feeling stuck

[KimBarbossa]

I'm in my last semester of my Nursing program at Seneca, PNC520 and its very stressful and tiring and on top of that I need to put in 400 hours of clinical. Yesterday we had a comprehensive test that I've been studying for, for 1 months and the passing grade was 75, and I got a 68, but since more than majority of the people failed, they remarked the test and took out a couple of questions, and I ended up with a 72, still not a pass.....to pass the course I need to get a 75 on the next test, which is August 14th, so that gives me 4 weeks to prepare, but I feel so tired and feel like I lost motivation.....have you ever failed a test and lost motivation from it? how did you pull through and do good the next time?

[Khow89]

What helped me in the program was going to see all my tests whether I did good or bad so that I can see the questions I got wrong and figure out why I got them wrong. Some profs are nice enough to explain why certain answers are more correct than others. Also a lot of people just study or read the context but they don't bother with the questions. I would suggest to start doing the questions if you haven't already or if you do do questions, you probably just need a bit more practice questions.

[GBC_Student, BSN, RN]

In my third semester of the rpn program I was really struggling to stay motivated. I considered dropping out. I know you're probably pretty tired but the end is in sight.

I failed my programs exit test the first time I wrote it. It's disappointing but you've made it this far and if you can do that you can finish.

The 400 hours can be really draining. I did not get along with my preceptor at all. Every day I went to my placement was torture. You'll push through because you've already put in so much effort.