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You won't necessairly make the same good grades that you made in pre-reqs ( I am an A student in pre-reqs but nuthin but B's in nursing) but if you've made good grades that means you are a good student and even if you don't make A's you know you have the potential to successfully complete the curriculum.
I think the only thing you can say is that you will probably have a good change to do well in your nursing classes because you probably have good study skills. However, grades can be misleading. If you got good grades but the class was not really challenging then if you take a challenging nursing class you could get rocked. Did you learn and retain the information from the classes you got A's in? Do you still remember the difference between the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas or renin-angiotensinogen system for controlling blood volume? If you don't know and retain what you learned then it's just like you never learned it in the first place. It is in your nursing classes that you will have to apply what you've learned, so maybe that is a better measure of how well you will do in the nursing classes. Just my 2 cents.
Being "booksmart" and being able to pull off high grades is definitely a good skill to have and won't hurt in nursing school, but being successful in nursing school depends on a lot more. You should also look at your time management skills, organization, and ability to apply knowledge in a practical setting.
bob007cat
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I have had A&P 1 and 2, Medical terminology,Psycology, Human Growth and development,English comp. ,algebra, Phisical science survey. I have had very good grades in these courses. Other than a few academics I mostly have the actual nursing courses. I am sure the nursing courses are hard. but how do they compare to the more difficult courses like the A&P's? I f you make good grades in the academics will you do good in the nursing courses? or is it a toss up?