Candidate performance report or your CPR report.
If you've gotten to the point where you've taken the exam and
unfortunately did not pass, or you've taken it multiple times,
you receive one of these via e-mail and or via mail and you
look at it and you're kind of like, OK, what does ACPR report
really mean? What does my candidate
performance report really mean? Well, as the next Gen. came out,
the CPR report has actually added in a little bit more
specificity. It used to be 9 categories, now
it's up to 15 categories. There's only three different
levels that they give you. Either you're below you're near
passing or you're above passing. What does that mean?
What do these subjects mean? How do I interpret it?
What do I do moving forward? So as you look through it,
you'll get these 3 pages. The 1st 2 pages are basically
kind of an explanation of who you are and what you can get
where. You can get other resources if
you kind of want to look at it. But even if you look at these
resources, they still don't give you a little bit of insight or
detailed insight that you need in order to pass this exam the
next time you take it. So how do I interpret it?
Well, let's take a look at this example.
One, if we look at this, we've got the different domains on the
side, management of care, safety, health, promotion,
psychosocial, so on and so forth.
As you read through each one of these and the description, you
kind of look at them, you're like, what does that really
mean? Like, am I bad at cardio?
Am I bad at maternity? Am I bad at farm?
Am I bad at fundamentals? It doesn't really give you that
because a lot of these things like basic care and comfort, OK,
that's its own subject. But how about like provides and
directs nursing care of the client that incorporates
knowledge of expected growth and development principles.
OK, What does that really mean? OK, growth and development, I
get that. But again, it's still a little
vague. Like what?
What do you really tell me? Growth and development, What
growth development or in general or what about everything that
I've studied so far, whatever program you've used, whatever Q
Bank you've used, how does this relate to your CPR?
What I look at is the fact that the Nclex are actually on a
curve. Well, if you're doing above
passing, well, you're above the curve, right?
So just kind of think about the curve if you're above, well,
you're doing better than the average.
If you're near passing, you could be kind of right there,
but not necessarily at the average.
And if you're below, well, we're definitely weaker in a lot of
different areas. When I interpret these for my
students, when I look at them, I look at the fact that there are
15 different domains and the performance level in general, if
you look at it in this situation, we'll go one by one.
We've got near passing 123 and that's it.
There's only three near passing, so let's take that into
consideration for this student. Three near passing.
Then I look at my above passing. So we've got one 2, looks like
323. So now we've got three above
passing. OK, so I'll keep that into
consideration. Three above passing, which means
just by default, doing the math, I already know how many below
they got. There's only fifteen of these
domains, so the remainder of them are going to be 9 below.
Passing. In this situation, if I was
talking to my student I'm looking at, I'm saying, wait a
minute, well, we've only got 3 that were above that curve,
which means that if majority of people are right at this median,
then only three or three domains were you above them.
I tell my students all the time, when you're looking at a
question, if 40% of people got them right, you should be doing
higher than that 50%, definitely higher than that.
If they're scoring 60 or 70, the majority of people, you better
get those right. So that's going to set you apart
and make you pass. So somebody like this, I would
probably anticipate was probably 85 and out.
Well, not in a good way, but there were 85, which means that
the adaptive test was noticing that guess what, in nine of
these domains I'm below passing standard.
What does that mean? What should I do?
Because I don't know how to study based off of this, like
how many people show you. OK, well, let's go through each
one of these. No, the way that I teach my
students is what, system by system and breaking down
questions, test taking strategies, system by system,
which is all-encompassing. It's going to include all of
these domains. So as I'm teaching you cardio,
as I'm teaching you infectious disease, as I'm teaching
maternity, as I'm teaching growth and development
fundamentals, endocrine, all of these topics are all in there.
So there's no reason to sit there and say let me just do
analysis of cues. I don't see that.
Oh, I don't understand how this is more understanding testing
strategies, looking at your case studies now, looking at what you
can grasp those clues. Like when I break down questions
and as you watch me do break, or as you watch me breakdown
questions on these other videos that I have, watch those
analysis of cues, watch all that testing strategies.
That hypothesis, what am I doing with the hypothesis?
How about prioritization? Yeah, how about differential
diagnosis? Things like that.
They're all-encompassing, and if you learn your content
completely, you learn your testing strategies completely.
In this student, for instance, I would say we need to work on
everything. If only three were near and only
three were above, the good majority of people are probably
getting more near and above than they are compared to the
student. Now with your CPR report, hey,
obviously everything is different.
I can't say, oh, if you've got this many above, this many near
this many below that, this is what you should do, because
every single student is individual.
That's why I say fill out the form and we'll go over it.
We'll make a game plan. Let's figure out what you need
to do to pass your exam, and if you've taken it multiple times,
fine. I want your most recent CPR
report because the most recent one's going to tell me where you
stand at this moment. But there's so many variables
involved. What queue, bank use?
Did you finish it? What program you used?
How did you like it? What supplemental programs did
you use or what supplemental textbooks and things of that
nature did you use? How is your schooling?
How's your anxiety levels? There's so many.
How long have you been out of school?
How many attempts have you had? All these different things are
variables that I take into account on top of your CPR
report that gives me the full picture.
And if I don't have a full picture, I can't just
generically say, well, this is what you should be doing.
If this is what your CPR report says, that's like a student
asking me, well, Doctor Z, if I take your program, can I pass in
four weeks? You could, but there's a lot of
different variables involved. Some people pass in four weeks,
some people need six months because they do different
variables. So with the CPR report, again,
it is very subjective to each individual student, which is why
I'm offering the ability to talk to me or my team regarding your
CPR report, because I do want to ask other questions.
I want to get a full idea of what's going on.
So when you get this, keep it, don't lose it, Save it with you.
And if you do want to talk to myself or my team who are all
being trained in this exact situation as well to to consider
the variables, to look at your CPR report, so on and so forth.
We would love, love, love to help our community out, to help
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