Failed my first exam!!!

Seun2014 · Mar 10, 2014

Straight A's also help

Seun2014 · Mar 10, 2014

I heard about saunders as helping alot with content.

lth1123 · Mar 10, 2014

I'm sorry maybe it's just me but " I studied everyday for two weeks." is pretty much the answer... You cant really mean that you expect to pass an exam with only two weeks of studying.[/quote']
Yes, since that's all the time we have between each test that's exactly what I mean. I'm sorry but if you didn't come to be positive don't stop by here. Looking for students who are just as smart as me with good sound advice! Thanks!!

NKS82 · Mar 11, 2014

Yes, since that's all the time we have between each test that's exactly what I mean. I'm sorry but if you didn't come to be positive don't stop by here. Looking for students who are just as smart as me with good sound advice! Thanks!!

I'm really sorry, I should have checked the facts behind. In my university we have exams (150 to 200 sata questions and an an essay to write, I'd never pass such exam with only two weeks of studies)only in the end of course, every course is ten weeks. We have tests (50 sata questions and 1 or 2 question where you have to write the answer) every second week during the course though. I have not much to add for the advice you've got. I hope you'll find a way to study that suits you and that you pass your coming exams.

vanessaem, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2014

The very first exam I took in nursing school, I failed. It was a Fundamentals test. I felt hopeless and scared because being that it was my first exam and I felt I was starting things on the wrong foot. I'm here to tell you that there is hope. Just follow the suggestions that people mentioned and/or come up with a method of study that will suit you best and finally gets the results you need to make it through school.

In totally, I failed two nursing exams in school. However, I still graduated with a good GPA and yesterday I got the good pop-up on my Nclex exam. I know it doesn't seem like it but this is just a minor setback. Just continue to improve and you should do well. You can do it and try not to be discouraged.

SunshineDaisy, ASN, RN · Mar 11, 2014

I ditto the teaching others! That is how I learned best. I think my hubby knows enough nursing stuff to sit for the NCLEX now I also used the Straight A's books and the Demystified books. Those really helped pinpoint certain things for me that I just wasn't getting from my textbook.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2014

I don't see any words of wisdom about the most valuable resource you have in your class: your faculty. They really do want you to learn and pass the course.

Your first stop should be to make an appointment to review your exam (like one of the previous posters) and have your instructor help you understand why the answers you chose were not the best ones. Then you go see him/her every week, or maybe twice a week if you run on a two-week testing cycle, to review class material and clear up misconceptions about what's important and why on an ongoing basis. This will leave you better prepared to do the critical thinking necessary to integrate all those facts into ability to plan and execute nursing care for patients ... which is why you are in school and what NCLEX will test.

vanessaem, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2014

I don't see any words of wisdom about the most valuable resource you have in your class: your faculty. They really do want you to learn and pass the course.

Your first stop should be to make an appointment to review your exam (like one of the previous posters) and have your instructor help you understand why the answers you chose were not the best ones. Then you go see him/her every week, or maybe twice a week if you run on a two-week testing cycle, to review class material and clear up misconceptions about what's important and why on an ongoing basis. This will leave you better prepared to do the critical thinking necessary to integrate all those facts into ability to plan and execute nursing care for patients ... which is why you are in school and what NCLEX will test.

Not all faculty is as kind or understanding about the difficulties one is having in nursing school. Especially true if you're one of a few people who are struggling in the class. I know this from experience. I had dealings with uncaring professors and administrators and some who were the opposite. However, I would tread lightly with talking to faculty members and only speak with those whom you get a sense really want their students to succeed. If the OP talks to the wrong person, she may get that professor that tells her the wrong thing and it negates her whole nursing school experience or feelings about nursing in general.

I had one classmate who was having a hard time in Pharm class and asked the professor for help and was told, "Well, perhaps you're not cut out to be a nurse" and other professors really just didn't care to hear about anyone's plight. I used to wonder if they remembered how hard nursing school was. I'm not saying that all professors are like this but it happens. Don't get me wrong, I had some professors that were a real godsend, however like I said, you really have to know whom to go to for advice and even with that they're only compassionate to a point.

Some nursing schools these days are more in the business of making money than caring whether their students pass or fail. Honestly, what really got me through my nursing program is the help and comradery of my fellow classmates. We all helped each other out. Knowing that we were all in this together was what got us through.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Mar 12, 2014

Possibly true, but you know what? The OP, and others in her same boat, still owe it to themselves to try. Just throwing one's hands in the air and giving up is not a functional way to deal with danger, disappointment, or having your personal failings revealed to you.

For many younger people, failing an exam is the first time anything like this has ever happened, and it feels devastating, because this is the first time they have ever had to deal with anything less than success. This is life, folks. Now is the time to learn to deal with it when it's comparatively small potatoes and fixable, as this one is.

Not everyone will think everything you do is wonderful; you will make mistakes and be called on them (this is one form of that), and how you decide to deal with it will determine how your life feels to you. You're adults now. It may be that your folks always made sure you got positive strokes for everything; you might have been on the team in last place but everyone got a trophy "for participation;" you might just have always been lucky never to have run up against a challenge you couldn't easily meet. Well, you have now. I can absolutely promise you it won't be the last time-- AN is full of threads from new grads who feel disrespected/put upon/bullied because someone pointed out a newbie shortcoming and didn't give them rainbows and unicorns all the time. What are you going to do about it when it happens to you? Believe it or not, failing this exam now, early in your nursing career, is a gift, because it gives you an opportunity for growth and learning how to grow in difficult times.

So go see that instructor and ask for the help you need. If you don't get it there, do what we tell kids who finally get up the courage to report child abuse-- keep looking until you find someone who will listen. You can do this. You actually have to do this. Let us know how it works out.

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