I just downloaded the course content guide for the Essentials: Health Safety nursing course through Excelsior College. I am a little overwhelmed with where I should start since this is my first time taking this approach.
I downloaded the StudyGroup 101 guide which seems to outline things pretty well. My question is A) should I purchase and read the million dollars worth of books Excelsior recommends or is the StudyGroup 101 guide along with the Excelsior practice tests sufficient. I don't want to miss out on content I should be studying but no reason spending so much money if it is all in the guide already
ANY comments or input would be tremendously appreciated!!!
I take mine tomorrow morning. been using SG101 guide (does anyone else think their practice tests have a lot of wrong answers?), the excelsior practice exams and today I got the 2007 Saunders nclex review from the library. not much on there for this test that I can find, but it had a lot of stuff that would have helped for my first test (transitions).
I recently purchased SG101 for health safety and havent done the practice tests yet. actually havent really looked at it much. that's pretty scary for them to be selling material with the wrong answers. this is why i'm not soley relying on SG101 some people can get by with it but for me i gotta have my books.
Good luck tomorrow. i'm taking health safety in a couple of weeks.
I go over them a little bit here and there, but there are lots of wrong answers on them. there is some good info, but mainly the sg101 study guides are very good.
Actually no. I like everything in there except the quizzes. I do terribly on them, they're worded very poorly and don't reflect the questions on the Excelsior practice test I've taken so far at all. I love the vocab type stuff in there/ flash cards. I've been solely studying with the SG101 guide and some 2010 ATI books I got
Thanks. Those are my thoughts too. The actual study guide seems good. I also found my ati book and am going review them.Have yall taken the health safety exam yet?
I am to take health safety exam in a couple of weeks and have been looking through the Sandersbook, but am confused as to what to study from in it. Any suggestion? Or should I just do practice ?'s on the cd? I have read the required material in fundementals and took practice test A and scored 62%. I just dont know how everyone gets A & B' s on these exams. Also have reviewed my ati book on nursing care of children.
Darlene, you need to download the free EC exam content guide -- it will tell you what you need to study. Think of it as your syllabus, and match it to the appropriate Saunders sections. By the way, practice test scores in the 60s aren't bad -- that's probably pretty typical. I think I got mostly 70s on the practice exams and almost all A's on the real exams. Good luck!
Just finished taking this course. I left the room thinking I bombed it but I got an A! I got a 72% on my initial EC practice test which I took a week into light studying. Then 2 weeks of daily studying and my second practice test was a 79%. It seems like together with my personal experience and the feedback I've received from other EC students the general consensus is that of you pass the practice tests you can expect to do even better on the real deal. I assume this is due partly with the fact that you get more questions on the real test (therefore more questions you are allowed to get wrong/questions are worth less) and maybe they purposefully make the practice tests harder to truly assure you are prepared.
Ultimately what I've learned today with my first test is that confidence is key. Don't go into it with negativity and give yourself the benefit of the doubt
Just finished taking this course. I left the room thinking I bombed it but I got an A! I got a 72% on my initial EC practice test which I took a week into light studying. Then 2 weeks of daily studying and my second practice test was a 79%. It seems like together with my personal experience and the feedback I've received from other EC students the general consensus is that of you pass the practice tests you can expect to do even better on the real deal. I assume this is due partly with the fact that you get more questions on the real test (therefore more questions you are allowed to get wrong/questions are worth less) and maybe they purposefully make the practice tests harder to truly assure you are prepared.
Ultimately what I've learned today with my first test is that confidence is key. Don't go into it with negativity and give yourself the benefit of the doubt
Congrats on your A! :yeah:Thanks! That is helpful info. I take it next Weds. I got a 73 on practice A before studying and have been lightly studying for 2 weeks. Looking forward to getting the 1st test out of the way.
I took the health safety exam on Tuesday and passed with a C. I am amazed at the ones who make A & B's.Congrats to you all. Maybe one day I will get there! As always, I have to remember c=rn! Now on to chronicity.
I took the health safety exam on Tuesday and passed with a C. I am amazed at the ones who make A & B's.Congrats to you all. Maybe one day I will get there! As always, I have to remember c=rn! Now on to chronicity.
Thats good passing is passing and thats all that matters!:w00t:
So all you used was EC study guide content, SG101 and the practice exams? I haven't purchased the practice exams yet, I'm trying to finish reading the study guide content before doing the practice exams. I dont want to over study nor understudy. Goodluck on chronicity...
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I recently purchased SG101 for health safety and havent done the practice tests yet. actually havent really looked at it much. that's pretty scary for them to be selling material with the wrong answers. this is why i'm not soley relying on SG101 some people can get by with it but for me i gotta have my books.
Good luck tomorrow. i'm taking health safety in a couple of weeks.