Mad at myself- changing answers on exams

[JJL618, RN]

This is probably going to sound crazy because I've made A's on every test I've taken this semester so far, but I get irritated and mad at myself after each one. After I look back at the correct answer, I think to myself I should have got that right. Then the test yesterday, I narrowed one question down to two possible answers. I picked one I thought was right and moved on. Well last week I learned ( I always thought we couldn't go back) that we could go back before we submit our exam to double check, so guess what I did? I went back and started over thinking it, and I changed my answer. What I'm really mad at is I picked one of the answers that wasn't on the two that I narrowed it down to initially. And looking back that answer doesn't sound smart. Don't know why it looked so inticing during the exam.

And then I picked pulse ox measures venous saturation instead of arterial. To be fare I knew it measured oxygen saturation, but I didn't pay any attention to whether it was arterial or venous, but I should still have got that one right, also.

I think that sometimes it helps to get a question wrong because you will never forget it again. But I still can't help but be irritated at myself.

Moral of the story, don't change answers!! Sorry just had to rant a bit.

[kai_altair]

Lol, same thing happened to me on my first couple of exams in Anatomy. But I decided to just go with my gut feeling, as it's usually right. I'm getting better scores now, go figure!

[chare]

Never, never, never change your first answer, unless you find something in a subsequent question that provides additional information to better answer the question.

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

This was a huge problem for me in Chemistry! I would answer the question and go back and "review", and inevitably change answers. I failed one of my tests, and every single question that I got wrong I had initially chosen the correct answer. I'll never do it again.

[neogirl]

You have to figure out if you are one of those people who can change their answer and usually end up right or if you change it to incorrect. For me, I usually change from incorrect to correct, but I know others are not that way. To thine own self be true.