Select all that apply...

[nurselou04]

I just started nursing school and I had my first exam this past week. I am really having issues with the select all that apply type questions.. does anyone have any suggestions on how to master these type of questions?? Thank you!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Here's one article from the NCLEX forum: https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/why-you-dont-902671.html

As many nursing school test questions are modeled on NCLEX questions, you may find several threads in the NCLEX, general nursing student, and nursing student assistance forums. You can also use the search bar in the upper right to search. You may want to search using the abbreviation SATA as well as the phrase spelled out.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

google for "select all that apply". You will find several websites offering many questions and, guesss what! They are related to nursing. I found that interesting.

[FineAgain]

And practice practice practice them because NCLEX is loaded with SATA questions.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

It takes getting used to....practice practice practice.

[Wave Watcher]

I struggled with "select all that apply" options. Or worse, we would have select all that apply...option a, b, c, and then d would be "none apply". Good grief! :-)

[NuGuyNurse2b]

You're not alone. Our school's NCLEX pass rate has gone down over the years with the increase of SATA on them. So now our exams are loaded with them to help us prepare for the NCLEX. But the downside is it's sending a lot of people out of the program I do OK with SATA where it's like 5 choices and it's 3 or 4 out of the 5. But on the ones where it's only 1 or 2, I struggle because I feel like that's a trick question and then it turns out it's not...

[HolisticRN2016]

Just started nursing school this semester. I haaaaaaaaate these questions..I've been getting them right though so far, but I'm only in fundamentals. I imagine that there only gonna get harder

[Okami_CCRN, BSN, RN]

We have someone in our school of nursing who is a resource person for students who are having difficulty with exams. She comes every semester to offer tips for exams, this semester she went over SATA her advice was to carefully look at the STEM of the question (what is being asked) then try to answer the question yourself without looking at the choices. Now select answers that you know are correct. When trying to differentiate look at how they are written if they sound similar or give the same information chances are both are wrong.

Then there are times where SATA are straight memory retention which were on my exam last week... so sometimes its the luck of the draw

[imbatz, BSN, RN]

Select all that apply questions. I am also a first term RN student and every professor says that these questions are showing up more and more on the NCLEX. I asked a professor about how to look at them and I was told that she asked the test makers that same question. Her is what the test makers told her. Look at every possible answer and decide if it is True or False for the question. If it is true, then select it. Another professor told the class that with select all that apply questions, it is never one option nor is it every all of them. So if you can remove one or two possibilities, then you have a better chance of selecting all that apply! I hope this helps out.

[greeneth]

Another professor told the class that with select all that apply questions, it is never one option nor is it every all of them.

We were told that in SATA, it could be one right or ALL of them could be right. My program just bought us an adaptive quizzing online software to help with SATA and adaptive testing and we must do 100 questions weekly.