Send us your exam questions. We send them back checked.
For nursing faculty, tutors and small test-prep sellers who write their own questions. A wrong key, an out-of-date guideline or a question students can answer without reading it ends up in front of students more often than anyone likes. We find those and send back a fixed version of each one, by email.
Every question is checked, and every fix is signed off by our RN reviewer: MSN-prepared, and a former New York State EMT.
Key check. Is the keyed answer right? Two separate checks against a current source. Where they disagree, the RN rules.
Current-guideline check. Caught when the care changed: the 2025 AHA CPR and ACLS guidelines, the 2026 NCLEX test plans, drugs that left the US market.
Blind test: can it be guessed? We read only the answer choices, with no question. If the key is obvious from the choices alone, the question isn't testing anything.
One-best-answer check. No two right answers, no "all of the above" traps, no wording that gives the key away.
A fixed version of every flagged question, with a one-line reason and the source.
You get back a spreadsheet, one row per question (OK or fix, the reason, the fixed text, a link to the source), and a one-page summary.
Key: at least 2 inches (5 cm), no more than 2.4 inches.
AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC, adult BLS
2
OK
Key right, one best answer, not guessable from the choices.
No change.
AHA, anaphylaxis: IM epinephrine first
3
Fix
Blind test: the key is the only long, detailed choice, so it can be picked without reading the question.
Three wrong choices rewritten to the same length and detail.
NBME Item-Writing Guide, option length
4
Fix
"All of the above" is the key. Spotting two right choices gives it away.
Rewritten as one best answer with four single choices.
NBME Item-Writing Guide
5
Fix
Key says to give syrup of ipecac after a child swallows a poison at home. Pediatric guidance dropped that in 2003.
Key changed to "Call Poison Control (1-800-222-1222)"; stem kept.
AAP policy statement, Poison Treatment in the Home, 2003
Sample rows written for this page, not from a customer's file.
Packages
One-time prices. No subscription, no contract. New schools start with the pilot; Spot and Full Checks are for schools that have done one. We set every delivery date with you after we've seen the file, because 50 short questions and 50 case studies are not the same job.
Pilot: start here
$249
Up to 50 nursing or EMS questions. One correction pass. A spreadsheet with a source link on every row. Delivery date agreed after we see your file.
Paid already? Email your questions (or your outline) to hello@headedin.com. We reply within 2 business days with a delivery date. If we can't agree on one, you get a full refund.
Free 5-question sample for faculty, programs, tutors and prep sellers with a real file to check. Tell us who you are, the exam or course, and how many questions the whole file has: ask for a sample. One per school or business.
Need a quote or an invoice for a purchase order? Email hello@headedin.com before you pay and we'll send one.
How a pilot works
Email up to 50 questions to hello@headedin.com, with the keys, the exam or course, and when you need them back.
Within 2 business days we reply with a delivery date and a payment link. Nothing is checked until you pay.
On that date you get the spreadsheet and a one-page summary by email.
One correction pass. Send back your edits to the flagged questions within 30 days and we check those edits once.
The rules, in plain words
AI-assisted, RN-reviewed. AI does the first pass on every question. Our RN reviewer reads every flagged question and every fix, and signs off on the file before it goes back to you.
Your questions stay yours. They never go into Hall Pass or any other bank, and we never share them.
Files are deleted 30 days after delivery.
Nursing and EMS only, to start. That's what our licenses cover. Another field? Email us. We'll only take it on with a licensed reviewer from that field.
No pass-rate promises. Better questions help students learn. Hall Monitor doesn't promise your students a score or a pass rate.
What we take
Multiple-choice and select-all questions for nursing or EMS courses and exam prep, each with its keyed answer.
Word, Excel, CSV, PDF, plain text in the email, or an LMS export.
A case study with several questions counts each question on its own. A question with a picture or strip counts as one.
Only questions you have the right to share: ones you or your school wrote, or bought the rights to. We don't review live or recalled licensing exam items, or questions copied from someone else's bank.
What not to send
No student names, grades, scores or answers. No patient names or anything else that could identify a patient.
If a file has any of that, we delete it without reading further and ask for a clean copy. The delivery date moves with it.
No passwords or LMS logins. We never ask for them.
How your file is handled
Files come in by email to hello@headedin.com and stay in one private folder for your job.
The AI first pass uses a paid AI service. If your school doesn't allow AI tools on its questions, tell us before you send and we'll say whether we can check it by hand and what that costs.
Your file, our working copies and the emails with your file attached are deleted 30 days after delivery. Want it sooner? Ask, and we'll delete it and tell you when it's done.
We never use your questions to write our own, and we never show them to anyone else.
What "checked" means, and what it doesn't
It means: each question went through the four checks above. Each flagged question has a reason, a fixed version and a source, and our RN reviewer read every flag and every fix.
"OK" means we found no problem in those four checks. It doesn't mean the question is perfect or fits your course outline.
It doesn't mean a promise about scores or pass rates, approval by NCSBN, NREMT, a board or an accreditor, or advice for patient care. Your faculty keep the final say on every question.
Corrections, dates and refunds
One correction pass on the pilot: send your edits to the flagged questions within 30 days and we check them once. More rounds, or rewriting questions we didn't flag, is a new order.
Our mistakes get fixed free. If we got a key or a source wrong, tell us within 30 days of delivery.
Dates. We set the delivery date with you in writing after seeing the file. If we miss it, you can ask for a full refund, or wait and pay nothing extra.
Refunds. Full refund any time before we start, or if we can't agree on a date. Refunds go back to your card through Stripe.
We run Hall Pass: more than 56,000 free practice questions for more than 120 license exams, every one with a cited why. Those banks get the same checks on a schedule: a nightly fix list, a 2025 AHA sweep that fixed about 410 questions in one audit, and the blind test on every big bank. The blind test is how we found, and rewrote, 765 of 1,000 counselor questions in our own Hall Pass bank. Hall Monitor itself checks nursing and EMS questions for now.
A nursing instructor at a college of nursing already uses Hall Pass with her class. Teaching nursing too? Class Board sets course-by-course practice for your students.
Free downloads
Hall Monitor on one page (PDF): what we check, the pilot, prices and how to reach us. Made to forward to a dean or program director.
Item writing checklist (PDF, 2 pages): stems, options, distractors, cueing, NGN case studies, bias and fairness. Every line cites a public source (NCSBN, NBME, the testing Standards).
We also catch people posing as you online: Copycat Watch.
Hall Monitor is a service of Headed In LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida. Not affiliated with or endorsed by NCSBN, NREMT or any exam maker. NCLEX® is a registered trademark of NCSBN.
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