Kboylan1

OMG wow. None of this has been helpful. Did I mention I'm about to graduate? Of course I do practice NCLEX questions, and I know they are helpful, I just happen to use other books that are not Lippincott. Anyway, hopefully someone else can respond who doesn't feel the need to be condescending. My question is not "should I suck it up?" It is actually "is this common practice?" because, like I said, I've always gotten the impression that my instructors make up their own questions.

Life is unfair? Nice. I'm an adult, by the way, not a 10 year old. The difference is, that some people have been studying from this other random book so knew the answers, while the rest of us just had to guess. Why would an instructor NOT write her own questions based on what she taught and the information from our textbook? Instead she chose to use questions from some random review book that didn't line up with the things she taught. I don't expect instructors to take questions directly from our textbook, because there are no questions in our textbook. It's a textbook. What would seem fair to me would be to make her own questions with information from what we were told to learn (the text chapters).

My nursing program has a bunch of different instructors who lecture on different topics, then they all write their own test questions on their topics. We have required readings on each topic, powerpoints from the lecture of each topic, and required questions to answer on the topics in our required Davis NCLEX review book. I read every page in the book and take notes and make outlines merging info from the pp and text. I also do the Davis NCLEX questions. My problem is: We had a test today (which went bad for the majority of students). I found out that about 15 questions (out of 50) came straight out of the Lipincott NCLEX review book. I really think this is unfair for 2 reasons: The few people who just happen to have bought the Lipincott book and use it to study got all of those answers right. The rest of us got most of those answers wrong because either a)the information in the question was not ANYTHING we focused on during our lectures and b) the answers we had to choose from seemed to use different rationals for the correct answer than I think the info from the text would suggest. I don't usually complain, but come on. I think the practice of instructors taking questions DIRECTLY from a review book that we are not required to use is lazy. Even if it's not laziness, it's something I'm pretty sure isn't fair and I don't agree with. I am in a 2 year ASN program and the point is keeping my high GPA so I can get into a good BSN program. I will worry about NCLEX when it's time. Please tell me if you agree/disagree, or if you are aware that this is common. If it is, I guess I should just suck it up:) Thanks! BTW, I graduate in 3 weeks and this is the first I've heard that instructors do this.