How many chapters per test???

ZootRN · Sep 23, 2005

Same here. We've had a test once, covering 16 chapters.

stressgal, RN · Sep 23, 2005

Yep, pretty common.

JenNJFLCA · Sep 23, 2005

I think our critical care one will have 18 :uhoh3:

iToniai · Sep 23, 2005

Wow, I didn't start nursing school yet but how do you memorize anything over eight chapters? Anything over eight chapters, I would consider ridiculous. Now I'm really starting to get nervous!!!

L&Dwant2b · Sep 24, 2005

Wow, I didn't start nursing school yet (I'll be attending Edinboro University accelerated nursing next fall) but how do you memorize anything over eight chapters? Anything over eight chapters, I would consider ridiculous. Now I'm really starting to get nervous!!!

I am becoming very nervous as I start school on Septemer 26, 2005

MIA-RN1, RN · Sep 24, 2005

Nursing isn't all memorizing, its really about internalizing the nursing process and once you get used to the critical thinking, its easier to learn about the different disease processes and nursing management. I am studying now for my first test which covers all of newborn and maternal post-partum. Its not so much delineated chapters as just lots of reading here and there. They give us objectives which are what we really need to know and the information that the test is based on.

Don't worry too much, its just not the same as memorizing stuff for other classes.

crb613, BSN, RN · Sep 24, 2005

I was just wondering how many chapters you are having on one test. So far I've had anywhere from 8-12 chapters on 1 test. Is about the same for everyone else?

Yes its very common, consider youself lucky its no more than 12. If they get behind......well look out! :uhoh3:

RedSox33RN · Sep 24, 2005

I think our biggest was 14.

It's not as bad as it sounds though. They do all tie in together, and like someone else said, its not the same as any other exams you may have had. You will use the critical thinking skills you are taught. There will be some memorizing of facts and lab values and such, but it is also stuff you will applying each week in clinical.

Student Kelly · Sep 24, 2005

I was just wondering how many chapters you are having on one test. So far I've had anywhere from 8-12 chapters on 1 test. Is about the same for everyone else?

I am in first semester & our tests cover at least 12 chapters (out of different books). I have discovered that everything I learned up to this point about 'how I learn' means nothing. I must READ, READ, READ & stay up on it or I am never going to make it. Study Guide books have been a tremendous help. I discovered that I have to set day by day goals for reading assignments & that even if I have to deprive myself of sleep some nights, that's what I have to do to make it! Good luck to you!! :rotfl:

Momto3andNurse2B · Sep 24, 2005

Wow, I didn't start nursing school yet (I'll be attending Edinboro University accelerated nursing next fall) but how do you memorize anything over eight chapters? Anything over eight chapters, I would consider ridiculous. Now I'm really starting to get nervous!!!

That's the thing, you don't memorize it. You have to read and understand it, and then you have to know how to USE the information. If you want to see what tests will be like in nursing school, buy an NCLEX review book (I have Saunders, which was recommended to me by several people.) The questions will give you a good idea of what the tests will be like in nursing school.

I've had two tests so far, and they have been on 10 & 12 chapters.

AuntieRN · Sep 24, 2005

Yup ours are usually 10-12 chapters easily in at least 3 books. We also have pharmacology and math on every test. Thank goodness they are all multiple choice. But you are right...there is no memorizing in nursing..you have to be able to apply it all..it really isnt as bad as it sounds...but it does take a lot of time and discipline. I still say it is easier then A&P was...good luck everyone on your tests!!