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Nursing School Study Guide

60-Minute Study Group Agenda

Unstructured group study drifts into comparing notes and complaining about the exam. This agenda keeps one hour honest: everyone retrieves, everyone teaches, everyone leaves with an assignment.

Bring one copy per person to every group session.

Target topic

Date / members

0:00 – 0:05

Set the target

Pick ONE topic for the session and write it below. A group that studies "everything for the exam" studies nothing.

0:05 – 0:15

Warm-up quiz

5 to 10 questions on the target topic, answered solo and closed-book. Group Quiz with a room code works, or one member reads questions aloud. Score honestly.

0:15 – 0:35

Teach-backs

Each person takes one concept the quiz exposed and teaches it in 3 minutes, no notes. Teaching is the fastest way to find out you do not actually know it.

0:35 – 0:50

Weak-spot drill

Re-quiz only what the group missed. Talk through the reasoning for every answer, right or wrong: what made the correct option correct and each distractor wrong.

0:50 – 1:00

Wrap and assign

Each person writes one thing to re-test solo this week and the group sets the next session's target topic. Then stop. Ending on time is why people come back.

Roles for next time (rotate them): quizmaster, timekeeper, skeptic

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