If your teacher gets her tests directly off the Internet...

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And you happen to stumble across the test bank while correcting a test, would you study the tests for future tests? There was a story about a professor accusing 200 students of cheating for this. Everyone I know seems to think its ok, the majority of the class knows about this resource. What are y'all's thoughts?

Finding $5000 dollars in a patients belongings and finding the test bank online or questions that the professor may have used online is not the same,...you are comparing apples to oranges..Returnignt he money is the Ethical thing to do...as for the professor being lazy and using the internet is the lack fo the professors effort in the class..as students we dont only se the book to study...becsue we all elarn differently..it is the same as using someone elses ntoes who consistently scores above average in class. will that be cheating..NOT...

I ahvent met anyone who compelted their Nrusing Classes and was ready to take the NCLEX the next day..at the end fo the day the school only take syou so far with the amount of information in the curriculm their is no way to really study all the concepts and be proficient on it..that is why ALL student usally atke 3 weeks + to study just for the exam..

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My instructor last quarter told us to buy the Lewis study guide. She then used the questions on the tests. Are we cheating? I think if it is from a published source (internet or otherwise), then it is fair game. If it is from IStealTests.com that is another issue. Think about it. "Class you may not use Saunders, Lewis, ATI or NCLEX for dummies because there is a possibility that i might use a question from it and that would make you a cheater." Practicing NCLEX questions is a huge predictor of who will pass NCLEX. It is not appropriate to limit the playing field due to instructor laziness.

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SOOOOOO agree with you Grownuprosie...

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

Where are these questions online? Are they stored in some 'private' files of the instructor that someone hacked? In that case, definitely cheating.

On the other hand, if the questions are in some type of public forum online (such as a study guide site) then they are fair game...and it is quite foolish for the instructor to keep using these questions when he/she knows that students have free access to the questions on the exam. On a side note, don't limit your studying to these questions. It will significantly hinder your mastery of the subject and will hurt you in the future (i.e. for the NCLEX).

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Specializes in Med-Surg/urology.
My instructor last quarter told us to buy the Lewis study guide.

A well published study guide is one thing. They recommended us to buy the study guide for our med-surg book as well (we used Black & Hawks). The questions in the guide were NOT NCLEX style. But there were people in our program that searched for the instructor test bank on the internet & bought it. They then made copies & tried to sell it to others in the program. Well, the dean caught on to them & every one involved in said "scheme" was dismissed from the program. I think having a test bank is cheating, just my 2 cents.

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I agree with you, Nurse2bKimberly. I think the question here is, are we talking study guide published for student use or private instructor content. There seams to be a clear concensus on both. I have seen the term "test bank" used for both, so i dont want to assume.

OP, wanna weigh in?

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

In my opinion, if someone gets the actual bank of questions (not the study guide/book that contains potential questions), then it would be cheating to use them to "study." If you have a test prep book that the instructor happens to use to create exams, that is just the way it is...study away.

Sidebar...I would question the value of my education and the intelligence/worth of my professor if he/she knew that students had "the test bank" and still chose to use questions from it for an exam.

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psu_213, you would be surprised how many people still failed her class even though many test questions came right out of the study guide.

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