Jweinstein

The program I was enrolled in allows students to argue questions but it really depends on the instructor that gave the test, some are more lenient than others. After looking at my emails from the instructors one of them sent a link referring us to ways to answer SATA questions which included the link to the NCSBN. I feel if they are going to send us information like this they should work to make sure their questions follow this format. But you are right these programs do what they want and the handbooks are so broad it's hard to appeal anything.

I really only had one test grade that was horrible and brought my grade down pretty low, this was due to being in and out of hospital with a sick baby, I had to fight my way back out of that hole. I was told by one of my instructors that I should ask to review my final because there were a lot of bad questions on the test that had to be thrown out and she felt that it was a bad test. How many questions would have to be thrown out or credited for a test to be considered a poor test?

I've written an appeal letter to the Dean of Students asking to be allowed to review the scantrons from my test. There were several questions on the final that had errors. There was another SATA that had the last 2 answer choices ran together so it looked as if it was one answer choice instead of 2 and the last answer choice was a correct answer. Other students were allowed to review their scantrons but I was not given this option. I'm also bringing up the point that this program has completely changed since I entered the program 2 years ago, we have a new Dean of the nursing program and she has changed the handbook 3 times since she has started.

So I am working on appealing my final grade for my nursing program. The Dean of the program changed the rounding rule while we were in our 3rd semester so a 74.5 no longer rounds to a 75 which is the required grade for passing. Well in my final semester I ended up with a 74.96 average, I needed just one more question right on the comprehensive final in order to graduate. There was an SATA question on the final that only had 1 correct answer. I thought I read somewhere that in order for a question to apply as a select all that apply there had to be more that one correct answer. I may be grasping at straws at this point but any advice would be greatly appreciated.