Out of all the CAT adaptive exams we are going to take for this course, the pharmacology exam was going to give me the most trouble. For this exam I felt that for not being too confident in my pharmacology knowledge, I think it went fairly well. I was able to sit down and focus on the assignment at hand for the most part. With the number of questions, I had to answer I felt myself towards the end not having 100% focus on the assignment and it led to many stupid mistakes. Some of those included answering the math questions. For questions I typically get correct on these exams, I found myself making mistakes like missing a decimal or miss typing the number for the answer. A second test strategy that I felt went well for this CAT exam was I went through some of the old slide shows we had from pharmacology to try and shake off any of the old cobwebs and did a quick refresher. While I was skeptical at first to do it because I figured it might not be the most helpful thing ended up really helping me answer some of the questions.
For the next adaptive quiz we need to take, I have some positive takeaways from this exam to use. Having an environment that allows me to sit down and really focus on the questions and not be distracted by outside factors really helped me do well on this exam. Along with just even skimming over some notes or some book chapters can be very beneficial. Finally, I need to make sure I am giving myself a break if the exam ends up being long. Towards the end I was getting frustrated with the fact that it wasn’t ending which led to me not paying attention to what I was doing and just submitting questions to get through them. This ultimately led up to me making more work for myself.
