How do you compress four years (or nearly so) of knowledge into one test? Its called NAVLE and it is six sections of 60 questions for which you have 65 minutes each. Its a bit stressful.
Today, I took the NAVLE.
So I think that I did okay. I mean there's so much stuff on it and I've been preparing for it for a while. After the first few questions, I pondered if it was going to get progressively harder. I don't know if it did. There were so many times when I wondered if I was even going in the right direction. I kept feeling that unlike VetPrep, I wasn't getting the full story or the answers offered to me were lacking some of the things. Such as answer A would be right but only if it inclued parts of C or if this happened too. Sigh.
I had grand plans about studying. I registered for VetPrep over the summer but was scared to get to far into it too fast, less I finish it way before the test date. However, in my conservation, I didn't finish. I think I have about 600 questions left. My grand plans for studying included an hour every night and two on Saturday and Sunday. An hour became an hour mixed with Facebook, blogging and FarmTown. House was on TV. The dogs really needed to be out. The Golden Girls were on. I fell asleep with the cat. I mean there were endless possiblites that would distract me from my appointed duty of studying. We all know that I'm bad at it anyway. As NAVLE drew closer, I told my friends 'NO! I can't go out with you I have to study!' And by study, I meant have good intentions for studying and ended up asleep on the bed with the cat. (Bess played a strong role in my distractions from studying.)
I can't do anything about it now. I can't go back. I have to wait to see if I did well. And if not, I need to find $500 and take it again in April.
I did however learn that while taking the NAVLE, you can't put your hands in your hoodie pocket. All of those things, those little innocent things, that you do when you're not thinking such as putting your hands in your pockets, taking down and putting up your hair, etc, you can't do. If you do, the proctor lady will come up behind you and tell you to stop. Then your concentration is broken.
When I got home, Joe asked me how it went. I told him about putting your hands in your pockets. About my friend from Cornell that got in trouble for putting up her hood. Anyway, he asked if not having common sense was a prereq for vet students. That was totally the wrong response. What sort of jerk says something like that? Joe. He says those things alot. Sigh.
[EDIT-Originally posted to Blogger on 11/26/11]
Today, I took the NAVLE.
So I think that I did okay. I mean there's so much stuff on it and I've been preparing for it for a while. After the first few questions, I pondered if it was going to get progressively harder. I don't know if it did. There were so many times when I wondered if I was even going in the right direction. I kept feeling that unlike VetPrep, I wasn't getting the full story or the answers offered to me were lacking some of the things. Such as answer A would be right but only if it inclued parts of C or if this happened too. Sigh.
I had grand plans about studying. I registered for VetPrep over the summer but was scared to get to far into it too fast, less I finish it way before the test date. However, in my conservation, I didn't finish. I think I have about 600 questions left. My grand plans for studying included an hour every night and two on Saturday and Sunday. An hour became an hour mixed with Facebook, blogging and FarmTown. House was on TV. The dogs really needed to be out. The Golden Girls were on. I fell asleep with the cat. I mean there were endless possiblites that would distract me from my appointed duty of studying. We all know that I'm bad at it anyway. As NAVLE drew closer, I told my friends 'NO! I can't go out with you I have to study!' And by study, I meant have good intentions for studying and ended up asleep on the bed with the cat. (Bess played a strong role in my distractions from studying.)
I can't do anything about it now. I can't go back. I have to wait to see if I did well. And if not, I need to find $500 and take it again in April.
I did however learn that while taking the NAVLE, you can't put your hands in your hoodie pocket. All of those things, those little innocent things, that you do when you're not thinking such as putting your hands in your pockets, taking down and putting up your hair, etc, you can't do. If you do, the proctor lady will come up behind you and tell you to stop. Then your concentration is broken.
When I got home, Joe asked me how it went. I told him about putting your hands in your pockets. About my friend from Cornell that got in trouble for putting up her hood. Anyway, he asked if not having common sense was a prereq for vet students. That was totally the wrong response. What sort of jerk says something like that? Joe. He says those things alot. Sigh.
[EDIT-Originally posted to Blogger on 11/26/11]
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