I am interested to know how other school’s administration is handling things. The program I am in switched to online classes and online exams when the pandemic started. It is important to note that we are a Private University. Our previous exams were 50 questions and we were allotted 1.5 mins per question and had the ability to flag questions and go back. Since being online, they changed our exam format to 25 questions (still 1.5 mins per question) and are giving us 50 minutes for the whole exam, but we can no longer go back or flag questions.
So, if you don’t know the answer to a question, you have to guess and move forward and not waste too much time or you run the risk of running out of time. They claim that they made this change to better prepare us for the NCLEX however, my cohort and I think it’s unfair to suddenly change the exam format, since we were never tested in this format from day one.
Today they informed us (keep in mind we are halfway through this semester) that although they previously communicated that the entire Summer term would be fully online, we will now have to go back to campus “in person” to take our final exam, even though our classes are still being taught online for the reminder of the Summer semester. Interested to know what other Universities are doing to see if there is any merit to what they are saying.
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I am interested to know how other school’s administration is handling things. The program I am in switched to online classes and online exams when the pandemic started. It is important to note that we are a Private University. Our previous exams were 50 questions and we were allotted 1.5 mins per question and had the ability to flag questions and go back. Since being online, they changed our exam format to 25 questions (still 1.5 mins per question) and are giving us 50 minutes for the whole exam, but we can no longer go back or flag questions.
So, if you don’t know the answer to a question, you have to guess and move forward and not waste too much time or you run the risk of running out of time. They claim that they made this change to better prepare us for the NCLEX however, my cohort and I think it’s unfair to suddenly change the exam format, since we were never tested in this format from day one.
Today they informed us (keep in mind we are halfway through this semester) that although they previously communicated that the entire Summer term would be fully online, we will now have to go back to campus “in person” to take our final exam, even though our classes are still being taught online for the reminder of the Summer semester. Interested to know what other Universities are doing to see if there is any merit to what they are saying.