In this case, very long reponses, because you can go further.

 

For my thesis I wrote a 1,800 pages essay, I'm 100% sure that none of the juries dared to read it completely, so I was very calmed because I knew I was better informed than any of them.

 

Iván

 

I hate essays. They're always way to vague. "Discuss how this question made you feel. At least 5 paragraphs."

 

I had one essay where I couldn't remember anything, so I just did a 3 paragraph discussion about how Hitler could have won WW2.

 

Yeah, it was in Science. What of it?

I finished my formal education nearly 30 years ago when multiple choice questions were not the norm. But I have employed an awful lot of people whose educational achievements have been assessed by the first three options in this poll and it drives me to despair. I can understand that from a students point of view all you want to do is pass the test in the easiest way, and schools, colleges and universities are looking to pass as many people as possible to make their stats look good, but in the real world those “skills” are meaningless.

 

Life isn't multiple-choice, you can't just fill in the blanks and short answers do not demonstrate any measure of understanding.

They are designed to confuse...

 

That's how we end up with U.S. kids getting to high school without so much as basic arithmetic skills or the ability to point out the Pacific Ocean on a map. The curriculum is taught but nobody tests them to determine whether they have the basic skill sets to move on.  You have to have some standard by which you measure knowledge.  Do you really want a surgeon operating on you who has not been tested in basic anaomy and physiology? I think not.  

 

1. Your comment about nursing is a baseless, rude generalization.

2. If you don't like tests you had better avoid school.

 

 

Guess when it becomes an unattractive option to them...about the time of their first test.

Pencils down.

Pass yor papers, finished or not.

You have exams in Porcupine Tree??!!!  600 questions!! That beats the 10 Genesis questions on MasterMind.

 

I've just realised this Poll is a multiple choice and my previous answer was an essay.

 

Stoney, I'd keep you thoughts to yourself next time you go into hostpital to have your tonsils out, that dumb blond heavy drinking bimbo nurse might just get the operating table the wrong way around.

 

And don't ask her to prick your boil.  

 

a gratuatous Nursey pic...

 

Physical Therapy that is.

 

 

If it has yet to be noted, I am a nurse.

 

And I look much more like the figure on the right than the figure on the left.

 

And Stonebeard, please be aware that classroom tests are butterfly kisses compared to the tests my clients take on a daily basis. And they are frequently pass/fail. 

 

 

 

 

That's a lot of questions for your boards.  NCLEX here has a min. 75 max. 269.  Do your boards have primarily concrete knowledge or a bunch of prioritizing and delegation questions?

 

Any plans on coming to work in the states?  I could use a nice fat referral bonus? J/K, I think overseas referral bonuses are limitted to recruiters.  But I will say this, I really appreciate our PT's for getting the patients moving when I'm buried in paperwork.  Never let anybody marginalize the job you do.

 

You are referring to 'Nursing Assistants', sometimes called 'Patient Care Techs' or probably a bunch of other terms depending on where you go (and with the international contingent on this site, I'm sure it is quite variable). And believe me, I depend on them and they work very hard.  There are obviously exceptions to any rule, but a health care setting is one of the harder places to avoid responsibility.

 

If you don't mind me asking, what Community College would that be?