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In my head...

I completed a year and a half of prerequisites with straight A's.... I completed two semesters of nursing school with all A's and one B. And here I am, in my most difficult semester of our nursing program, feeling like I'm going to sink. My study habits and previous grades say otherwise, but I have a bad feeling.

I guess I'm not looking for advice.... I know I need to continue to study hard, seek help if I need it, and stay positive. But has anyone else felt this way? If I can pass this semester, I'll move onto senior year. However, they plan to cut 50% of my cohort this semester. I'm terrified of being in the bottom 50%....

Has anyone overcome this mental block before?

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    How are they planning to cut the half of you? I mean, are they devising a plan to intentionally fail half of you? How can they predict that by implementing a more rigorous curriculum half of the class will fail?

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    It's just that every class before us has lost 40-50% of their cohort, so that's what our professors expect. 40-50% of people don't make the 77% test average or don't get a 800 on their HESI, so they fail pharmacology. The theory is that it increases our NC

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    With the cohorts before us, 40-50% of the students typically get cut for not getting a high enough HESI score or not getting a 77% test average- So our professors just kind of expect to cut half now.

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    Oh, heavens. Didn't your grandmother ever tell you not to borrow trouble?

    Your grades are good, you have no reason to be catastrophizing. Do your best and odds are you'll be in the group that stays. Besides, maybe your class will be the one that the professors get an unexpectedly good result out of, right?

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    Right! Down here in Southern Illinois I hear that phrase a lot. You're so true. Thank ya'll!!!!!

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