On Thursday I had my first exam in A&P 2. I studied, I made flashcards, I had friends I studied with, I did my very best given the circumstances, and I got a 65%. This exam was worth 10% of our overall grade.....
I'm crushed. I just got done bawling my eyes out and I feel horrible.
I'll grant the fact that this last month has been crazy. I'm carrying a full course load and my husband [He's in the military] has been gone...So I've had to take care of the baby, the house, handle all my homework, and study without much help. So I understand that maybe this exam was out of the ordinary...but I feel like giving up.
During the exam I didn't feel like I did that bad. I knew there were things I didn't know...but I did the best I could and I just feel like if my best isn't good enough what's the point?
I'm in the midst of a pity party, and I don't know what I'm looking for....but I know the two fields I'm most interested in seem unattainable right now. No way I can become a nurse or a pharmacist with C's and D's.
Thanks for listening to my rant. I don't have anyone else to talk to and I just needed to get this out...
I stopped getting online [for the most part] so I wasn't able to update you all. As the semester progressed I continued to get D's on every single regular exam No matter what I did, no matter how I studied, I still got D's. However, my practicals were still very stellar. As a matter of fact, on my final practical with the cadaver I got an A [probably because it is hands on?]
Then, with a stroke of luck I managed to swing a C on my Final Exam! awesome! so with all my quizzes, the final practical and exam, then the extra points from the lab manual, everything averaged out. I finished this semester with a B!! :w00t:
I really don't know how...I just knew this class was going to kill me. So to all those reading and feel like you're struggling, DON'T GIVE UP! you can turn it around too!
thanks for all the advice and encouragement everyone!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
that is awesome!! i am so glad that you decided to push on!!
i just had the same thing happen to me this semester...it wasn't in a & p, it was in my nursing fundamentals class...i was doing awesome on the quizzes, scoring 100% on all of them and doing awesome on the competencies. here comes the first exam, i studied very hard like you, doing almost identical to what you did [flashcards, etc..], took the exam and was in SHOCK. those nursing tests are like no other! NCLEX style questions, talk about shock, especially for someone who has never had to answer those type of questions before...i got a 66% on that exam, with it being 20% of my grade! talk about panic mode! my grade went down...fast [the quizzes were only 1% of our grade]...
i sat back, reflected, moved forward like you and succeed, getting an 82% on the second exam and an 83% on the final.
i like you finished the class with a B.
this just goes to show that you can start out weak, but finish strong.
shay&lynn, ASN, RN
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
that is awesome!! i am so glad that you decided to push on!!
i just had the same thing happen to me this semester...it wasn't in a & p, it was in my nursing fundamentals class...i was doing awesome on the quizzes, scoring 100% on all of them and doing awesome on the competencies. here comes the first exam, i studied very hard like you, doing almost identical to what you did [flashcards, etc..], took the exam and was in SHOCK. those nursing tests are like no other! NCLEX style questions, talk about shock, especially for someone who has never had to answer those type of questions before...i got a 66% on that exam, with it being 20% of my grade! talk about panic mode! my grade went down...fast [the quizzes were only 1% of our grade]...
i sat back, reflected, moved forward like you and succeed, getting an 82% on the second exam and an 83% on the final.
i like you finished the class with a B.
this just goes to show that you can start out weak, but finish strong.
best of luck to you!