GRADUATES
They are calling me!! They want me to know how awesome they did on their ARRT examination. They all love this preliminary score that shows up when they complete the exam. Thanks ARRT for this. And so far, I have been most proud of all of them. Then they ask me, do you want to know anything about the exam, like what I remember about it? Don't I want to be able to help others with their exam? And I reply, " No thank you" because as a director who in many years past accompanied graduates to the test site and remained until they were finished to inquire about what questions were on this exam, I don't do that anymore. I don't ask them, and I remind them not to tell me or others because ethically it is cheating. I want to know though, who wouldn't. And they want to tell me, because they are either proud of something they remembered or saw something they were clueless about. But it is important to practice what I preach, because isn't that what we are trying to teach them? Showing them that ethical practice is better than a grade on a test is a good way to demonstrate what we have tried to teach them. But I want to know, and wanting is OK.
As educators, we do know what exactly is fair game on the registry as we all use the same standardized curriculum. We know how many questions will be asked in each category, and you should have known this also. If you looked in the back of the ARRT Application booklet in the Content Specifications section, it breaks it down for you into categories, sections and number of questions in each section. But it would not be fair for us to know the exact questions to be asked. And if you recall, they are asking 10 questions in Biological Aspects of Radiation, but there are a huge number of questions they could choose from. So believe it or not, we all do try and cover everything. But as you are aware, there is alot of information to cover. And that is a separate issue from having students tell us what was on the examination.