Does your nursing school offer test review

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Specializes in Home Health.

I'm a long ago graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing. We had a wonderful education at the time, and included test review with rationales for answers to questions.

I understand students are no longer offered test reviews with rationales for answers to questions on the tests. This is an excellent teaching tool. I don't understand why this is no longer in practice. Oh, and students are given the number of the question they an answer wrong for, but they are not given the question (ex: you got question 3, 9, 21 wrong). Are students supposed to figure out what the question was??? I am beginning to feel that there is a certain degree of neglect with this teaching process.

Does anyone else attend a nursing school that does not offer test review?

I am really disappointed in Charity-Delgado Nursing School. I expect the education process will be reflected in lower numbers of NCLEX pass rates. Not a good thing.

Thanks for reading. Would love some responses.

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My school does offer test reviews. Immediately following a test, the instructors collect the scantrons and we are allowed to keep the test booklet while the correct answers are given. This gives us, as students, the opportunity to write rationales on why/how we answered a question a certain way. We then turn in our test booklets for review by the instructor. Not all schools do this, however. Our school writes new questions for every test based on content presented so this may be a reason why they feel it is okay to do test reviews.

I looked into your school's NCLEX pass rate and it is 82%. While not amazing, it is a decent score for a school to have.

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For my program, teachers give you a copy of the test with correct answers bolded after you turn in your scantron. Some offered rationales, while others did not. If you stayed after school for office hours then you could get your graded scantron back and a copy of the answer key to understand where you went wrong.

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Specializes in Oncology, OCN.

Some of my classes have exam reviews where the instructor will go over rationals and sometimes we can even argue points back for some answers. I find it very helpful knowing why the right answer is the right answer on some of the tricky questions. I'm in an accelerated program and we take all our exams outside of class time online. We always get a score immediately as we submit, sometimes we get to see which questions we missed but not the answers, other times just a score. If the instructor doesn't go over the exams the next class or offer a review session outside of class you can usually go see them during office hours to review the exam if you want.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

I attended in the early 2000s, and next day -- i.e. after the instructors had time to grade the exam -- we reviewed the exam as a class. It definitely helped to solidify the information. How is a student able to correct misconceptions if they don't even know what those misconceptions are?

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We take all of our tests online (in class) and you can see what you missed immediately. After the grades are posted, the instructors encourage you to meet with them to go over your exam and what you missed.

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We take all of our tests online (in class) and you can see what you missed immediately. After the grades are posted, the instructors encourage you to meet with them to go over your exam and what you missed.

I found that this is becoming more of the norm - especially reviewing the exam with the instructor to protect the integrity of the exam and questions that may be used with future cohorts.

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We also take all of our tests on computers, but in the testing center, not in class. At the end, you get a report that shows you which objectives you missed. If you don't pass the test, you meet with the instructor for remediation (but not on the same day you took the test). You're expected to bring your notes and show how you've prepared to do better the next time, and she will talk to you about what you missed and clarify any concepts. If you fail the test a second time, you remediate again, but you already have to re-register for the class. You now have two more chances to remediate. If you fail both of those, you're dismissed from the program, unfortunately. Our NCLEX pass rate is 96%.

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I go to nursing school in Canada, and at my school we are not allowed to review tests. This doesn't make sense to me since in my previous degree (Health science) we were always allowed to go in after and see our exams and discuss questions with our professors. Our NCLEX pass rate is still good I believe, but I don't understand the rationale behind it...other than they tend to reuse exam questions from term to term so maybe they don't want students sharing answers with those in lower years.

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Not really. We get our tests back, and go into a board room where the instructor hands out "copies" of the exam with the correct answers circled. If you have a question she will answer it, but as far as going over questions, giving rationals, then that is a big no. This is one of the main issues I have with my school and how they do things here.

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