I just heard the test taking skills and it is so so good .. I came to this to hear more

Most exams are now computerized and do not offer an option to underline, erase, or start at the end of an exam. I think these videos while good, need to be updated.

THANK YOU! No one and I mean no one is talking about the test taking strategies for being successful. They just reinforce studying by your learning style. But overlook the fact that up until now your entire education has consisted of non-critical thinking tests and exams!

After watching your videos, I feel so much more confident to take my test today! I have test anxiety really bad, and tend to panic. The tips you offered really helped me focus, and prepare for my critical thinking questions so much better! Thank you. My practice exam scores went from really low scores to passing scores! I appreciate you taking the time to help!

Who down votes this? This information is gold.

This is great. We need more Nursing teachers like yourself. Many of my teacher can care less about your grades, you hear more of are you reading everything and taking notes. Please keep making videos.

I am a bad test taker, glad I found this. Thank you!

This is the most helpful, practical advice for how to improve your nursing test taking skills that I have ever seen. Thank you!

I wish I would have found this channel before wrote exam.its so help full thank you so much.

Thanks for the videos. I'm in 3rd level and I watch this video and "Test Taking Tips for Nursing Students" once every semester. They really help.

Thank you, so much. This is a good start. Some instructor just tell you, study smart not hard but they don't offer any solutions.

This is gold, didn´t even realise I had some of the problems you mentioned, thanks!!

You are such a great instructor! I just want to say thank you. I have learned a LOT about what I do wrong when it comes to nursing exams. At our school, we have a 78% cumulative test average that we need to surpass in order to even pass the class. If we get anything wrong such as our labs, clinicals, tests, or homework, we fail the class. I am going to take this with me into my final tomorrow and I hope that I can pass!!

I just found your page and OMG, THANK YOU!! You are great this is so verty helpful all instructors should teach like you. I'm in school now and my first exam is 9/20/17 I'm going to apply what I've learned from your page!

Thank you for this video. I just did much worse than I thought I had on a test I took today and can see how some of these tips, especially the underlining key words and answering the questions myself then choosing the correct one, will help me. I'm looking forward to using these techniques on my next test.

Great job in identifying multiple possible weaknesses! Thank you!

I'm starting nursing school in 2 weeks and like everyone, I want to do well! Thank you, can't wait to apply what I've learned.

thank you for the tips, helps me to recognize my area of mistakes !!

This video was helpful and easy to follow. I will be be putting the information learned into practice.

This is a good reinforcement for me to bring back my confidence psychologically. I didn't get any support from the people around me bec i didn't passed my first board exam. Thanks for bringing it back to me!!!

Thank you for sharing this video. I really think this may be able to help me in my future tests.

Well done, thanks for taking the time to help us..

This was an awesome video!!!! Wish I would have been given this link earlier in the semester!!!! If your teacher gave you this link....please listen to the whole thing!!! I think these suggestions will really help me in the future!

Just posted it, but this won't let me add the link (let me know if you can't find it). Sorry it wasn't available like I said :) Also, sorry these tips were too late to help you, but I would love for you to share my website and these videos with others at your nursing school so we can spread the information. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

I feel like I should pay you! I am so thankful that I found your videos!! Thank you thank you thank you!!

This is really great! I wish I had this last semester. Super excited I have it now. I'm ready!

These were great test taking tips and I found my particular problem of narrowing down to 2 and picking the wrong one. I do think its a little difficult to bounce around on a computer based test (working backwards, skipping questions, leaving questions blank and going back to them). I think if the tests that we take were paper and pencil that would work great, but not so much on the computer based tests. However, the tips themselves were very helpful. I will watch more of your videos and hope that I can get through this semester with improved critical thinking skills. Thank you!

Wow, that was an amazing again. In the morning I'll have a midterm on a medsurg 6th last semester, I'll try this tips(some), will update later with the results. Thanks again, for sure I'll sate this video with others.

This video has AMAZING info and advice - thank you!!

these tips really do help thank you!

Hi. You're videos are more than helpful. I'm learning and connecting stuff I learned in 1st semester, and I'm in fifth!Would you post one educating nursing students about ICP, Neurological alterations and organ donation, and cardiopulmonary alterations??? I deeply appreciate your work.

Thank you so much!! This video was so helpful!!

I failed my exam today. Failed the 3rd exam of this semester & I needed these tips. I swear I studied & knew my stuff yet failed. This video really helps.

if you could go through specific questions and go through the logic of why each is right and wiring that would be great … I like the videos with the actual process of what you do and talking through the questions .. thanks

So beyond helpful! Thanks so much!

this video was extremely helpful thank you!

This is a great resource. Thank you. I would like to see videos about how to define;"what should the nurse for FIRST?""What intervention should be implemented?""What is the first priority? "What should the nurse do?""What should be the first action?"

I have been having d's lately. mostly cos I don't read carefully enough. This video is really helpful. I will let you know when I get a 90 in my next exam. :) Thanks a lot.

That's a great idea and is exactly what my research found too. Try to think of it as just 5 or 6 different questions instead of freaking out about it being a multi-answer question. Answer each choice as true or false in relation to what the question was asking.

How come you are no longer making videos? This is really helpful!

Great job Megan! These tips are helpful. I will play this again and again to master the tips. Please is there any tips you can offer per "select all that applies" and "arrangement of procedures" as well as "hot spots" questions in nclex. I really need help in those areas.

I really liked your rationales for this video, I will make sure to practice (it's usually choosing the wrong one out of the 2 for me). Anyway, we're getting a lot of select all that apply on our test bc the NCLEX is going crazy with those style of questions. Can you create a video for test taking strategies for that? Also could you do a video shock/mods, rhythm strips, cancer, end of life? Thanks

Thank you so much for this video was so helpful!!!

50 question test, that would be nice! My instructor loves these 30 question tests..

Thanks for the tips!

Enjoyed this thoroughly!

I am glad that I listened to this video. Wished I have this advice last year I might have passed my exams. But I have another chance so I would definitely try your strategy.

This was very helpful. Love the video as well as the test taking tips. I do have some concern on how to read my text book. Some instructors states to read it all and others states just read the bold, tables, boxes, and/or figures. I have tried both and don't think is helping. I tend to read into the not so important info. Any tip on that? Thanks.

Thank you for your help. I knew what my problem was but didn't know how to fix it. Your video shows me exactly what I need to do. Do you have any tips on how to answer "select all" questions. This one is truly a challenge for me. I always manage to leave out one answer choice. Please help.

I would definitely ask about getting a little bit of extra time to take the exam. Not all programs require that you have a learning disability to get this extra time. It's always No until you ask!!! If you get some extra time use that time to improve your test-taking skills because you won't have extra time on NCLEX. If you keep getting distracted, wear earplugs. Can make a huge difference!

I sure wish I would have found you a long time ago.

AMAZING! Thank you! 👍

I wish I had found this video at the beginning of my class! My teacher was very little help when I'd ask her where I was going wrong on my tests. She'd just tell me to go back and study on the NCLEX site we used for homework.

But now test are on a computer, you can't write on them, and you can't go back.

Thank you, very helpful video.

Love this! Thank you!

love your advice!

Can you help on the all that apply questions thank you

excellent tips ! these test taking strategies are helping me with my test anxiety as now I have a technique to answer nclex test questions. Thank you ! =)

I really enjoyed listening to your video. I really believe it will help me in the future. I look forward for my scores to go up higher.... I'm glad your reaching out...:) I WANT to SURPASS...

I would just like to say thank you , I wish that you were my nursing instructor.

You talk about a learning styles video, but I'm not sure where that is. I really love your tips! Wish I would have found them before Med Surg II, though! LOL

Sounds good we will see my final is coming up soon.

Just took my first 2 exams in semester 1 of Nursing school. I rly need test taking skills and this was very helpful. Thank u. Hope I don’t fail the next😭😭😭

Great video! Do you have one for "select all that apply" questions?

Awesome! Thank you so much!

I answer game show questions using, "I don't even know what that is." Admittedly, I've done this in school, too. If 3/4 choices have something in common to me, I always pick the remaining answer. I figure this has to be the right one (like a potential trick answer).

I love your videos so far, but what do you do when your professor does not really pay attention when you meet with her or him to review your exam questions and is always rushed? It just frustrates me even more.

Great video. I really think this will help.

This video was so helpful.

Great tips. Thank you.

Videos are great. Do you have any videos on Mental Health and Pharm. Would appreciate it, but if not thanks for all you do.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!!

depending on the question I have been guilty of all of these at least once. my test are computerized and we are not allowed to go back to questions (to simulate the NCLEX). I study enough I do know that, I never get the knowledge base questions wrong and I can always narrow it down to two. In lab and clinical I excel. I usually pass my exams but not by much. Sometimes as soon as I click next I instantly know I should of picked the other one. literally, the moment I click it. I have a medical background in nuclear medicine that does get me into trouble as well, then again sometimes it helps. My class has had a few exam questions from portions of our book that our instructor specifically said to omit (but I wont go there). I am passing right now but I want to be more confident and comfortable with exams. All of my classmates always compliment me and say they are impressed with how knowledgeable I am because I put in the time and effort to know the material and apply it. In clinical its as if I have more clarity, the patient is in front of me... I see it I'm not just reading exam questions in front of a computer screen. A girl who would have made a wonderful nurse just recent failed out. She knows it, she's was amazing with patients but the exams got her and not by much. I know regardless, I need to refocus and get better at taking exams because this is the way things are done right now. Its all about the NCLEX exam. If only the exam was someone texting you on your application in front of a mannequin or actual patient. Obviously if I have a patient in front of me having severe chest pain and other stressors I'm going to administer their prescribed pain med then call the doc. But in a test with your mind going a million miles a minute your not thinking as clearly and practically your thinking well wait their blood pressure is low, their respiration are high maybe they are going into shock and you grab that exam phone and call the doctor while your patient is sitting there cussing you out because their chest still hurts lol. but you dont care you just want that exam question gone... let the doctor take that exam question away from me lol. be gone you evil tricky question. Then your confronted with your 50th exam question, your 50th patient that you just mentally pictured in your mind, your mentally drained this hypothetically hospital has 11 dead patients already and you just need to get that last question right to pass.. to not get fired... if nursing were like these exams and we saw 50 patients in a day without a formulary or google lets face it a lot more than 11 would be dead. You finish your exam and realise pt 12 should of gotten O2, question 40 you should of turned the patient on the other side, that patient needed to ambulate, this patient hasn't peed after surgery so what I should just keep monitoring... what am I so quick to touch peoples privates in an exam when in real life id be assessing and avoiding those privates for a long as possible. lol I could go on for days.

Please see my reply above to another student with a great suggestion.

can you do a lesson on pediatric nursing for Nursing student

Mrs. McLin awesome tips. Do you have any tips for non native speakers in nursing. Thanks

Could you do a respiratory assessment video?

Thank you!!!!

What advice can you give on how to approach the "select all that apply" questions? Do you have or could you make a video that addresses that?

This is GOLD

I love your tips but my test are on a computer and once you hit next you cant go back to that question.

Unfortunately I have no advice for those. I hate those type of questions myself, but I know they are on NCLEX. I'll do some research and see if I can find anything.

we do not have exam review. And dont hold your breathe when you ask for one because they never do a one on one with you.

How about some study tips for the last course in the nursing RN program...

I wish you were an instructor at my school.

I want to focus more on the key words, but the problem is I take computer tests. So how would i circle key words to focus me? i think this will benefit me for my final on Thursday. (In neuro)

My school only gives exams on the computer. What tips do you have for us?

How can we apply these tips to computerized testing in nursing school where you can't back track? @MeganMcClintock

Life saver!!!

I do not have any videos on Mental Health or Pharm. Right now my focus is on getting all of Med Surg I and II out there and then I'll branch out. Sorry I can't help you right now :(

do you have any tips for OB/PEDS

Do you have some videos on Immunity?

We don't have exam review at our school due to a cheating scandal years ago :(.

A friend of mine told me to address multiple response questions as "true or false" statements.

This is all me when taking my nursing exam.

Med Surg....Please

Doing Nursinge My Help me, Teacher

nursing students are on more meds that patients

depending on the question I have been guilty of all of these at least once. my test are computerized and we are not allowed to go back to questions (to simulate the NCLEX). I study enough I do know that, I never get the knowledge base questions wrong and I can always narrow it down to two. In lab and clinical I excel. I usually pass my exams but not by much. Sometimes as soon as I click next I instantly know I should of picked the other one. literally, the moment I click it. I have a medical background in nuclear medicine that does get me into trouble as well, then again sometimes it helps. My class has had a few exam questions from portions of our book that our instructor specifically said to omit (but I wont go there). I am passing right now but I want to be more confident and comfortable with exams. All of my classmates always compliment me and say they are impressed with how knowledgeable I am because I put in the time and effort to know the material and apply it. In clinical its as if I have more clarity, the patient is in front of me... I see it I'm not just reading exam questions in front of a computer screen. A girl who would have made a wonderful nurse just recent failed out. She knows it, she's was amazing with patients but the exams got her and not by much. I know regardless, I need to refocus and get better at taking exams because this is the way things are done right now. Its all about the NCLEX exam. If only the exam was someone texting you on your application in front of a mannequin or actual patient. Obviously if I have a patient in front of me having severe chest pain and other stressors I'm going to administer their prescribed pain med then call the doc. But in a test with your mind going a million miles a minute your not thinking as clearly and practically your thinking well wait their blood pressure is low, their respiration are high maybe they are going into shock and you grab that exam phone and call the doctor while your patient is sitting there cussing you out because their chest still hurts lol. but you dont care you just want that exam question gone... let the doctor take that exam question away from me lol. be gone you evil tricky question. Then your confronted with your 50th exam question, your 50th patient that you just mentally pictured in your mind, your mentally drained this hypothetically hospital has 11 dead patients already and you just need to get that last question right to pass.. to not get fired... if nursing were like these exams and we saw 50 patients in a day without a formulary or google lets face it a lot more than 11 would be dead. You finish your exam and realise pt 12 should of gotten O2, question 40 you should of turned the patient on the other side, that patient needed to ambulate, this patient hasn't peed after surgery so what I should just keep monitoring... what am I so quick to touch peoples privates in an exam when in real life id be assessing and avoiding those privates for a long as possible. lol I could go on for days.