Testing and mind reading abilities

[aem31]

Do you ever feel like you are required to crawl into your instructor's mind and read it during a test? I've done really well on my first few tests in fundamentals and pulled an A on both but I am amazed at some of the questions and how they sort of seem to expect us to be able to draw nearly impossible conclusions. So far, I've been lucky and guessed right but many haven't.

An example: On our last test we were asked a question regarding legalities. The situation was that a nurse had wrote down that a client was using street drugs. The family later found this information and we were supposed to know if the nurse was guilty of libel, slander, negligence or some fourth factor I can't remember but was ridiculous and obviously not the answer. Pretty easy stuff except many students were left with the thought process that this was something the nurse had documented or charted and that would point to negligence if she left it in plain view of family members. The answer was libel, and it was what I chose, but many missed it it. One student asked the instructor about it and was told that since the RN just "wrote it down on a piece of scratch paper" that it wasn't something charted and therefore not negligent but libelous. But the question didn't specify charted or not, just that it had been written down.

I was left wondering to myself how we are supposed to pick out these details that the instructors have in their

head but aren't provided to us. How do you deal with the missing blanks?

[anonymousstudent]

I have a teacher like this. Thankfully only one right now. This is my 3rd quarter with her so I caught on quickly. You just have to know to watch for it. The thing that helps me the most is to look for the wrong answers instead of the right one. I sift them out that way. Each answer I have to know very clearly why it's wrong from lots of angles before I take it out.

I just took a test a few days ago and I couldn't believe some of them, you would laugh. I'm not going to quote them (don't want to blow my cover ), I got them right but I know from the averages many didn't.

Another thing is that sometimes I don't think she's intentionally trying to be tricky, but if you don't read the problem EXACTLY, all parts, you miss it because there are right answers for each part that are not right for others, you know? Mess. lol Good luck to you, just look for the tricks and know it's coming.