Do you study from your text books ?

[NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN]

At my cc the instructors gives us powerpoints every lecture. We are currently using three required text books as well for our readings. I do skim over the text books, however most of the exams are from the powerpoints which come from the three text books. I also use the text book as a reference, however all the readings are very time consuming. Do you use your text book to study ? If you use the powerpoints do you throw them away after the course ? I'm just looking for a way to minimize my readings. Thanks for reading

[RNMom2010]

You are lucky to have powerpoint to study from! When I had classes that used PP that was my main focus of study, I barely cracked the book, unless I needed to review something more indepth. I kept my PP notes, and will until my schooling is complete. You never know when you may want to look back on something.

[spongebob6286, BSN, RN]

way back in college our professors also used powerpoint. but I still read the textbooks. not all the informations in the book were all in the slides.

[spongebob6286, BSN, RN]

way back in college our professors also used powerpoint. but I still read the textbooks. not all the informations in the book were all in the slides. and besides they won't let us copy what were in those slides.

[cakeordeath]

I seldom open my books except when the instructor references a particular page or diagram. I have found taking notes and paying attention to what the instructor feels is important gets me through the tests. I learn additional material with other books than my texts- I like information straight to the point without excessive wordiness, which is a HUGE fault of most textbooks.

I like the Incredibly Easy series, and I practice NCLEX questions by system being covered because it gives rationales. I always need to know the 'why' of something to understand it better.

[suzy253, RN]

If we were given chapters to read, you were responsible for what is in those chapters. We also got powerpoint which just generalized things for us.

[RhodyGirl, RN]

Absolutely. I do all the assigned reading and it has served me well.

[gillytook]

Our instructors are notoriuos for asking questions from our reading that were not in the powerpoints. I study by skimming over the chapters and doing tons of NCLEX style questions, taking notes and reading from some of the NCLEX review books recomemded by my program. I have an A average so far.

[mama_d, BSN, RN]

I'm in micro right now, and the tests are basically all straight from the PP slides. Thank goodness, b/c I'm trying to get back into the whole school thing, it's been a big adjustment. Last time I went back to school all the kids were in school all day, now I've got a two year old "helping" me study. I don't know if I could do it if I had to do all the micro reading as well.

My anthropology class is online, so I do have to do the reading for that. At least it's interesting.

[Sunset87, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN, CNM]

I usually don't have time to read my text books. I will try to read the chapter that has the most questions on the test and skim the rest. If I don't have time to skim the other chapters, I will at least do the questions at the end of each chapter and read all of the answers and rationales. My teachers lecture from powerpoints so I usually focus on those. I think the only text book that I read is my skills textbook because I need to know the steps of the skills.

[fsaav]

It really depends on how you are tested. I never really get nervous for tests but the first test of a new semester/with a new instructor is always nervewracking for me because at that point you really don't know what they're testing you on.

Right now in my current semester our instructor gets our tests from the "test bank" provided from our text book, so even though I use the power point notes during lecture I never really look at them again because I'm so busy reading the required reading from the text since tiny detailed questions come up on the tests from the readings.

So yes...I read all assigned reading from the text.

[jjjoy, LPN]

It really depends on how you are tested. I never really get nervous for tests but the first test of a new semester/with a new instructor is always nervewracking for me because at that point you really don't know what they're testing you on.

So true!