Do your instructors provide study guides?

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Just curious to know whether or not your instructors provide study guides, study tips, or a review sheet prior to an exam. If so, do you find them helpful or not?

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Specializes in Cardiac, Rehab.

Some do, some don't. As a class we have come up with some study guides either based on objectives or based on information given from the instructor. Everybody contributes a couple of answers to questions and then everybody benefits. That and study sessions at a local restaurant the afternoon before the test usually gets folks a couple of extra points. But you still have to know your material, you cant get there except by reading the book and reviewing your notes.

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Some do, some don't. As a class we have come up with some study guides either based on objectives or based on information given from the instructor. Everybody contributes a couple of answers to questions and then everybody benefits. That and study sessions at a local restaurant the afternoon before the test usually gets folks a couple of extra points. But you still have to know your material, you cant get there except by reading the book and reviewing your notes.

Thanks for your response. I usually don't depend on anything that an instructor provides prior to a test, unless I feel that it can be helpful in some way. I usually read my chapters, review the PPT, and take my own notes. I was just curious because I had an instructor provide a study guide and then when the test came, not one thing that was on the study guide was on the test (SMH). I personally don't fall for those type of tricks but others in my class did. When this happened my thought was why bother typing anything up and distributing it if it cannot be useful to the student (waste of time). It somewhat seemed like a set up to me.

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A couple of instructors do provide remedial study guides, but basically that is what their lectures and power points are. They take the materials in our various books and narrow it a bit with their lectures. Reading the book with a focus on the material in the power points is generally how I study.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

All they ever told us was the test was going to be over Chapter X. Thats the most we got a lot of times. However with my critical care class, she would break it down to where we would have so many questions over topic X, Y and Z

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Specializes in Infusion.

We had one teacher that would pass out a very straightforward study guide. The rest would give us a few things we should know and more importantly, our thought process. The best advice I got was to think like a nurse and not rely on black and white rules.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.

yeah its called a textbook :(

...i wish the teacher i had for patho was my teacher for all my classes her class notes & study guides ROCKED

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

When I was in school (Bachelor's program), our instructors told us that study guides were a "luxury" and they weren't obligated to give them to us.

What sucked, is studying 200 pages of text and wondering what small details from the text would appear on tests.

Good luck to you- it'll be worth it when you are done:nurse:

Diane, RN

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Everything has been fair game, including information from previous quarters and information that was not covered during lecture. No study guides; however, a couple of instructors were kind enough to inform us that for our final exams all we need to know is the main idea of each chapter.

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Specializes in 10.

Yes, we get a detailed study guide of whatever chapters we are having a test on. They are helpful. If you know what is on the study guide, you will know what is on the test. They are NCLEX type questions, and they want you to be able to apply the information to the situation, thinking like a nurse.

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I have had instructors provide study guides in the past that I found to be very helpful. The guides provided particular areas the students should pay special attention to in addition to the others. One instructor had told us to study the information that is discussed in class to include the PPT and we will be fine, and she was right. Although the test were NCLEX style questions, they all came from the information discussed in class and the PPT's.

On the other hand, I currently have an instructor who states that she is not obligated to provide the class with a study guide and have not done so. We were told that we are responsible for everything on the syllabus (lol).

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I have had instructors provide study guides in the past that I found be very helpful.

Me too, in Pre-nursing. Unfortunately, not in ADN and/or not at my school. I just wish that my class time could be used as study time. Except for clinicals, it has been like a bad dream. Hopefully, my 2nd semester looks better. Its all up to the lead instructor. My last one held the class back with her dementia: and with an iron fist with heavy subjective grading influences/test mistakes.

It really is not 'that' hard. It can be 'made' incredibly hard though with incoherent (1500 page) syllabus, illiterate slides (lumped in thousands of files unorganized), nonsensical classes, and library pc's that have 1/2 G RAM when it takes 1.5G just to run in the network on them. That will be my main goal next semester: to study during class (maybe with earplugs-??).

At least it can not get any worse... in the Twilight Zone.

:nurse::nurse:

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