I have everything planned to get into nursing school, I finished high school but I failed many things that had to do with reading, mostly because I could not keep up with the class....
On a test on reading comprehension, they give 2-3 paragraph stories and then you have to answer questions from the story, I have to re-read the short story about 5 times!!! Or read each sentence in that story over and over and over!!!!!!! Then when I look at the questions I reread the story again!!!! I always have had this problem. I can look at the problems first and then skim through the story but I still can't figure out the answer!!! Then when reading directions it takes me 3 times to understand it...also I am always the last person to finish a test, my friends get an A in that section and they read it once and answer all the questions...... I will fail timed tests... I always get embarrassed also, because everyone was finished with a test which has to do with reading comprehension and they finished it 45min before me... The teacher waits until I'm done, and sometimes they get mad at me because they think I'm not doing my test.... I hate this so much and my mom even says she always had this kind of reading problem.. My dad can read 3 paragraphs and tell me everything he just read.. When I read a sentence slowly I still don't know what the hell I read..
Will I fail nursing school because of this???? Or college, cause I have to take 4-5 classes each semester!!!
I can't do anything if I can't read good.... All of you will tell me I need to find another thing I want to do but I don't want to work at walmart or a 35k a year job. All jobs that pay good require study and note taking!!!
Being a nurse by the time you are 30 must be the worst thing in the world. Many of the posters here seem to be in a race to achieve everything before that age
AddisonLawrence03
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Being a nurse by the time you are 30 must be the worst thing in the world. Many of the posters here seem to be in a race to achieve everything before that age