Trick Test

bols27 · Oct 4, 2011

I really appreciate the posts here and empathize completely with all of your situations. Perhaps I am just an over achiever, who knows. I was hesitant to go to a community college nursing program to begin with and I think I should have gone with my gut. I am a 4.0 student, having attended 2 major Big Ten universities as a pre-med/biology major. I have never had a problem in my life with school and now I feel like I am the worst student on the planet. We had 6 exams in our first class and every single one of them had multiple questions "thrown out." We were told in our orientation "if you got As before you can count on Bs and Cs now, we don't do As." Apparently they meant what they said. There are truly times when I feel that they try to do everything in their power to prevent As in the class. I had to befriend a student a level above me who had the same instructors so that I had any idea of what material I should concentrate on. Now when they say "you don't need to worry about this" in lecture I immediately highlight it and make sure to know it b/c 8/10 times it will be on the exam. I can also assume that most if not all of the lecture material will not be covered in any way whatsoever. I could go on all night with this but it isn't productive. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one in the world that felt this way. I know that my entire class feels the same way I do, I have even considered approaching the topic with the Dean of the department (she is a personal friend) after I finish with these instructors so as to not start them on a vendetta. They are both NPs locally, I can assure you that if they practice as they teach I would NEVER want either of them anywhere near me or my family. Hopefully it gets better after this class when we change instructors. This concludes my rant for the evening hahahah thank you for reading.

kalyani · Oct 4, 2011

Wow, bols27, I feel like I'm having an identical experience to yours!

But, I've come to realize, my school is just underfunded and understaffed, and maybe that is where the problem truly lies.

I too received my bachelor's degree from a reputable University and the way the counselors, teachers and even administrative staff treated the students there was like night and day compared to this community college. but, I'm slowly learning which people/teachers in the program are actually are helpful, and just steering clear of the teachers/people who aren't, and trying to do my work as best I can. In earlier posts, I've mentioned that I really wish I could transfer elsewhere, but I've come this far, so I'm just going to suck it up and deal with it.

kalyani · Oct 4, 2011

Ooops! :nurse:

Aholmes2012 · Oct 7, 2011

I can totally feel the pain. I am a second year nursing student and I have had to go to our nursing director several times, complaining that we spent hours reading and preparing for a test to find completely different material on the test or incorrect information. I ask questions about material I don't understand and have been told figure it out. Yes, self-determined education is good, but I am in nursing school so I can learn. What do we do to be successful? So discouraged :eek: