Not to fail again

[soshm]

Hi so I am in a 2-year college for RN Associates and I took two classes (some people take them separately and some together based on situation )i passed one and I failed one. The one I failed I worked harder on, it happens to be harder than the other one. I still spent most of the time studying and I failed but I actually can't figure out what to do differently.I sat in class and paid attention I read the chapters, i studied hours and hours, I did practice questions. I basically did everything that people said to do to. How can I pinpoint where to do different so that does not happen again? anyone have any suggestions?

[jess.mont, ADN, RN]

It would be helpful to know what the class were.

[soshm]

the class is fundamentals of nursing it is divided into two classes

[AliNajaCat]

I say this over and over again, so here goes: Your faculty want to see you succeed. They teach because they want to see people go out into the world with knowledge. In just about every post like yours I read, I never see one mention of, "I was in the professor's office every week to go over the material and where I might be missing something."

As faculty it made me crazy to find out halfway thru the semester (mid-term exams) that somebody has been missing the boat. In college, the student has to take the responsibility to seek help or supplemental learning. This is why faculty have office hours, TAs, and review classes outside of regular class hours.

In nursing more than in many courses you cannot afford to think you'll make it up later in the semester, or study enough for the final. Nursing school education is cumulative. You can't fall behind because this week's material builds on last week's. If you don't have a good working knowledge of something, you won't have a solid foundation for the next thing....and that sort of failure IS cumulative.

Go make a weekly appointment to see the faculty for any course you don't feel completely confident in. Hope is good, but hope is not a plan.

[soshm]

I thought I knew it cold in my sleep and all and whatever I wasn't sure about I would either look up on the internet or ask a friend or look in my book .It's more the critical thinking part when it comes to a test that I am not sure where I went wrong I did so many practice questions and then I went back to see how I got certain questions wrong and I would understand but it didn't seem to help my grade overall.About going over to faculty my professor taught a bunch classes she doesn't have time for me to be there often asking questions anyway.