I hope you are all having a good summer so far! I'm hoping some of you can give me some much needed advice... (here is the story... sorry if it gets long)
I'm registered for Chem this fall with a teacher who has gotten great ratings on ratemyprofessor... I've also heard good things about her. However, it is in the morning, 2 days a week, and it looks like I'm stuck as far as day care goes and getting my oldest on to the bus and then getting to school on time. I've looked at a few home day cares, most were full (and still expensive), I've looked at a center (WAY TOO expensive).. and I also checked out my schools day care and I was really creeped out by it.
So I'm thinking I need to register for the afternoon class and have my regular babysitter (who will be much cheaper), help out.
The only problem is that at this point, there is no scheduled teacher assigned to the class. They have gaurenteed that a teacher will teach the course, we just don't know who yet. There are 2 really bad teachers in our Chem dept and I'm afraid if I get one, I'll do really bad in the course. It's been a long time for me and Chem, and I need all the help I can get...
Any suggestions?? Anyone have a horrible teacher for Chem and come out ok?? I'm willing to work super hard, and teach myself as much as I can, but I would really like to have a good professor, as that is part of what I feel I'm paying for...
I definitlely do recommend getting study guides with nclex/review questions. You want one that has lots of practice questions along with the rationales for right and wrong answers. The most recommended nclex review in my school is the Saunders Comprehensive Review for Nclex-RN. I had this since second semester and has helped alot. For first semester I had "Fundamentals Success" A course review applying critical thinking to test taking by Patricia Nugent. This book was great cause it covered everything you need in fundamentals from beginning to end. Also, my teachers had some questions on the tests that were pulled from study guides like this one. Hope this helps a little.
Good Luck!
Thanks so much for your reply. I will definitely get those books I need all the help I can get particularly since I don't have a "Spring chicken" brain anymore. I am starting Fundmentals on August 27th.
My chem professor was also rated badly on ratemyprofessor, but she wasn't that bad. She made you learn the stuff - and her exams were NOT multiple choice. I think ratemyprofessor in some ways is good, but in other ways is not that great. We all have different learning styles, and do better on certain kinds of tests. Ratemyprofessor does not take this into account. Also, there can be a good teacher, and if someone does poorly in the class, I have seen it too many times that they blame the prf, and not the fact that they didn't study as they should - or do the homework, or partied too much, etc.
You have to do what you have to do as far as your schedule goes, do your best in the class no matter who the prof is, and remember that other people's opinions are just that - other people's opinions.
I do check ratemyprofessor, to see what others say. There was only one time I actually switched a class - and that is when one of my current professors let me know, in a subtle way, that I should not take a certain professor for microbiology.
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Thanks so much for your reply. I will definitely get those books
I need all the help I can get particularly since I don't have a "Spring chicken" brain anymore. I am starting Fundmentals on August 27th.