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I’m your host Sarah Michelle. Now, let’s dive into today’s episode.  \nHey, hey everyone, it's Anna again. I hope you are doing well and enjoying this wonderful season, I know I certainly am. We have tons of recent graduates gearing up to take their exams, which always gets me excited because I know that means tons of passing posts are coming soon and those are my absolute favorite.  \nWith this popular testing season among us, I thought I would discuss a pretty common question we get from students today. And that is exactly how do I dissect and walk myself through tougher exam questions? I am going to provide you with some example questions today and walk you through them, as well as give some tips and tricks that really helped me get through tricky questions.  \nI want you going into testing feeling fully prepared to tackle longer information filled questions, especially if you're taking the AANP as it is notorious for these longer questions. Not to say ANCC can't have them. So let's get going.  \nThe first key to dissecting and answering longer or trickier questions is knowing how questions are made. I know this is kind of silly, but knowing how the exams work and how questions are constructed can truly help you get through all of the fluff and to the root of what is being asked. This can also give you a much needed confidence boost. And we know that when you are feeling confident, you are in the best possible place you can be to rock that exam.  \nWith that being said, questions on the AANP and ANCC are constructed in similar manners. Questions, at their core, are made up of a lead-in or a scenario and then stems. Now, these lead-ins or scenarios, they may be longer, they may include patient information, they may be simple just recall stems that are pretty short questions. The more difficult type of question is  \ndefinitely the ones with the longer lead-ins and stems with those patient scenarios.  \nAnother tip I really, really encourage everyone to use is when these questions come up, read the last part of the question first. I know that seems silly and kind of backwards, but it really can help narrow down what the stem of the question is asking and how we can get to the right answer.  \nSo, for me, when I saw a huge, long question, I took a deep breath. Sometimes even just like put my head down for a moment if I felt like I needed it. And then I got to reading the stem, or that very last sentence first. This allowed me to ask myself, okay, what is this question looking for? What do I need to come up with from this question or the scenario specifically?  \nThen I would go back, read the entirety of the question. What this did was it allowed my brain to sort through any of the fluff because I already knew what I was looking for.  \nAnother tactic that I like to have in my back pocket is what I call the odd duck rule. The odd duck rule means that you look through the answer choices and see which one or which ones look like odd ducks. By odd ducks, I mean the one that doesn't belong. The one with the crazy fluffy hair and is swimming in circles.  \nThere's a saying in healthcare that if you hear hooves, you think horses and not zebras. So we want to try and use this idea to take out any answers that just totally do not belong or are not viable. Even though this seems crazy, it happens more than you think. So often students come back and say, “I was easily able to throw out one to two answers, which really helped me narrow it down.”  \nSo just thinking to ourselves, which answer choice is totally out of left field and definitely not viable can be a really helpful strategy. Not only does this help us focus on our only viable answer choices, but even if we had absolutely no idea at a","cbCaiv7IwP8Tr0C9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv7IwP8Tr0C9","pdf",150689,"English","# Dissecting Longer Exam Questions\n## How AANP and ANCC Questions Are Constructed\n## Read the Last Part First\n## Odd Duck Rule for Answer Choices\n## Highlighting and Cross-Out Strategy\n## Using Key Words (Priority/Best/Next)\n# Worked Example Question","[{\"question\":\"How should you approach longer exam questions during AANP/ANCC board prep?\",\"answer\":\"Start by understanding that questions usually have a lead-in or scenario plus stems. Then read the last part of the question first to identify what it is asking before you read the full question.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the “odd duck rule” mentioned in the transcript?\",\"answer\":\"Scan the answer choices to find the one(s) that look clearly out of place or non-viable. 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