Do you get Study Guides before midterms and finals ? my teacher doesnt believe in that 😫

[mariawong]

Hi guys so here we are in AP 2 with this teacher that does not give us a study guide before exams . we have to KNOW EVERYTHING !! and if you don't know we need to figure it out because he said we are nurses and if we don't know we shouldn't pass his class . Do you guys get study guides before exams or not ? does that even exist in nursing school ?

[chakra_'19]

Do you receive outlines? You could make that into a study guide. If not outline your notes or key points in your book. I had an accelerated biology class where my professor didn't do outlines or study guides just powerpoints so I read the chapters and used the powerpoints to fill in/summerize and Id outline that way. Sounds tedious but I learned biology almost completely throughly that way, not just for tests either lol

[mariawong]

Do you receive outlines? You could make that into a study guide. If not outline your notes or key points in your book. I had an accelerated biology class where my professor didn't do outlines or study guides just powerpoints so I read the chapters and used the powerpoints to fill in/summerize and Id outline that way. Sounds tedious but I learned biology almost completely throughly that way not just for tests either lol[/quote']

we get power points of 100 slides each time and no he does not go by the book we actually dont use the book at ALL , so i record the lectures and do my study quides with that ,,, im not struggling i just wanted to know if everyone gets study guides LOL

[studentbear, CNA]

I'm in my first semester of my nursing program and it varies professor to professor on who gives out study guides. Our health assessment professor (except for the final) and research professors don't give study guides. The fundamentals professor gives a study guide that tells us how many questions from each chapter, but we still have to study everything from those chapters (what she has verbally said, what's been in powerpoint, and in the text.) The pathophysiology professor gives us what I consider a "real" study guide (lots of specific questions.)

I like to make study guides using the powerpoint slides as an outline and then fill it in with everything that was covered.

[ZombieRain]

I've read through the thread, but I'm confused... in the context of this conversation, what is a study guide? It sounds the question being asked is how much of exams, how many questions from exams, are being handed out by a professor.

Is this a thing?

[KrCmommy522, BSN, RN]

Hello! It depends on the professor. Some give us study guides, some don't. I have some professors that give us "break downs" of exams. So it will have a list of the chapters that will be on the exam, and about how many questions from each chapter. But even that isn't always right, sometimes there are more questions from a chapter than was on the break down. I have some that give us great study guides, where if you do the study guide you will know everything you need to know to pass the test. However, you aren't always going to get a study guide. I had one class, where the instructor only gave us a few bullet points for an exam. I studied like I do for every test, whether I have a study guide or not - study each chapter that we covered a little bit each day up until the exam - and I did great. However, the majorit of students in the class failed. Most of them went to the dean and complained and the next exam we had a detailed study guide that if you did it there was no way you couldn't pass. I didn't like that. I feel its up to the teacher and if the teacher decides to give you a great study guide that's great, but if not it still falls on you to study the material. Your instructor lectured and taught you. Then it's your responsibility to go over the chapters that were covered and learn the material for the exam. Your instructor isn't going to be able to lecture on each and everything from each chapter covered. Of course, hopefully your teacher will discuss the important points from the chapters. However, there are going to be times when you will find something on the exam that your teacher didn't lecture about, but I bet you it was in the chapters that were covered! You aren't going to have a study guide and know what you need to study for the NCLEX, so why should instructors be required to do the same for exams while you are in school? My suggestion is to be happy when you get study guides, but learn how to study on your own without them. You aren't going to always get them and you need to know how to study on your own without them and be able to pass!

[MiladyMalarkey, ASN, BSN]

With my school instructors a traditional study guide being given out was completely dependent on the teaching style of the professor. My A&P 1 instructor gave out study guides for everything, my A&P 2 instructor did not. You bet your rear I studied everything that second instructor went over in lecture, power point and she had us do for homework assignments. That was not a traditional study guide, but I'd say all the material she taught with was what guided me into knowing what we needed to study.

[shasta13]

I'm a "seasoned" student and I do not get study guides, nor do I ever expect them. Receiving study guides definitely wasn't the norm for me when I was in college in the 90s, but it seems to be expected now. I hear from several students in my classes, "Will there be a study guide?" All of my professors have been kind enough to share their notes prior to lecture; I use those, expand upon them with my own notes during lecture, and form my own study guide.