Do you really have to do all the reading?

[HeartsOpenWide]

I am a good girl. Doing ALL of my reading, taking detailed notes on everything...several people have told me now (and from two different programs, including the one I am in) that the test questions all come from the lectures. Don't get me wrong, I am still going to do all the reading but, I wonder if I need to be taking notes on every little detail like I am now.

[CuriousMe]

Curious Me

did you have to read 10 chapters before your next class,just asking, i just started this week and that is what our schedule looks like?

Don't know , how i can get it all done:rolleyes:

Yes actually, more the first week, because I had to do two weeks of reading to get a week ahead.Truthfully, in those first couple weeks I had no free time at all, no TV, nothing, I was at work, at school, doing school work or sometimes sleeping....the sleeping didn't happen all that often :)

The other thing I do is go into school early (my classes start at 9AM, so I go into either the library or our Science tutoring center at 7AM), if I tried to stay home and study from 7 till 9 in the morning, I would totally fall asleep (my bed is just to close if I stay home). I also take my books with me everywhere....I read textbooks waiting for everything (including the pharmacy at Costco ). Thankfully, I'm pretty good at blocking out the world while I'm reading.

Like I said earlier, I've already sacrificed to much to get to school. I will get everything I can out of the experience.....I can't afford not to. I think that's the biggest difference from my last schooling experience (where I barely graduated high school and got a GPA of 1.27 at CC while occasionally working part time) to this time, where I'm taking hard courses, working full time and have a 4.0.

Best of luck!!

Peace,

Cathie

[WDWpixieRN, RN]

Also, don't forget if there are CDs or websites associated with your books to check those out. It's also a good idea to take the tests at the back of each chapter to see how much you actually know also.

A second-semester student mentioned that to a few of us and I'll be darned when I checked those out if there weren't several questions that had been on the quizzes we had taken!!

One of our instructors mentioned her tests were from lecture and the other hasn't really specified. We'll find out this week after our first test ....

[RebeccaJeanRN]

We would always ask the class ahead of us, not the instructors (most of them will say, yes, do all the reading). They would tell us, yes, read the book, or no, just read the instructor's notes.

:yeahthat:

I agree, if you know that the instructor is the same, and the book hasn't changed since prior class, its really helpful to ask someone from the prior class (who had good grades of course!) whether alot of note taking and reading from the text would be helpful. If you get a "not needed", then you can read as much as you can of the suggested readings, and perhaps feel less stressed if you can't get it all read when you're in a time crunch.

[gonzo1, ASN, RN]

I tried to read every little thing, but it just wasn't humanly possible. As time goes by you will adjust and based on how much time you have to study try to read as much as you can. The incredibly easy books are very nice too. After all, hopefully you are in school to learn as much as you can but it can be hard to find the balance between sacrificing friends and family and learning.