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We have experienced changing our answer on a question we think is really hard. “I answered [A] but I am sure it is [C]”… After wasting minutes of thinking you finally decide to erase “A” and shade “C”. After checking the paper, you find out that the correct answer is unfortunately [A]. “Damn!”

According to Freud, the mind is divided into 3 structures. The Conscious, Preconscious/Subconscious, and unconscious. What you think and are being aware of NOW is the Conscious. If you read and discuss a topic it is conscious. After eating snacks your memory of what you just studied fades. It goes to the Subconscious. You can recall it but you need to think… a lot. After sometime, that information stored in the subconscious will be later absorbed by the unconscious and it will no longer be recoverable unless you re-read the book you got eh information from.

You become really good with MedSurg during the lecture but after the LMR lecture has clouded your mind, you tend to forget most of the MedSurg concepts… Correct? Haha! I’m sure this is true to almost everyone. Don’t worry guys, what you have learned is not lost. It’s just there. It’s just stored in the UNCONSCIOUS. If you study Medsurg again, it will be easier to memorize stuffs because your brain will tell you that you already have this information… you are just attempting to recover it.

Now, nursing is a very BROAD concept and you cannot bring it to the CONSCIOUS all at once when you face the board examination. So what now? Let your UNCONSCIOUS answer the paper. No, I am not telling you to effin sleep!! Die bitch! WHen you read the question, the first answer that you feel is correct i most likely the correct answer even if it is irrational. Why? it is because your unconscious is telling you the correct answer. You cannot rationalize it because it is absent in the conscious nor the subconscious yet you have read something about the question before and the information has been stored in the unconscious.

That’s it… I call this phenomenon the “UNCONSCIOUS ANSWERING”. Don’t change your first answers. It is most likely the correct answer and don’t mess up your answer sheet. Erasures during the board exam might be the reason why you fail so why take the risk?

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