please help me..im confused.

[Lizzly]

I'm an older student that went back to college after 10 years for a degree in nursing. I took Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra and College Algebra at a community college before dropping out of college for over 5 years. This summer I started classes again to get an associates in nursing. Of course, I need math to pass the nursing entrance exam so signed up for Quantitative skills and Reasoning to help me get through the ACT and Nursing Entrance Exam. My Community college requires a ACT and Teas V score so trying to prepare myself for it. Today was the first day of class and dropped his class because it was a waste of my money and time. He was covering only 4 chapters out of 15 chapters and on those 4 chapters, he wasn't covering them thoroughly. What should I do to help me get a good score on the ACT? Since I took math so long ago, I don't remember it, I thought about retaking the class. Maybe I can study Intermediate algebra on my own during the summer, and then retake College Algebra in the fall. Do you think this is a good idea, or a waste of my time? I really need help with this decision. The Quantitative Skills and Reasoning math was only bits and pieces of College Algebra and didn't make sense at all. Example, On chapter 7 on example 1, they talked about plotting numbers on the number line and on example 2 they were talking about what makes the line bend. The book doesn't cover anything thoroughly and jumps around so much that it's just a waste of time. I'm really confused about what I need to do to get through the entrance exams and ACT. I am studying hard to prepare for the ACT and even learned the Frequent words used on the SAT (500-800 words) to expand my knowledge in vocabulary. Can anyone please give me some solid advise. Hope I gave you enough information to help me.

[SeattleJess]

Try Khan University online. It's a bunch of different courses, all non-credit at little or no cost I think.

I second MrChicagoRn. Khan Academy is amazing. Use the TEAS V book to get an idea of what is being tested and then use Khan Academy to fill in your gaps for the TEAS and the ACT. (One of my nursing schools did require taking the ACT Math test even though you tend to think of that as a college entry test for high school students.)

Khan Academy makes learning fun. (There are also many other online math teaching resources; occasionally I'd fill in Khan with them.) That's what did to prepare for the various math tests for my applications to different nursing schools. I was very rusty on math but this helped me to place in the high 90s on all the math tests.

You were very smart to recognize that the class wasn't meeting your needs and to dump it. I think if you were smart enough to do that, you're smart enough to self-instruct on the basic math that's needed to do well on the ACT and TEAS V. You can do it!