HELP!! Any suggestions on Spelling troubles

stpauligirl · Feb 8, 2006

I am in AP I, I really feel like I know things pretty well. If my hubby quizes me, or I do practice test no problem.
My scare is I can't spell some of these terms easily. I have a learning thing going on, but wondered if anyone has any advice on how to work on spelling all the terms. I mean simply leaving out an i or an odd a or e...that's what messes me up HELP any advice would be so appreciated

Would writing these terms over and over help? Do a few each day and add as they keep coming up.

NeverQuit · Feb 9, 2006

I am in AP I, I really feel like I know things pretty well. If my hubby quizes me, or I do practice test no problem.
My scare is I can't spell some of these terms easily. I have a learning thing going on, but wondered if anyone has any advice on how to work on spelling all the terms. I mean simply leaving out an i or an odd a or e...that's what messes me up HELP any advice would be so appreciated

Break them down into easier terms when spelling. For example, endocarditis. Endo(it helps me to remember this means "within"), then card, and then itis. Sometimes, either before or after break them apart I make a catchy little phrase to go with it.

doddlebuggin · Feb 9, 2006

I know where your coming from.interstatial and interstitial blew me out of the water,I can spell inappropriate but affect and effect will get me everytime and to top it off i have mis-spelled toilet for years only maybe because i write faster than I think...Tabers will be your best friend.I told my hubby to bury me with mine so if I get quized later I can look it up

dawnelle · Feb 9, 2006

Thanks for all the advice, what is a taber?

doddlebuggin · Feb 9, 2006

A medical dictionary, I got mine when I was in nursing school I bet that there are a few more words now

LoriAlabamaRN · Feb 10, 2006

Remember in grammar school where you would bring home a list of spelling words and give it to your mom, who would then call them out and have you spell them? Worked well, didn't it? That's how I got through the worst of the medical terminology. I'd write down the terms I needed to be able to spell correctly and have my dh read them out to me and correct my spelling as needed. The method I used was flash cards. He would hold the flash cards (so only he could read the word) and call the word out to me, as I spelled the words he would put the ones I got right into one pile, then the ones I got wrong into another pile (he'd tell me at the time the correct way to spell it). After we'd gone through all the cards, he would shuffle the "wrong" pile, go through it again, and add the ones I got right to the "right" pile from the first round. With me so far? This would continue until I had gotten all of the cards in the right pile, at which point he'd reshuffle them all and go through them one more time. If I got them all right, then we were done. This worked very well for me, I have used this system to study for exams as well. I'd make out cards for different terms, diseases, meds etc with the info I needed to know on the back and go through the cards for several days using this system up until the exam. I bet I made 20,000 notecards while in school, but I passed!!!

Race Mom, ASN, RN · Feb 10, 2006

The really long words that I had troubles with (especially in Micro) I would sound them out the way they looked, not the way they sounded. Sometimes you can think of a picture in your head to go along with the word (like a sentence of a story, not the actual item for the word).

When I saw the name of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, I just knew it would be on the lab test. I pronounce it wrong, but I sure do spell it right. I say in my head "sterno--clee--I--doe--mastoid". I believe that the "I" is silent in the proper pronounciation.

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