TIME UP!
In the spirit of my induction into nursing profession, I decided to share one particular experience I would never forget, perhaps there's something to learn from it. It was my first test as a fresh undergraduate of nursing science in the University of Ibadan. The anatomy test, embryology in particular, was to last for 15 minutes, 3 questions. It was an essay, so believe me when I say 5 minutes was far from being enough to attempt one question. 5 minutes is probably not enough to think and organize your thoughts actually not to talk of writing it down. Anyway, I had read and prepared well, when the questions were given, mehn, I had a lot to write down even drawings to back my answers since in anatomy, your drawings earn you more marks. The examiner said we should start, I had no wrist watch to manage my time with, yet I had this enormous ideas to write down but limited time. I had just finished answering the 2nd question in the 2nd answer sheet when I heard "time up" We