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Thanks for the encouragement! It's just there are a lot of people in my cohort and in my nursing school who are instinctively getting the right answers and getting A's on the NCLEX style questions and tests... I know I'm being hard on myself so I wanted to get a feel from more experienced nurses who can see the big picture on whether doing well on these questions really reflects success.

I'm a first semester nursing student, and I have 3 weeks left in my semester. I haven't been getting any A's, I've just been average and getting B's, and high C's. Before nursing school I was a straight A student. In the end, most likely I'll get straight B's overall this semester. I feel like I'm having trouble determining what the "most correct" answer is when it comes to Fundamentals/NCLEX style questions. Does being able or not being able to answer these questions well reflect very much on how well you'll do as a nurse? I've been doing pretty well on my skills validations and got an A in clinicals and on my care plan, but I feel like no matter how much I read my Fundamentals textbook I'm not instinctively getting the right answer for quizzes/exams...

I really appreciate you sharing this. I'm in my first semester of nursing school, I have 3 weeks left of my first semester and it looks like I'm probably going to get straight Bs... Before nursing school, I was a straight A student... not anymore. I'm a perfectionist, so it's been a little difficult for me to accept the B's and not get anything higher than a B on exams even though I'm studying so much and working so hard... It's also difficult when my classmates always compare their grades and talk about their A's and good grades (my class is pretty competitive)... But I know that nursing school is completely different than other schools. So far I have loved nursing school, I have loved everything I've been learning and every experience, especially in clinicals, has been life-changing. I just have to keep reminding myself that having straight A's does not necessarily make a good nurse. I just want to be able to learn as much as I can from nursing school and be able to care for people the way I was cared for by nurses when I had to spend time in the hospital. Nursing school is definitely hard and a humbling experience but I definitely love it :) Thanks again for your post it's definitely encouraging :)

I received the call on Monday afternoon that I got in! I'm so excited! :) Is there anyone else out here that got in? I am going to the Shady Grove Campus.