Tincan -- I agree with your rationale, but respectfully dissent with your end.
Before I posted on this forum with the other answer choice and saying how I got this question as well, I debated long and hard with myself about whether this was ethical. I determined it was for the reasons I outline below.
1.) Since this is a computer adaptive test, my questions test what my weaknesses are and attack those. Others may not even have the ability to get to this question no matter how they answer the other questions (think of it as a choose your own adventure book wher ehe turned to page 59 long ago and I turned to page 125)
2.) Since this is not like the SAT or ACT where I can order a question and answer service, I will NEVER be 100% certain what the correct answer was nor will anyone else. However, as part of continuing my education, I can get the rationale of others more experienced than I am, that is to say nearly everyone on this board.
3.) We are not posting every single question we got from the exam, in effect creating a database of questions.
4.) The database that the NREMT draws on is constantly rotated (I hear they do it every 2000 miles
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5.) This is not an aptitude test (like the SATs or ACTs) and doesn't try to measure your "smartness" or "intellegence" (the SATs and ACTs arguable do a poor job of that too, but that's a completely different argument that you can spend years on, and people have!). What it measures is do you know the certiain subjects you are required to know at the level we hope for? If the answer is yes, then how they got to that point is irrelavant. they can study and form their own opinions, ask for other opinions, or remember the answer for that scenario just beacuse they know it MIGHT be a test question. The end result is the same, the next time he confronts this woman, he will suspect preganacy.
6.) I studied quite a lot for this test--4 weeks of 11 hours a day of class, plus my own studying time on the weekends and evenings. From the day my class ended (a friday) to the day I took the test (a tuesday) I spent some additional time pouring over EMT test prep books! I didn't think to use the internet to find old questions, but had i used the internet, I would not have considered that a violation of my personal integrity, and I hold myself to very high integrity standards. The point is I learned what I need to know and when called upon in a similar situation, I owuld be able to handle the situation, and that's what the NREMT is testing right?
