Study Worksheets for Reviewing Your Test-Taking Performance

Chapter 37


Study Worksheets for Reviewing Your Test-Taking Performance



Introduction


Two comprehensive examinations have been included with this book. Comprehensive Examination 1 appears in the book and on the companion CD, and Comprehensive Examination 2 appears just on the companion CD. The questions in these examinations have been developed to reflect the current NCLEX-RN computer adaptive test (CAT). Their purpose is to provide an opportunity for test takers to experience a testing situation that approximates the NCLEX-RN examination. These questions cross clinical disciplines and require the test taker to respond to individual and specific needs associated with common health problems and nursing responsibilities. Answers and Rationales are provided for each question. The rationales for correct and incorrect options introduce or reinforce the theories, principles, concepts, and information contained within the practice of nursing. The NCLEX-RN test plan classifications and reference to the chapter and section where information contained in the question can be found in Mosby’s Comprehensive Review of Nursing does not appear at the end of each question’s answer and rationale in the book for Comprehensive Examination 1; however, this information for both Comprehensive Examinations is included on the companion CD. These examinations on the CD provide an opportunity for students to take computerized comprehensive examinations.



How to Maximize Use of the Comprehensive Examinations


To achieve maximum learning from the experience of taking an integrated, comprehensive examination, we have divided each Comprehensive Examination into two sections. Part A contains 75 questions, which is the minimum number of questions every candidate must answer on the NCLEX-RN. Part B contains 190 questions. Part B and Part A together total 265 questions, the maximum number of questions on the NCLEX-RN examination.


With Comprehensive Examination 1, we recommend that you review the answers and rationales and the classifications of questions for each part as you complete it. In Comprehensive Examination 2, which appears on the Companion CD, you should wait until you have completed both parts before checking the answers and rationales and classifications of questions. We have made these recommendations so Test 1 will reinforce your immediate learning and so Test 2, although it also reinforces learning, will better reflect the actual situation that you will experience when you take the computerized NCLEX-RN examination.


To help you analyze your mistakes on the comprehensive examinations and to provide a database for making study plans, Focus for Study worksheets have been included in this chapter to help you identify and record errors in the way you process information and to help you identify and recrod gaps in knowledge. Follow the directions that appear below under HOW TO DEVELOP A FOCUS FOR STUDY. As you review material in class notes or in this book, pay attention to correcting your most common problems and identifying the topics you should review further. It might be helpful to set priorities; review the most difficult topics first so that you will have time to review them more than once. The worksheets can be used to focus your future study. Remember, if you study the proper subject matter, the knowledge you gain will provide you with the ability to answer questions, regardless of the medium used to ask the question, because the required knowledge of the subject matter does not change.


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