Desperate Need Help from RN students who make A's and B's consistently

[Txborn82]

I am desperate and I need help from RN students who make A's and B's consistently I apologize in advance to students who make C's. I need to know step by step what you do do prepare for exams because I obviously have not found how to do this. Prior to nursing school I was an honor student both in high school and in college however, now that I am in RN school I am below average. It does not matter how I prepare for my exams I am consistently getting C's on exams and I just don't understand what I am doing wrong and since I am heading into my 3rd semester and the fact that I failed my hesi exam by 9 questions (83%) I am extremely worried that I will not pass the NCLEX, RN school and have no chance of going to graduate school. At this point I am desperate and need strategies. I have read other posts and I already do these suggestions so now I am asking for help from students who consistently make A's and B's and have RN school down to a science. Currently what I do is read the text book, read the powerpoints, relisten to lectures online and do anywhere from 300-600 ?'s per exam and the questions that I get wrong I read the rationales and majority of the time the problem is that I did not go with my gut feeling or I picked the second best answer. Towards the end of the semester I just got frustrated and stopped studying and just attended lecture and maybe 100-200 questions and what was surprising is that I still made the exact same grades that I did when I studied 10-30 hrs per week. My self esteem is very low and I am begining to give up and just admit defeat. I have talked to my instructors, other students in my class but for some reason the students at my school usually say that they don't study and those who are honest I am going the same strategies that they use so I just don't know what else to do. Today I broke down and cried when I failed my HESI because it was the last straw. I am just tired of just barely passing and no one seems to be able to help me. Allnurses seems to give great advice and I am just hoping that someone around the world will be able to help me before I gve up on my dream.

Thanks in advance,

Txborn82