Weird first post, I know:
I've wanted to try EMS for almost twenty years and only recently got the opportunity to start a course. I have a new respect for what you guys do after busting my butt thru this thing. I have a decent average but I am freaking a little about the final exam, on which an 80 is required to sit for the cert exam, regardless of class average. Because I have been working (IT industry) almost the whole time I have been living on almost no sleep, and I just cram and cram before a test. But I feel like I've hot-washed it all out afterwards. Now I have the finals coming. The classroom tests have been a bear: I felt like it was basically narrowing down to the two correct answers and then just choosing one and praying. It really has been very confusing. Now we have the final which I've been told is nothing like the chapter tests, and I'm worried that between hot-washing the info out and a totally new format ... I could seriously screw this up. And I have turned down a couple of very good jobs to stay in the class. Failing the final would be an absolute disaster. I mean biblical proportions kind of disaster.
Any suggestions for studying for a con-ed final? I can't think of anything except start rereading the book from cover to cover again, because the online quizzes really didn't help much during the class. My hat is off to you guys who've done this.
Totally lost in NC.
I've wanted to try EMS for almost twenty years and only recently got the opportunity to start a course. I have a new respect for what you guys do after busting my butt thru this thing. I have a decent average but I am freaking a little about the final exam, on which an 80 is required to sit for the cert exam, regardless of class average. Because I have been working (IT industry) almost the whole time I have been living on almost no sleep, and I just cram and cram before a test. But I feel like I've hot-washed it all out afterwards. Now I have the finals coming. The classroom tests have been a bear: I felt like it was basically narrowing down to the two correct answers and then just choosing one and praying. It really has been very confusing. Now we have the final which I've been told is nothing like the chapter tests, and I'm worried that between hot-washing the info out and a totally new format ... I could seriously screw this up. And I have turned down a couple of very good jobs to stay in the class. Failing the final would be an absolute disaster. I mean biblical proportions kind of disaster.
Any suggestions for studying for a con-ed final? I can't think of anything except start rereading the book from cover to cover again, because the online quizzes really didn't help much during the class. My hat is off to you guys who've done this.
Totally lost in NC.