jarnoldpcpro

Thank you all for your help. I know I need to learn a different way of studying for these kind of tests. I have to learn now what to study for each chapter that will better help me to understand and be able to apply to the test in each class.I just don't know where to begin with that since all i know is how to pick key words and learn what they are in a chapter, concepts and learning to apply them for the test is something new. Like for example I have a test for Pathophysiology this coming week and it is on chapters 9-Biology, Clinical Manifestations, and Treatment of Cancer , 10- Cancer Epidemiology, 11- Cancer in Children , 19- STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HEMATOLOGIC SYSTEM,, 20- ALTERATIONS OF HEMATOLOGIC FUNCTION and 21- ALTERATIONS OF HEMATOLOGIC FUNCTION IN CHILDREN. How am I to study all of that and be able to apply it? I just need to figure out what to study and be able to apply it all when it comes to test time.

I am in my first semester of nursing classes. I am taking Pathophysiology, Intro to clinical nursing, intro to professional nursing and health assessment class. I have taken an exam in each of the four classes and have bombed all four. I am studying long and hard and feel I know the information but when it comes to the test, the questions are nclex style. It all looks foreign to me. It is hard to understand what most questions are asking. Can anyone help with ideas and ways to study and how to better be prepared for these types of exams. I take notes from the power points in class and good notes from my readings in the book and then comprise the two and make another set of notes. I than take the blue print for the exam and write down again information pertaining to the blue print and study long and hard but it just does not seem to click with me. I know these are harder type questions.I previously was holding a 3.75 GPA so it can not be me slacking off cuz I am putting in the work just seems like I am spinning my wheels here and maybe better understand how to study and a better way to prepare for these classes to do well in.