What's wrong

[gjwifey]

I failed this semester and I can't understand why. I study and do NCLEX questions and ATI, The questions from these I get right , but when it's testtime I get the questions wrong. The instructors and I both agree I am do the right things to study, I just don't understand. I don't get nervous before the test and I've found some of the test easy I just knew I had the questions right. Maybe someone can give me some advice as to what's going on. This semester was OB, Med-surg Fluids Electro.

[DayDreamin ER CRNP]

I would get with your teachers to analyze what types of questions you are missing and why. Are you reading the questions wrong? Are you interacting with your test questions? By that I mean are you underlining, highlighting key words in the questions and writing notes? It is easy to miss what the question is actually asking.

I would look at the types of questions you are missing. Are you missing assessment questions? Interventions? Knowledge / patho? When I miss stuff I'm usually missing the patho-types of questions or intervention questions.

Another possibility is that you are overstudying the material or not studying appropriately for the test material. You can do 400 NCLEX questions a week but if you don't know WHY that answer is the correct answer it won't help you.

I've also found that my teachers don't always ask NCLEX type questions on their class tests.

I'd say take some time to review your tests with your teachers and see where your weaknesses are and then see if you can either get some guidance from her or see if you can get a GTA to tutor you.

meredith

[RNTutor, BSN, RN]

I agree totally with KeeperMom. Get with your instructors to go over your exams. Do it as soon as possible after you take the tests, so that your thought processes when you answered are still fresh in your mind. Then you can 'self-assess' what is going on. If you do it that way then you might start noticing that you are mis-reading some questions, or narrowing it down to 2 and then picking wrong, or something like that. If you can find a pattern to what is going wrong then you can work on correcting it.