Excelsior: Reproductive

BeachieRN84 · May 6, 2011

Took Repro yesterday. Made a "D". The day started bad in the first place. I take Excelsior exams free on military posts so I commute to Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL to take my exams. My trip started off with a flat tire 20 minutes into my commute. Should have seen that as a bad sign! LOL! Changed it and went on with my day. I'm not even gonna throw a pity party and blame anything else but myself. I was not prepared for this test. I tested out of transition to RN role, Health/safety, and Chronicity all inside of 6 weeks and was on a roll. Perhaps too much of a roll. I didn't fail by much. There were lots of congenital abnormalities on the exam that were not in my notes. Not as much sexuality as I thought there would be. I have always said females are like jet engines- lots of moving parts! Reproductive has never been a strong point or even an area of interest for me so I was not as motivated as I should have been either. Taking life span 1 in 2 weeks. Just printed out SG101 notes and exams a few minutes ago and it looks alot smoother that reproductive. My 60 day wait period started today to re-take my repro. I will just have to pay out of pocket this time. No biggie. So if I get LS 1, LS 2, and LS 3 out of the way and tackle repro again this summer I will be on track to schedule CPNE some time in the fall. I am still very much in the fight! This changes nothing but a couple dollar signs, lol! To all my soon to be RN's with Excelsior keep fighting the fight!!!! Feel free to ask me or comment about this exam or anything else!

Sorry you did not pass Repro :-( You'll get it next time.

Just from my experience though... SG101 not the best source for the Life Span exams, alot of incorrect information and they are still kind of jumbled from when the tests were the NC exams... and the practice exams sometimes have the incorrect answers on the key, you always have to double check those. Some people swear by them and that they passed all the tests only using that, I did have them for all my exams, but I didn't see them as very useful in LS1, 2 and 3.

The Life Span exams are differently formatted and much more difficult than the Essentials exams are. I've gotten fill in the blanks and a ton of select all that apply on those exams also. My best advice is to get a Saunders if you don't already have one :-)

Good luck!!

nurse_bear · May 6, 2011

Thanks beachnurse. I'm actually going to consult the thousand dollar college network book I paid dearly for, also. I am seeing online where LS 1 mainly focuses on cardio/respiratory

savagetrojan · May 6, 2011

Took Repro yesterday. Made a "D". The day started bad in the first place. I take Excelsior exams free on military posts so I commute to Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL to take my exams. My trip started off with a flat tire 20 minutes into my commute. Should have seen that as a bad sign! LOL! Changed it and went on with my day. I'm not even gonna throw a pity party and blame anything else but myself. I was not prepared for this test. I tested out of transition to RN role, Health/safety, and Chronicity all inside of 6 weeks and was on a roll. Perhaps too much of a roll. I didn't fail by much. There were lots of congenital abnormalities on the exam that were not in my notes. Not as much sexuality as I thought there would be. I have always said females are like jet engines- lots of moving parts! Reproductive has never been a strong point or even an area of interest for me so I was not as motivated as I should have been either. Taking life span 1 in 2 weeks. Just printed out SG101 notes and exams a few minutes ago and it looks alot smoother that reproductive. My 60 day wait period started today to re-take my repro. I will just have to pay out of pocket this time. No biggie. So if I get LS 1, LS 2, and LS 3 out of the way and tackle repro again this summer I will be on track to schedule CPNE some time in the fall. I am still very much in the fight! This changes nothing but a couple dollar signs, lol! To all my soon to be RN's with Excelsior keep fighting the fight!!!! Feel free to ask me or comment about this exam or anything else![/q
Keep your chin up. Just remember your weak points and study them. I understand about pushing yourself, I've taken five in the last six weeks, I think I'm starting to talk about it in my sleep.