How much time per test question?

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How much time per test question?

I just started to teach at a local community college and have the first test scheduled this week. I was taught to offer the students one minute per test question but some are complaining that this isn't long enough (of course I am giving them a 10 minute break after).

Just wondering, how much time should I give them for each test question?

Any words of wisdom to share?

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I do my best t keep exams to 50 questions, and allow the exam takers 80 minutes to complete. The 80 minutes is figured out to be about 1 1/2 minutes per question. That, and I do not want to be there on exam days watching them take an exam all day.

Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

We never had a time limit per question. Each test we had 90 minutes.. Those that finished early went outside, eat, etc and we had a set time to be back in class. For our math quiz we had like 30 minutes for 10 questions...

I'm not an educator (I'm in an MSN program) but at our school we were given 1 minute per question from Day 1.

Our first test we were given 10 extra minutes, the second one, we were given five extra minutes.

The rationale: The NCLEX timing is based on one minute per question, therefore, they tested us on this standard. If you couldn't meet this standard in school, you were not going to do well on the NCLEX if you had to finish all of the questions.

The time limit was intimidating at first, but I learned if I was prepared, I could complete the test in half the time.

We were given additional time on our fluid and electrolyte test, because the entire test had many calculations and you would never encounter this many on an NCLEX.

Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

The rationale: The NCLEX timing is based on one minute per question, therefore, they tested us on this standard. If you couldn't meet this standard in school, you were not going to do well on the NCLEX if you had to finish all of the questions.

That is not correct, you have 6 hours for the RN NCLEX and the max of 265 questions..There is no time limit per question on NCLEX

Commenting 4 years late LOL 

Hey, Vishal Gaur here, from India. READ TILL THE END

In schools and colleges we get around 3 hours in final examination (EXAM OF THE YEAR) in general, depends, some are 2 hours 30 minutes and some are 1 hour 30 minutes. All depends on total number of marks.

Now, 3 hours = 100 MARKS Question paper

Given that Questions are subjective types. The questions comprise of World's toughest questions esp. when it comes to Mathematics and the total number of questions are like 40-50 in standard format. Top scorer usually scores a 100/100 and if not, somewhere in between 95/100 and 99/100.

Lowest scorers range from anywhere 0 to 5.

MUST READ BELOW

Now, MCQ, MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. Whose answers are already provided with the options.

They are generally not associated in schools and colleges as we push students to solve the whole question but for Government job MCQ is must to crack related to various technical and non technical examinations in various fields.

MCQ pattern.

Preliminary test:

100 questions

Time: 60 minutes

is it less? No!

students generally who score less than 82/100 are considered as FAIL and 82 and above as pass (depending on percentile that is calculated from the score of TOPPER and then the number of candidates required for the job opening). Number of candidates required is usually less and that causes 80+ marks to be a compulsion if you need a job.

1 correct answer = 1 mark

1 incorrect = -0.25 mark

students who clear this exam do sit in Mains exam or second round for further filtration

200 questions=120 minutes

questions are of high standard and person who scored 98/100 with 0 incorrect and 98 correct answers within 60 minutes manages to score 130 correct within 120 minutes (given that incorrect are 0, if not, number of correct answers increases and it usually does).

SO THE TIME YOU'RE PROVIDING IS ALMOST SIX (6) TIMES THAN REQUIRED AS PER INDIAN STANDARDS.

I'm not an educator but have recently been a student.

A 50 question test was alloted 60 minutes for us to complete.

Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

At my school we allow 60 minutes for a 50 question test.

Specializes in Occ. Hlth, Education, ICU, Med-Surg.

my facility allots 1.5 minutes per question...this is per policy

Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

In my course I allow 75 minutes for a 50-item multiple choice exam.

Are all your questions on onè page or is there one question per page?

Specializes in pediatrics, ed, public health.

Here is what my mentor (professor of nursing at another campus wrote)...

The standard is a minute per question but if they are higher level questions or ones that take lots of critical thinking like math or multiple thinking steps. I would have 3 minutes for those type. I think the BRN is much more generous with

Time than we are. I admit to leaning towards more time. So. No standard answer. Each exam should be considered individually.

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