Just received a A D+ in psychology

heb06004 · May 10, 2014

Definitely retake the class! Sometimes those intro psych classes can just be hard. All you have to do is find a study method that works for you. Now you know it's all memorization, so find time to study a few minutes every day so you don't end up cramming for exams. I did my first bachelor's as a psych undergrad and that intro psych class killed me. It was all memorization and I ended up with a C-. After that class I realized I had to find other ways to study for psych and got a lot of A's in the upper level classes. Take it as a lesson learned and don't let it be the deciding factor in your nursing career. :)

Peanut&Buttercup · May 10, 2014

Surf these boards. Not only have plenty of fantastic nurses "failed" (you didn't fail) a prerequisite, they failed a nursing course or got kicked out of nursing school. It can be done.

MandieeRN · May 10, 2014

Dust yourself off and get back up:)

PNW0212 · May 10, 2014

Retake it!

windsurfer8, BSN, RN · May 10, 2014

I totally disagree. You have to learn to be successful no matter WHO the professor is. Guess what..you will have Docs you don't like..you will have co workers you don't like. Blaming teachers is pointless and will teach you not to be accountable for your actions. Suck it up and figure out how to pass the class with a good grade. Being in college you will be required to take classes you feel are "pointless"...they are not. They are teaching you to accomplish the task and to be accountable and learn work ethic. Maybe because I am a vet, but I have ZERO patience for blaming others for your failure.

INFP · May 11, 2014

Yes, re-taking the course would be your best alternative. With great grades in your other prerequisites, I wouldn't have anything to worry about if I were you.

Best of luck your second time around in Psychology!

Cristian C · May 11, 2014

I totally disagree. You have to learn to be successful no matter WHO the professor is. Guess what..you will have Docs you don't like..you will have co workers you don't like. Blaming teachers is pointless and will teach you not to be accountable for your actions. Suck it up and figure out how to pass the class with a good grade. Being in college you will be required to take classes you feel are "pointless"...they are not. They are teaching you to accomplish the task and to be accountable and learn work ethic. Maybe because I am a vet, but I have ZERO patience for blaming others for your failure.

I dont feel anybody was blaming the professors. Just pointing out that different teaching styles and learning styles can be challenging to work with if they do not correlate.

Barnstormin' PMHNP · May 18, 2014

Although a doctor has a great deal of knowledge which I will learn from (no matter his/her personality), he is not a paid faculty who is expected to provide me with a learning experience. I have dropped out of classes where the professor is an idiot plain and simple. I have only had to do this a few times and each time it was necessary. My 4.0 GPA is due to my own effort and my desire to keep control of my learning experience. If I had stayed in those classes I dropped (because I refused to be instructed by an inferior teacher), I would not have had the gpa that got me into grad school without having to take GRE's. There are too many excellent instructors out there to waste money and time enabling the sub par ones.

nandosport · May 19, 2014

I totally disagree. You have to learn to be successful no matter WHO the professor is. Guess what..you will have Docs you don't like..you will have co workers you don't like. Blaming teachers is pointless and will teach you not to be accountable for your actions. Suck it up and figure out how to pass the class with a good grade. Being in college you will be required to take classes you feel are "pointless"...they are not. They are teaching you to accomplish the task and to be accountable and learn work ethic. Maybe because I am a vet, but I have ZERO patience for blaming others for your failure.

I have had professors that should be blamed for my peers' poor performances. This past semester my physiology professor didn't show up 2x for our lecture and sent an email to the class 30 minutes after the lecture was supposed to have begun. She even showed up 30-40 minutes late to a lecture after the majority of the class had left saying she was about to teach and she didn't care who had left (even though it's university policy that if a prof is more than 20 minutes late, then class is cancelled)! She never finished any of the topics for the exams. After we had been out of school for snow 2x, we operated under a revised syllabus that was never posted for our viewing (but we were promised it would be posted by a certain day...didn't happen). We had 3 exams. For the first exam, she didn't finish the material and she uploaded about 7 hours worth of online lecture for us to know in one week in addition to the material covered in lecture. Cool. Second test, she didn't finish and uploaded 6 & 1/2 hours worth of online lecture material for us to teach ourselves 4 days before the exam. For the final, she didn't finish the material, and waited until 2 days before the exam to upload 5 hours worth of online lecture for us to teach ourselves. This happened during finals week! I had 4 final exams and a paper due that week. Mind you, we had been promised access to the audio lectures at least a week before the exams. She repeatedly lied to us about when things would be posted. I'm just a student who was taking 17 hours. There were working students in the class who had to deal with this. I think it is unfair and I will blame my professor for my lack of knowledge. Now, since I had to basically memorize for the tests and I only rented the book for the semester and we only covered about 4/10 body systems, I'm screwed for my med-surg class in nursing school as are others from my class who plan on pursuing healthcare occupations.

Please excuse my grammar errors. I typed this in a hurry.

nandosport · May 19, 2014

I totally disagree. You have to learn to be successful no matter WHO the professor is. Guess what..you will have Docs you don't like..you will have co workers you don't like. Blaming teachers is pointless and will teach you not to be accountable for your actions. Suck it up and figure out how to pass the class with a good grade. Being in college you will be required to take classes you feel are "pointless"...they are not. They are teaching you to accomplish the task and to be accountable and learn work ethic. Maybe because I am a vet, but I have ZERO patience for blaming others for your failure.

And I think working with someone who you dislike is completely different from dealing with a professor, whose services you've paid for, that is not doing his or her job. At the end of working with a disagreeable coworker, you still get paid! You still eat that month! I took this class and I have minimal profits.

mical · May 20, 2014

Hello I am currently a college student at a 4 year university. I have decided to pursue a career in Nursing. Today the final grades for my psychology class have been posted and I did receive a D+. In all the other pre-reqs I have A's. I have taken Statistics and College Composition and have an A in both of those. I even have a letter of recommendation from my writing teacher. I just could not find ways to study for Psychology, it was an all memorization class. Towards the end I was able to study better and was doing a lot better. I would like your honest opinion, should I still pursue a Career in nursing although I failed one of the prereqs... it is still really early in my journey for the rest of the pre-reqs and my goals are straight now. Please share your thoughts, positive or negative. My school does offer the choice to retake the course and replace the letter grade with the better one.

Don't be discouraged! A year ago, I was put on academic probation because I failed a remedial non credit class that is required for my current school and I was devastated. I have a 4.0 GPA now. There will be set backs, even in nursing school, but don't let anything deter you. Just retake the class and don't let it get you down. Best of luck! :)

GingerRN17 · May 23, 2014

Retake it! You just have to give yourself time to study! I did an online 8 week class, super easy, got an A. Look at your professors and find an easy one. :)