Which term best describes the NP student's feelings that good grades and evaluations are due to luck?

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Impostor phenomenon is at play here. It describes the experience of high-achieving individuals who doubt their own competence and worry that others will realize they’re not really as capable as they appear. They often attribute successes like good grades or favorable evaluations to luck or external factors rather than their own skills, and they fear being exposed as a fraud despite evidence of their competence. This differs from an identity crisis, which is a disruption in one’s sense of self; role confusion, which involves uncertainty about one’s social or occupational roles; and a resocialization process, which is about adopting new norms in a different environment.