Tests don't match lecture, notes or review

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hello all,

i need a few opinions on this topic. i am taking a few of the pre-reqs this summer and they are really getting on my nerves. i've taken two tests in both classes and both times in each class...the test doesn't match the lecture, review questions or notes.:uhoh3: what is going on here?

though no one has said, it's affecting scores and morale. there are only two weeks left.

is this how nursing school is?

i've been through an undergrad and grad program and this hasn't ever happened.

i can't begin to understand where he got these test questions. it is the craziest mess i've seen in the realm of education. it's frustrating to say the least. he's a new teacher (an md) and says he doesn't want to get a rep of being an easy teacher. what a fool!!!:uhoh21:

wait, you have a md for a teacher for anatomy?

mmmmmmmmm....something is very wrong with that picture. did he happen to mention why?????

Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

I took a Human Growth and Development course as part of my pre-reqs for Nursing School. The first major test was an unqualified disaster for the very reasons you have stated, and almost the entire class failed it (including myself). We were all majorily outraged, and when one of my classmates threatened to go to the Dean, our Professor threw out the test. After that, there were no more problems with the tests not matching what we had covered in lecture or in our textbooks. Sometimes it pays to speak up.

I had an MD for AP2 Lab, sounds like I_AM_JULIA has the same guy. Hmm, do you go to BCC?

I'd say at least try to bring it up with him in a tactful way. It's tricky, but it can be done. Yes, there's a chance he'll resent your feedback and your questioning of his teaching method, but if his methods are already having that much of an impact on your grade, isn't it worth it? If that doesn't work, though, I agree with Actnow (post #12), go to the department head and bring it up. If you go to the dept. head first, your teacher might feel like you're blindsiding him (which you would be). Good luck.

Specializes in ER/Ortho.

The first time I signed up for A&P I carefully picked my instructor a nice Dr. Luo that everyone said was great. The first day of class I show up, and the professor is not who I signed up for. Instead he was a young dentist!!!!! It was his first time to teach anything, and he was awful. He was constantly talking about dental stuff (which there is very little of in A&P). We walked into our first practical, and had no idea what the models were that we had to answer questions about. He said that he didn't realize the science department set up the practicals, and thought he could teach what he wanted, and set up his own practicals.

I went to the dean, and was told that they had so many students trying to get into A&P that they didn't have enough professors ....hence the dentist.

That happened to me in A&P too. We were given reading guides for each chapter, which were awesome- told you which paragraphs to read and which to skip, which review questions to do, everything. Then the exam had a bunch of questions from skipped sections! It turned out the reading guides were from the dept, but the adjunct professor was making the exams, obviously he had never read the reading guides.

Nothing much to do except read the whole chapter from then on. Oh well.

sounds like my A&P 2 teacher she always used power point slides and she barly oppend the book and the book was supposed to come with a workbook but the teacher never told the school that it was needed so the teacher made all these copys. thats a good point you made stpauligril in your posting. hang in there I am julia good luck.

i thought it was strange too. he just said it was personal issues, nothing illegal, just personal. humm

wait, you have a md for a teacher for anatomy?

mmmmmmmmm....something is very wrong with that picture. did he happen to mention why?????

i am not but he's from that area...around the city.

i had an md for ap2 lab, sounds like i_am_julia has the same guy. hmm, do you go to bcc?
Specializes in DOU.

I would try to meet with the teacher during office hours, and tell him your grades are really important to you. Then you can ask him how you can study "better" for his exams since you are clearly having difficulty. I don't see how this could hurt...

i thought it was strange too. he just said it was personal issues, nothing illegal, just personal. humm

i think it was along the lines of someone "personally" sued him for malpractice, unless he has a mental health issue that does not allow him to practice medicine b/c of medication...then i could understand it.

there is no way someone is going to spend that long in medical school and then teach at anything less than a grad-school level.

i would seriously go talk to someone...he is new, and a new instructor and he needs to get out of the 8th grade and stop worrying about what his co-workers and students think of him and teach the class the best way for you to learn...not what is best for his reputation.

you can bet your bottom dollar that the dean knows what his "personal" reasons are.

I had an MD for A&P I and A&P II - same guy for both - who wasn't a very good teacher, and I have another one now for patho who is one of the best instructors I've ever had in my life (previous bachelor's, 6 years of college). Neither one ever mentioned their previous employment or why they went into teaching. The A&P guy was awful - he read powerpoints to us, and if there was a typo or an error he read that too - and the patho guy is amazing. He's 60-ish, and maybe he just wanted a more laid back lifestyle than working in a hospital...or maybe my school pays well.

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