Ever Pass a Test and Still Not Feel Good About it?

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Like, taken a test, find out ya passed, but still come out of it not feeling like you learned much?

I guess I just need some reassurance, haha.
 
har har.

But that's what I mean. I mean, I study (I live, breath and **** medic right now) and I went in feeling good about it, and I passed, but we were tested in groups, and we struggled as a whole. Granted, sure, we probably had some test anxiety, and we DID pass, but I came out of there feeling "maybe I don't know this as well as I thought I did."
 
I think you will feel better about what you perceive you have learned or not learned when you actually start using it. Practicing it and doing it for real are two very different things. And all the important stuff that you thought you will never remember will just click into place. All the repetitive phrases that you got really sick of in class, will remind you of what you have to do. When you start to apply what you have learned to real patients I think your confidence will increase.

Everyone has this nightmare image in their mind at some point, some poor soul will call 911 someday and they're going to get ME? You will do fine. Just try to be the best student you can. You then in-turn become a great EMT or Paramedic.
 
Thanks, Knight.

Maybe you're right. I did have this anxiety during my B class. But it feels worse than I remember going through my medic.

I mean I'm putting a lot into the course. Today is my cardiac written exam and the next class is my midterm. So my stress levels are pretty elevated right now...
 
TornWingedAngel1 said:
Thanks, Knight.

Maybe you're right. I did have this anxiety during my B class. But it feels worse than I remember going through my medic.

I mean I'm putting a lot into the course. Today is my cardiac written exam and the next class is my midterm. So my stress levels are pretty elevated right now...
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There's a company out there called knightlite that some students have used with success. Might help guide your studies and help you feel more relaxed and confident. I will also mention the more you learn the more you come to understand how little you actually know. This is one of the reasons you see emt's bad mouth Paramedics, Paramedics bad mouth doctors, etc.

Oh here found the site. http://www.knightlite.com/
 
Any exam is designed to really test the minimum requirements of knowledge and/or skill in an area.

They say 70% of learning is done out of the formal education environment so to that end if you feel like you know only the bare basics of the area you got tested in, I am not surpised nor would I be too concerned.

I know from my own experience that having passed the course exams(s) and gone to use that knowledge I was struck by how easy it was to stare a situation we had learnt about in the face and go "WTF do I do here?"
 
Op, good!

Basic training is like painting by numbers. Now you will see real pts. Just make sure you have good preceptors, ask questions, listen up, and beware the "fast burners" who claim to know it all fresh out of school.
 
Ya... recently I took a test with the one Ambulance Company I would give my right nut to work for. I have been an EMT for 9 years and I know my stuff, but this test was so poorly written that often I felt like taking the 4 multiple choice answers and writting in "E. NONE OF THE ABOVE". I left the test REALLY unsure. Only half of the people taking the test got interviews, I got my interview, so either I scored high or just not as low as half the EMTs... :P However, I still would like to know my overall score and which SWAGs were correct and which questions were just too tricky for me. I have no clue how I passed this FUBAR test. Seriously, can we come up with difficult tests that have one correct answer?

PS... can I hae an opinion? What do you think it means when out of 10 people who passed the test, you were the first one who was called and set up an appointment for an interview? Do you think that the best score got their first choice of interview? Did they start with the last name on the list? Did they randomly call people up? Or was I just the one person with no life who actually answered their phone and that is why I go my choice of interview time? NEVER MIND... DON'T ANSWER... I KNOW... I am overthinking it... but what would you expect from good ol' Mountain... :wacko:
 
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