2000 News

CGFNS publishes How to Take Tests

PHILADELPHIA, PA — MAY 1, 2000 — The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) has just announced releasing the publication How to Take Tests: Strategies for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam^SM and the NCLEX-RN^® examination. How to Take Tests is a follow-up to How to Study: Preparing for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam^SM and the NCLEX-RN^® examination, and is the second book in CGFNS’s new How to… series.

In this sequel, author Kay Bensing, MA, RN, MJ, returns to emphasize strategies for taking multiple-choice tests and techniques for reducing test anxieties. The goal is two-fold. First, to analyze test questions and to recognize clues within the questions themselves that lead to the correct answers. Second, to learn how to prepare for either exam, how to develop and maintain a positive attitude, and how to control stress.

After discussed techniques, sample test questions are given to demonstrate the specific strategies. Following the lessons are 50 sample test questions from a past CGFNS Qualifying Exam^SM that readers can take and apply their newly-learned, test-taking skills. Together, this How to Take Tests and How to Study contain valuable information readers can use to achieve top scores on the CGFNS Qualifying Exam^SM and the NCLEX-RN^® examination.

In addition to the How to Take Tests and How to Study series, there are additional study and resource aides available through contacting the CGFNS Customer Service Department, including the brand-new CGFNS Official Study Guide Fourth Edition. Also available are Regional Directories, containing the most up-to-date resource information on U.S. hospitals, nursing licensure agencies and INS offices, as well as our very popular Practice English Series Audio Tapes and Books. This spring all CGFNS products and services can be purchased on-line at www.cgfns.org.

To purchase the How to Take Tests or any of CGFNS’s other products and services, or for more information, please contact the friendly CGFNS Customer Service Department at (215) 349-8767.

CGFNS is an immigration-neutral, nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, PA, USA, and is an internationally recognized authority on education, registration and licensure of nurses worldwide. CGFNS’s mission is to provide responsible leadership in the delivery of relevant services to the global nursing and health care community. The organization was founded in 1977 through a collaborative effort by representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor; Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services); the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and representation from nursing organizations, including the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.