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Tips On Exam Writing - Preparing for My CNA Nurse Certification Exam

The experience of exam writing is something I became quite familiar with over the course of my psychology, sociology, and nursing degrees. When I was doing my first two undergrad degrees in sociology and psychology more than a decade ago one of my favorite evaluation tools was the multiple-choice exam. In that time period at the University of Calgary, all first, second (and often third-year) sociology and psychology classes were so large that the primary evaluation method was multiple-choice testing. I was very familiar with them, I wrote a lot of them, I was good at them in the sense that I frequently got most answers correct.  Mastery or False Confidence?  I mastered writing multiple-choice exams as a necessity when I was a second-year student trying to get into the competitive faculty of psychology because demand was so high and it was so competitive. The mastery increased in my third year because class sizes were so large and multiple-choice exams were the go-to evaluation...