then another 10% can be nullified PER STUDENT only.

i.e. ambiguous questions. If you do not have ambiguous questions, then this thread may not concern you.

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Ugh I hate when we are unable to review exams! (Although it does not happen often). Most professors give the exam, and post the grade on Blackboard (some are really great and have them up by that afternoon/night, others take up to several days to post). We don't ever go over the exams as a class. Very rarely, we are given our exams back during the next week's class time, but it's "individual review time".

Most professors say that we are allowed to visit their office during a specific time to look at the answer keys, or ask that we contact them to set up a specific time to actually go over the answers with them.

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