Most Challenging Prereq?

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Hi All! What has been the most challenging prereq and do you have any tips to prepare? Was it Bio? Chem? Anatomy? Physiology?

So far, its been general chemistry :(

Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

Pharmacology was the toughest pre-req for me. The volume of reading plus quizzes & med math minimums of 90% or better made it a challenge. I was taking 17 credits that semester and Pharm ate up the majority of my time.

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

I guess I'm in the minority here. Loved all the sciences and maths.

Philosophy was the hardest class I ever took. ;)

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A & P 2 was the hardest but one of the most interesting by far. Chemistry is also somewhat hard & very boring!

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Microbiology was hard for me.

I found Anatomy and Physiology fun and hard.

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Specializes in Home Health.

Statistics. lol Seriously, I hate math classes, especially nighttime classes, right after dinner.... :p

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Specializes in CVICU.

Chemistry was definitely the hardest for me.

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Specializes in Early Intervention, Nsg. Education.
Statistics. lol Seriously, I hate math classes, especially nighttime classes, right after dinner.... :p

Ding Ding Ding!!! Same here. Evening class twice a week, while working 3rd shift and nursing/pumping for my infant daughter at home...I look back and think "WHAT was I THINKING?" :wacky:

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I guess I'm in the minority here. Loved all the sciences and maths.

Philosophy was the hardest class I ever took. ;)

You had to take Philosophy as a Pre-req for nursing school?

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Specializes in CVICU.

I disliked Statistics too, but I don't think it was particularly hard. You just had to keep track of all the numbers and formulas while remembering what all the symbols meant. I found College Algebra to be a lot more difficult.

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Specializes in Maternal Child, Home Health, Med/Surg.

So far for me it's chem. So much smushed into an 8 week course. I'm excited for AP though. Lets hope I don't hate that!

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Specializes in Home Health.
Ding Ding Ding!!! Same here. Evening class twice a week, while working 3rd shift and nursing/pumping for my infant daughter at home...I look back and think "WHAT was I THINKING?" :wacky:

Wow! I had no other obligations and struggled through that course, so I'm amazed that you were able to manage all of that ontop of a horribly boring evening class of statistics. lol Superwoman! :D

I disliked Statistics too, but I don't think it was particularly hard. You just had to keep track of all the numbers and formulas while remembering what all the symbols meant. I found College Algebra to be a lot more difficult.

True, the course material itself wasn't difficult, but maintaining attention to learn it was. Haha! Thank god that was the only math course I had to take after high school. When I hate something, it's so much harder. All the other pre-reqs had an obvious relation to the field, and it was stuff I was interested in, so it was easier to learn in that sense. I know why we take the statistics course, but honestly, that isn't helping me on the floor. I've forgotten all of it anyway. If I wanted to do research or fully understand the method explanations in research articles I would have to review stats.

You had to take Philosophy as a Pre-req for nursing school?

I did too. We had a wacky professor for that one, but it wasn't too bad.

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Specializes in CVICU.

True, the course material itself wasn't difficult, but maintaining attention to learn it was. Haha! Thank god that was the only math course I had to take after high school. When I hate something, it's so much harder. All the other pre-reqs had an obvious relation to the field, and it was stuff I was interested in, so it was easier to learn in that sense. I know why we take the statistics course, but honestly, that isn't helping me on the floor. I've forgotten all of it anyway. If I wanted to do research or fully understand the method explanations in research articles I would have to review stats.

Yeah, I took it online and I remember hating every assignment. It was so time consuming. I have no idea how I made an A in that class. Also, I don't see how I will ever use it in nursing, but who knows. I assumed if it were really pertinent to nursing, there'd be a class like "Medical Statistics" or something :p

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