Were you guys allowed the use of a calculator when you took your dosage test?

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The nursing program at my school does not allow the use of a calculator.I find this extremely ridiculous, since you have to get all 10 questions correct without one. Did your school allow calculators?

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Our school just started allowing calculators. My first couple of calculation test we were not allowed and they were 20 questions, had to get 18. Which a large amount of us passed. It can be done.

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Specializes in Med/ Surg/ Telemetry, Public Health.

Yes we are allowed to use calculators, We get 10 questions at thirty minutes. Without a calculator I could do the math but it probably would take me longer.

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We were allowed to as well. Every semester the amount of questions and time are different.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

We were allowed to have one, reason being any nurse on the floor has access to a calculator...

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

The school provides calculators to use on the tests.

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Nope, and we had an hour to do 25 questions with lots of long division...

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Specializes in Public Health.
Nope and we had an hour to do 25 questions with lots of long division...[/quote']

Lame. Real life has calculators.

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Nope, we had about 20 questions we had to get 100% on.

It's a beautiful day to save lives.

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I agree... BOTH real life and NCLEX (NCLEX calculator on their system) allow simple calculators... schools should too...

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I meant NCLEX gives YOU a simple calculator on their system. Not that YOU can bring one.

clarification.

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We were not allowed to use one. Ten question test every Friday and we had to get an 80%.

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