ERI and Growth and Development Test

pinkiepie_RN · May 6, 2008

Hi to all, I am a nursing student who has just finished my final exam on Nursing 211/maternal/child/pediatrics. We have to pass an ERI Growth and Development test to be able to move on to the next semester. I have taken this test 3 times and each time I take it, my grade is lower. There are audio coaching materials on each level that we can listen to but it seems that each time I listen to the audio and re-take the test, I do worse. Most of the questions are related to the appropriate play for the developmental age of the child. I am using the books and every book I can find on Erikson and Piaget. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions would be great. For some reason, I can't grasp this. I think it's because ERI has a way with their test. Does anyone know of any practice free tests that could maybe guide me? I had good grades in my class but without this, I will not be able to finish my last class/semester and it is really getting me down. We are able to take this test as many times as it takes but this is awful.

How often are you taking this test? It may be that you're stressing out more and more about it each consecutive time you take the test. I took the Growth and Development ERI in Fundamentals last semester and passed without really studying. Maybe you're getting caught up on how the questions are being phrased. ERIworld.com has practice tests for everyone on their website; have you tried them? How close to passing/failing are you? Have you read the breakdown of what you need to improve on?

I wish you the very best of luck. I feel your pain in not passing an ERI on the first try...I have to retake the Med-Surg one soon because I got a 58 and 62 is passing!

COLPN · May 6, 2008

My suggestion is to print out the detailed report and go down each topic and look it up. The detailed report basically touches on every answer you got wrong. If it was on a previous report and not on another it means you got the question right originally or vice versa......Or you can do what some students do in our class and take it as a group!!

moomoo111 · May 8, 2008

Well I took it a fourth time and I did just that. I printed out to see what I needed help on. They let me take it again right away and I passed with a real high score. Thank you so much. The only problem I had with ERI is the books that they used for this test did not help. I read two books and went by what the book said and made awful scores. When I went back to what my fundamentals book said, I passed. I don't know but we have a representative in our class that is taking this to the nursing department and ask that they find another company to use. She has tons of emails from this web site on the negatives of ERI and hopefully it will help. I think it's just a money making deal but the NCLEX study guides don't have questions like ERI. It got down to just finally guessing on some of them. Our instructor finally took it to see why so many were failing it and she failed it also. What does that tell you?:uhoh21:

ichibanjohn · Nov 12, 2008

Hi to all, I am a nursing student who has just finished my final exam on Nursing 211/maternal/child/pediatrics. We have to pass an ERI Growth and Development test to be able to move on to the next semester. I have taken this test 3 times and each time I take it, my grade is lower. There are audio coaching materials on each level that we can listen to but it seems that each time I listen to the audio and re-take the test, I do worse. Most of the questions are related to the appropriate play for the developmental age of the child. I am using the books and every book I can find on Erikson and Piaget. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions would be great. For some reason, I can't grasp this. I think it's because ERI has a way with their test. Does anyone know of any practice free tests that could maybe guide me? I had good grades in my class but without this, I will not be able to finish my last class/semester and it is really getting me down. We are able to take this test as many times as it takes but this is awful.

Yeah we get to take it as many times as we want. This totally skews the average. The questions are passed down to the lucky socialites who get to memorize them from upper classmen.