Does your school allow you to keep your tests?

[DisneybearRN]

I find my Nursing classes so frustrating because we are not allowed to keep our scored test but only look at it briefly. We are not even allowed to make notes to ourselves on the questions that we missed. I think this is crazy as the test is a great indicator or what your weaknesses are. We can make an appointment to "visit our test", but too me it seems crazy and there is no good rationale for not allowing me to keep my test. How does your school work?

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

No, I wasn't allowed to keep my test, nor were we allowed to write down the questions we missed, we could put the subject of the question down but not the exact question.

And there is a good rationale for not allowing students to keep their tests or write exact questions down..which is this..sadly people aren't all honest..too many times students have sold tests, given them away to future students who will be taking the tests, etc. The test banks are only so big and teachers want to make sure the integrity of the tests aren't compromised. A few rotten apples have spoiled it for all of us honest people.

**wanted to add** The school kept our test answer sheets for the semester. After the final exams, If someone failed a class, the teachers would pull that students tests and review to make sure nothing was marked wrong that was correct. That was to make sure that the student in fact did fail and that they were not given a lower grade than they actually got. (our tests were hand corrected) Depending on how long posting of final exam grades were posted, if someone failed a class or not.

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

Depends on the teacher. Some have left the test up online for a given amount of time so we could review. With others we never had the opportunity to review, especially final exams when we never saw the instructor again.

[semester1kid]

The only people at our school who are allowed to review (look at) the test after the fact are students who failed. Otherwise it's a guessing game - typically after an exam, while we're all on break, we'll go through a 'brainstorming' session of trying to remember want was on the test...with only limited luck:D

[caliotter3]

In some classes we may have gone over the tests, but not in all of them. And none of them allowed us to keep our tests or to write down questions.

[Rednights]

We are not allowed to keep them, obviously they like to keep a nice question bank and not be forced to make new ones up every year.

[Boog'sCRRN246, RN]

We don't get to keep our tests...we don't even have test reviews. We can schedule an appt to go over our test if we didn't do well, but even then we don't get to touch the test. The instructor gives us an idea of what areas we need to work on, but doesn't tell us the exact question.

[tiffanyleigh0212]

We don't get to keep our tests either. We have our actual test and a scan tron, we are encouraged to write all over the test and mark our answers on the actual test because it's ours, just not ours to keep. After the test (we have 1 hr) the instructors take up the scan trons, then we have our actual test and they do a quick run through and tell all the answers. No discussion of the answers, just what's right, so we don't have to wait around wondering. Then after wards they schedule an exam review for anyone who wants to look over the test in depth to see why they missed what they missed. Exam review is optional, unless you fail. If you fail you HAVE to go. They said the reason we can't keep our tests is because they spend a lot of time making up the test and the questions and some people aren't honest and tell underclassmen.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Nope. They are shredded after review of them, which is done immediately after the test is given, provided nobody was absent. Big time cheating goes on in nursing school. We are also in a room with cameras being filmed during test taking.

[Anne36, LPN]

Nope, not in the nursing program, and not in the pre-req's either.

What you described was exactly like my Microbiology class. Only she never gave us our exams back in class and never went over them one time. The only way you could see the exam at all was to make an appointment so you could see if for 5 minutes and see where you went wrong.

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

We do not get to keep ours. It is even written into the school handbook that if you are caught with an old test you are expelled for cheating. We can schedule an appointment to meet with the instructor to review the test but thats it.

[DisneybearRN]

Well I guess my school is not alone in not letting us have the tests. I think it is crazy considering what I pay for nursing school that they can't just make different test for each class. I don't see why nursing instructors should get off making new ones like the rest of academia! My professor does not use a test bank, but makes up her own, so using up all the questions in no excuse. I think it is ridiculous.