I just stumbled across this forum and just wanted to say thank you for everyone's responses. I was hesitant about getting my PALS at first since i'm still in my second last semester of nursing. I was also told to wait before taking it because of all the prep work involved. But after reading everyone's posts, I think i'll go ahead and take it too. I'm rather slow so I'll try to read the manual and do a lot of prep work before I take it.