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Hi! I'm just starting some of my prereq's towards my nursing degree. I still have to take A&P1 and 2 and micro. Any tips for me on scheduling? Is harder if I take micro with A&P1 or should I take it by itself or with less difficult classes.

Any one have any tips to getting starting on this lovely road!! :-) I'm a little nervous! So all the help I can get would be great!

If anyone has taken the NET test do you have any tips on that?

Thanks!

Hi! I'm just starting some of my prereq's towards my nursing degree. I still have to take A&P1 and 2 and micro. Any tips for me on scheduling? Is harder if I take micro with A&P1 or should I take it by itself or with less difficult classes.

Any one have any tips to getting starting on this lovely road!! :-) I'm a little nervous! So all the help I can get would be great!

If anyone has taken the NET test do you have any tips on that?

Thanks!

I suggest that you do not take Micro with A&P 1 or A&P 2. Also, I got the study guide for the NET, and it was definitely worth it. I can't stress the following enough: STAY ON TOP OF YOUR READING FOR A&P 1, 2, AND MICRO. If you fall behind you will start to feel completely overwhelmed and won't know where to start. :uhoh3: You need to read and try your best to understand what you are going to be going over in class ahead of time. Then, whatever you don't understand, let your professor clear up. Good luck!

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I took A&P1 and Micro together last semester and got A's in both classes. I am taking A&P2 and Psych Online this semester and feel it is a breeze compared to last. It is doable but you have to be organized and disciplined. If you tend to slack off or put things off till the last minute I wouldnt recommend taking two sciences together. If you are the type to stay ahead of the game then it is possibly an option. I did it because I really had no other choice in the matter but I made it through just fine. Good luck in your decision.

P.S. The only advice I have for you with the NET is make sure you know how to convert percents, decimals and fractions, there is minimal basic algebra so if you can solve for N then you will do just fine. Ratio's were my biggest peeve so I focused on those while studying for it and I managed a 99% on the math portion. The reading there realy isnt a way to study for it. I guess just search online for articles and read as many of them as you can to improve your reading speed and also you retention abilities. Good luck to you!

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In my program we only have to take two of the Bio classes as prereq's before enterning the RN program. The 3rd one can be taken once you are actually in the nursing program.I'm not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing but thats how it works. We can of course take all 3 if we would like before going into the RN program. (if you end up on a waiting list etc...)

We can either take A&P 1 and A&P 2

or

A&P 1 and Micro

Does anyone elses college do it this way?

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Princess, I started an RN in program in NY that actually didn't have any prereqs. So, I was fresh out of high school, newly married and taking: A&P I, English, Statistics, Drug Calculations, Pharmacology, 2 nursing theory classes, and 2 clinical sets of clinicals. I did well, and I thought that it was great b/c then the nursing program was really a 2 year program. When i tranferred to a school in TX, they wouldn't accept my nursing credits, so I had to start that over, and they had prereqs, which meant that I had to take micro & A&P II before I could start the nursing program. Needless to say, it threw me off by 2 years, but I completed it, and I am heading off to take my boards right now!

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Princess, I started an RN in program in NY that actually didn't have any prereqs. So, I was fresh out of high school, newly married and taking: A&P I, English, Statistics, Drug Calculations, Pharmacology, 2 nursing theory classes, and 2 clinical sets of clinicals. I did well, and I thought that it was great b/c then the nursing program was really a 2 year program. When i tranferred to a school in TX, they wouldn't accept my nursing credits, so I had to start that over, and they had prereqs, which meant that I had to take micro & A&P II before I could start the nursing program. Needless to say, it threw me off by 2 years, but I completed it, and I am heading off to take my boards right now!

The ADN program I went to was designed with that you could get it in two years fresh from high school if you had high school biology, chemistry, and algerbra. Which I had, but because I worked chose to go slower. There was one women in my class who came right out of high school and did the same thing as you. I would feel so bad for her, she'd be doing care plans and writing a term paper due, running off to A&P Lab and studying that. It was dreadful for her, but she made it through. Good luck on boards.

Basically, any combination of courses is possible and can be done. It's an individual situation, what you need and how long you have to complete it.

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Hi! I'm just starting some of my prereq's towards my nursing degree. I still have to take A&P1 and 2 and micro. Any tips for me on scheduling? Is harder if I take micro with A&P1 or should I take it by itself or with less difficult classes.

Any one have any tips to getting starting on this lovely road!! :-) I'm a little nervous! So all the help I can get would be great!

If anyone has taken the NET test do you have any tips on that?

Thanks!

All the sciences require extra attention and dedication because they can be tough. I suggest you take only one sciene course and pair it up with a couple of Gen. Eds to get them out of the way.

Good Luck,

Jessica

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Thank you everyone for your help. It has really helped me out soooo much!! Thank you for the info on the NET test also!! Someone had said something about they got a study guide? Where did you find this at? Is there anything on the computer you can download??

But thanks again. I have decided just to take AandP 1 by itself. I will see how well that goes and if it goes really good then next semester i will take AandP 2 and micro together. But this semester i will just take 1 science, humanities, dev psy, and my algebra class i have to take.

I heard that there are really long waiting list to get into the nursing programs. What does everyone do in the mean time waiting to get in? I was just wondering about that.

thanks again

nicole

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Thank you for the info on the NET test also!! Someone had said something about they got a study guide? Where did you find this at?

I got the study guide from my bookstore. It's called Study Guide for the NET HOBET HELP. (ISBN# 0967544645 ) It 's written by the same people that wrote the test, and contains practice questions with explanations of the answers. The book tells you what you need to work on based on your results from the practice tests. The NET was fairly simple, but I'm glad I got the book, because it allowed me to see what the NET would be like, and practice the types of questions that were on it before taking it. The book is pretty short and to the point, which I liked. I read the whole thing in a couple nights, and I scored in the 98th percentile!

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Hi! I'm just starting some of my prereq's towards my nursing degree. I still have to take A&P1 and 2 and micro. Any tips for me on scheduling? Is harder if I take micro with A&P1 or should I take it by itself or with less difficult classes.

Any one have any tips to getting starting on this lovely road!! :-) I'm a little nervous! So all the help I can get would be great!

If anyone has taken the NET test do you have any tips on that?

Thanks!

Good Luck. Only you can judge the capacity of workload you can handle. I took A&P 2, A&P2 Lab, Micro, and Micro Lab all together along with a math class. But than again Im crazy. I had to study but it was doable. but hey if you got time, take your time. Best of Luck

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