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Feb 2025
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183. High Stakes Exam Success - with Dr ...

WILLIAM WADSWORTH
About this episode

This week on the show:

  • Top tips for learning for high stakes exams
  • Maintaining your sense of self-worth and protecting your mental health
  • 4 top tips for keeping test-taking nerves at bay
  • Advice for prospective / current nursing students

Our guest today is Dr Morgan Taylor, an experienced advisor to nursing students. Today's conversation is mainly quite general and non-nursing specific, and relevant to anyone preparing for any high-stakes exam, though we do also dive into Morgan's specific passion and expertise for studying nursing towards the end of the interview.

Dr Morgan Taylor is the founder and Chief Nursing Officer at Archer Review, a leading study platform for NCLEX, FNP, TEAS 7, USMLE and nursing school exams.

  • https://www.archerreview.com/
  • Follow Morgan and her company on social @ArcherReview

Also mentioned in today's episode:

  • Ep 42 with Prof. Timothy Wilson https://examstudyexpert.com/redirect-timothy-wilson/
  • Student stories episodes 69/77 (Rose, high school student) and 73 (Michael, college student)

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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

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Podcast Edited by Kerri Edinburgh.

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