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My school doesn't round up. You can have a 74.99% and you will not get the 75 needed for a C.

I would move on from it. If they have a problem, kill them with kindness. That will get to them more than confronting them. I do this all of the time with people that I work with.

I would use the NCLEX app from ATI for the iPHONE for preparation. It really helps on tests. Many questions are similar.

Congrats! Just ended my first semester, also. Med-Surg will be a little more difficult!

Ours is a 90-100 = A 82-89 = B 75-81 = C D is failing and you receive 1 re-entry. No rounding at all!

I currently work full time while in nursing school. I am only in my first semester right now. I do think it is doable. If you are working in a hospital setting, I think it will only help in your nursing school adventures... Stick with the working until you have to stop. You'll know when that is.

Don't pay the other person on here any attention. You will not be a know-it-all. I wish I would have learned a thing or two about nursing before entering the program.

Honestly, with all of the anxiety caused by nursing school, you may want to turn to a lower dose of an anti-anxiety drug. I don't mean that in any sort of offensive way. It may just ease some of that anxiety that you are feeling.

Buy a pocket drug guide for clinicals. The Lippincott's Drug Guide is a great one. It's so much easier to have a pocket version during clinicals and they are not that expensive.

I just checked, and I paid $19.99 on iTUNES. It is really worth it! There is a free version but it is not very helpful. There are other NCLEX tutorials out there, but the ATI RN Mentor - NCLEX Exam Preparation" is the one to get.

There are at least 1,000 different questions on the full version. There are at least 100 questions per topic in the "Clinical Area". There are 8 topics which include: Adult Med-Surg, Fundamentals, Leadership, Maternal Newborn, Mental Health, Nursing Care of Children, Nutrition, and Pharmacology. There are 100 questions per topic in the NCLEX Area with 8 topics, and there are 100 questions per topic in the Body Function Area with 10 topics. So, I guess that is a total of 2,600 questions or so. There I am in my first semester and the Fundamentals, Nutrition, and Pharmacology questions were very helpful. Hope this helps.

If it's the RN Mentor app by ATI for the iPHONE, I find it incredibly helpful. You can customize quizzes according to which classes you are in currently. The questions are hard, but it will give you the rationale behind each answer.

If you go into this worrying about being discriminated against, you will think every time something doesn't go your way that it involves discrimination. The nursing instructors do not discriminate. If anything, they welcome the diversity. When I hear men (and I am also a man) say that they feel as though they may be discriminated against before even starting the program, I feel that they are looking for an excuse to use when they may fail some sort of test or when they have an unsatisfactory in clinical. I just say get over your thoughts of being discriminated against and be a good student and you'll do fine.

3 out of 40

Either the Littman Classic II or the Lightweight version of the Classic.