Pharmacology help please! 3rd semester

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I am a third semester nursing student and I just hit a dead end with pharmacology. I don't know how tp get around it, I've only passed one exam since I started this semester in this class and the exams the professor gives are very brutal! I need advice, help, anything to get me through this. I was riding a 75 in the class before this exam I got a 54. Each exam is worth 10%. Idk what to do help!!!

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What are you having trouble with?

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In addition to Esme12's question, whats your method for studying?

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I'm in Pharm right now and our instructor actually writes everything on the board and we copy it down (not always word for word, it just depends on how much you want to write). I also record lectures, and then I go home and transfer everything to note cards. So, I am hearing it usually more than once and writing it twice. My lowest score so far has been an 84. I was really intimidated by Pharm and thought it would be SO difficult. It is difficult, but I swear writing it down helps. Even if your instructor just does PowerPoints, WRITE IT OUT. I wouldn't say I spend a HUGE amount of time on the class. Maybe 5-10 hours per exam, and that's with making flash cards. My biggest problem with the low exam score is I got confused on the different classes of cardiac drugs. Antidysrhythmics greatly confused me. Our instructor tells a story with most of the huge drugs though. Maybe try to make things personal...think of someone you know that has that disease. There are lots of ways to make it more doable.

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I am a third semester nursing student and I just hit a dead end with pharmacology. I don't know how tp get around it, I've only passed one exam since I started this semester in this class and the exams the professor gives are very brutal! I need advice, help, anything to get me through this. I was riding a 75 in the class before this exam I got a 54. Each exam is worth 10%. Idk what to do help!!!
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