May have failed my first Exam!

That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Sep 17, 2010

If you failed you failed. I would not go ask to take it again. I would wait to see how you did and then approach the instructor. Maybe set up a meeting with them asking how you should study their material and go over the first test so hopefully you can see your mistakes. Failing a test isnt that bad, heck I failed an entire class. It is the attitude and actions you take afterward.

MKO90 · Sep 17, 2010

Yeah I only get one shot to do this and so I want to do my best and can't believe I probably failed this exam! just is eating me up...I want to do well..

imanursenow · Sep 17, 2010

Don't beat yourself up yet...I bet you did great!! And if you did fail at least now you have a feel for the test format and can Rock the next one! Ask your instructor for a tutoring session, they should be more than happy to help you!! Also if your book came with a study guide utilize it!!

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Sep 17, 2010

I had my first nutrition exam on Tuesday. I really thought I had the material down. About half of the question I know they answer before finishing the question. The other half, not so much. It's like she mixed super simple questions with super obscure questions where more than one answer could have applied. And then there were questions where the wording was ambiguous. I'll feel lucky if I made a 70 on this test! I've never had a test with so many different question styles before.

2ndyearstudent, CNA · Sep 17, 2010

I am taking Nutrition for Health Care. This is my instructors first year and she has been teaching off of a powerpoint, I mean she just reads off of a powerpoint presentation. We have her class once a week for 2 hours and this is our 3rd week into school. Today was our first exam I stayed up for the past few nights studying. I felt that I knew the material but today when I took the exam I didn't seem to know it!

It is only one exam. You can make up some ground later if you adjust your study habits.

As far as the powerpoints go, get used to it. My nursing school instructors are awesome clinical instructors but horrid theory teachers. It is up to you to make sure you read the material before class, then participate and clear up any questions you have during class. The more you can pull the instructor OFF the stupid powerpoints, the more you can give them an opportunity to teach.

Do you mean you were staying all up night studying? That may be part of the issue. Try doing your studying before class, then review after class and before the test. Your core studying time should not be the evenings before the test.

MKO90 · Sep 22, 2010

Everyone in the class ended up failing..so she put a curve on it and gave us credit for the 5 most missed questions...so i ended up passing..thank goodness

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Sep 22, 2010

Congrats! My instructor (who sounds a lot like yours) ended up curving our grades by 13 points because the class didn't do so well. A few of us got 5 points for watching a movie on the first day of class (lots of students left) so with +18 points I made an A! I was happy (don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth) but disappointed I didn't do better on my original score.. even though it would have been passing.

My instructor said she wrote her own questions on this test (in the past she's gone directly from the book) and she's going back to the book for the next one so hopefully I'll do better next time!

LateBloomer78 · Sep 22, 2010

Sounds like that instructor needs to learn how to do her job better. Instead of going through the motions and collecting a paycheck

scrubasaurus · Sep 23, 2010

Everyone in the class ended up failing..so she put a curve on it and gave us credit for the 5 most missed questions...so i ended up passing..thank goodness

That's really good she put a curve on it but not so good that she's just going through powerpoints like that! I had a professor like that before and I found it very difficult to learn everything on my own! The good thing about this test is that it is early in the semester and now you know sort of what to expect on future exams.

strawberryluv, BSN, RN · Sep 23, 2010

I got a D on my first Nutrition test too when I took the course over the summer. My instructor read from powerpoints too but her test questions were really wordy and equivocal. More than half the class got a C or a D.

I think that was why she made these "extra credit essays" for each test chapter that we could do to get extra points added to our grades. Needless to say, I always got over 95% of those essay points and so I came out of the class with an "A." That class really challenged me academically even for a community college but then again it WAS taught by the director of the Nutrition department.

OBplease · Sep 23, 2010

I'm just wondering what text you all are using? I can't remember mine of the top of my head but I am wondering what the difference is between your course and mine. I take mine online and there is NO work. Only weekly quizzes and exams. I had my first exam yesterday and got a 94 but I was disappointed because two of the questions I shouldn't have missed. I think I didn't read them through, assumed I knew the answer without thinking about it.

Not trying to be insensitive to you all's grades or experiences with your professors. I am just wondering if maybe my class it too fluffy (meaning too easy).