First Exams

Apparently I do not have to quit my job yet. The exams went good, and I feel better about my organization and schedule.

MATH
The math exam is 10 questions. Passing is getting 9 out of 10 or better. Anything less is failing. I took my time and did all of the questions. Then I had enough time to go back and to them all again. I did take almost the entire hour to finish, but I did not want to have to come back on week 4. I could use that time to study something else. Woo Hoo, I scored 10/10!

I plan on practicing some problems every few days because we will be using these conversion factors for the rest of our lives.

LECTURE
There are 50 questions on the exam. If you score below a 37 you are "encouraged" to go to the lab and take the tutorial on test taking for nurses. I was going to go anyway, but just literally ran out of time. Math on Thursdays cut into my lab time, but now I plan to go this week. I did buy and read much of Test Success for Nursing Process which is recommended reading. It helped immensely.

I scored in the 40's and am quite interested in seeing where I went wrong with my thinking. I don't believe my errors were in knowledge, but in the process of answering these critical thinking questions. My next exam should be better.

Pretty much on top of studying, we need to study how to study. A few students have already talked about dropping the summer courses and picking them up again in the fall. I see their point. We have 4 weeks less to do the same amount of work, and our clinical days are both 2 hours longer than a normal semester's hours. It really cuts into the study time.