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Review Your Answer Choices

October 8, 2019 by David Woodruff

Once you have completed the exam, go back over your answers to make sure you answered all the questions. The exam software should alert you to unanswered questions. If you have no idea what the question is asking, answer anyway. Even if flipping a coin, you will have a 25% chance of being correct. After …

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How to Study for Certification When You’re Busy

October 7, 2019 by David Woodruff

No one has free time to study for certification. If there is extra time in your day, someone will fill it for you if you have no free time but have certification as a goal you will need to find opportunities to study. Fortunately for you, studying in small short chunks is more effective than …

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Watch Out for Similar Terms

October 4, 2019 by David Woodruff

Nursing uses prefixes hyper and hypo frequently when referring to blood pressure, electrolytes, and even bowel sounds. The problem is that hyper and hypo sound alike, especially when connected to a suffix. For our purposes, hyper and hypo also read-alike, making discerning the two difficult. Add in the stress of an exam, and you could …

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Certification Tips: Analyzing the Stem

October 3, 2019 by David Woodruff

Test-takers may think they know what the question is asking before reading it and skip right to the answer they think is correct. This can be a mistake because the author may have written the question to trick those who are not careful. Certification exams include such items to be sure you are thorough in …

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