Times must have changed - I remember when I done nursing we were one of the first guinea pigs to do the new degree course - and the amount of role play that we done for communication was enough to make me want to avoid role play - let alone the PTSD!
Like you, we had a mixture of continuous assessments, exams and then we had competency assessments that must be passed on clinical placements. Brings me back!
I have to agree, continuous assessments gives you far more structure and they are a much better format of academic assessment. There's, also there's the fact that you dont have to study everything under the sun, and trawl through past exam papers in the hope that you may get some divine wisdom into what's going to appear in the actual exam paper.
Sometimes with exams - its just pure hit and miss - and alot also depends on how you feel on the day! I know for my second degree and even in nursing we use to get good tips from the lecturer's on what was coming up in the written exams - some lecturers were quite generous with their tips...either that or they felt we were all a bunch of no hopers and we were all going to fail if we didnt get the tips:).
I was the same, I only disclosed what was going on to a few close friends in college...I saw no need to tell them, other than three close friends at the time! For me, it wasnt important that any of my class mates knew, alot were much younger than me second time around, and there was also a privacy issues - and then again very few would have known what PTSD was!
Its important however, that college and your work placements know - and its not that you get special treatment - its so you can get the supports to finish you placements, do your assignments to the best of your ability, and gain your qualification which is your ultimate aim in the end. It's in their interest that you qualify!
Its good that you take time out - there's only so much study and work - and sometimes you just need time to chill! When I think back on it, my college day's were the best - I've got some good memories to hold onto in the midst of all the dispair that was actually going on at the time. And the best reward of all is graduation day - and when you log onto the website and see you've passed your finals! In my day, they use to post all our results up on the college notice board along with our names before they finally copped onto using std number's:eek:!
Like you, we had a mixture of continuous assessments, exams and then we had competency assessments that must be passed on clinical placements. Brings me back!
I have to agree, continuous assessments gives you far more structure and they are a much better format of academic assessment. There's, also there's the fact that you dont have to study everything under the sun, and trawl through past exam papers in the hope that you may get some divine wisdom into what's going to appear in the actual exam paper.
Sometimes with exams - its just pure hit and miss - and alot also depends on how you feel on the day! I know for my second degree and even in nursing we use to get good tips from the lecturer's on what was coming up in the written exams - some lecturers were quite generous with their tips...either that or they felt we were all a bunch of no hopers and we were all going to fail if we didnt get the tips:).
I was the same, I only disclosed what was going on to a few close friends in college...I saw no need to tell them, other than three close friends at the time! For me, it wasnt important that any of my class mates knew, alot were much younger than me second time around, and there was also a privacy issues - and then again very few would have known what PTSD was!
Its important however, that college and your work placements know - and its not that you get special treatment - its so you can get the supports to finish you placements, do your assignments to the best of your ability, and gain your qualification which is your ultimate aim in the end. It's in their interest that you qualify!
Its good that you take time out - there's only so much study and work - and sometimes you just need time to chill! When I think back on it, my college day's were the best - I've got some good memories to hold onto in the midst of all the dispair that was actually going on at the time. And the best reward of all is graduation day - and when you log onto the website and see you've passed your finals! In my day, they use to post all our results up on the college notice board along with our names before they finally copped onto using std number's:eek:!
