Study guides are a secret that many nursing students do not share

[ismelp5]

I know this is a hot topic to talk about, but since I started in nursing school I seen many students using study guides for study and if you do a research on Google you will get a tons of website selling you many study guides for any subject your are taking in nursing school.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

While I personally don't mind people having access to test banks, what I do mind is the use of specific test banks that would allow cheating to occur. For instance, if a student were to be able to identify where professors were generating their exams from and study specifically from that same test bank, that's akin to cheating because then the student only needs to recall the question and they'd know the answer because they've seen the correct answer before, directly from the test bank.

If the student is using several test banks as a means of testing their own knowledge, then the intent is not to cheat.

Personally though, I would much rather direct people to material that's similar to, but not identical to the questions so that the student has to know the material to do well on the exams. This way there's no way cheating can occur.

Also, the way I see it presented here, the intent certainly seems to allow, or at least permit the possibility of, cheating and seems to indirectly encourage the use of the site for that purpose.

"Open book" exams are meant to be used as a learning tool... nursing exams are "closed book" and using test banks specifically to find out the exact answers is exactly like getting your hands on a professor's exams and using them. That's cheating.

TheCommuter, thanks for editing that original post. Those who saw it, my rant was about the content that was edited.