tganios

I have a question on the legitimacy of testing in nursing school. Maybe someone can help me out with advice. I am in 3rd semester of nursing school have passed all exams up until my first exam in med surg this semester. In fact only 5 people passed the exam out of 31 people and the class average was a 68. On the second exam it seemed more fair however there were two specific questions like respiratory ques (such as breath sounds) on the GI test that we had no idea would be on the test. The focus was GI. Would it be safe to say that this is being unjust and risking points of students on exams? Can teachers do this or should they give us a review sheet hinting of what to brush up on from previous semesters so we do not risk points that could have been answered correctly if we knew to brush up? From what I can remember, every semester before this one our teachers gave us a study review sheet a week before the exam esp if it contained material from previous semesters and currently the teacher we now have is stating anything is fair game from previous semesters. So how do we study things that have no relation to our exams? Where is the focus?