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Hey! I was supposed to take it this Thursday but completely chickened out and rescheduled for the January appointment. From what I'm hearing from all my friends who already took and are in nursing school, I'll thank myself later. I cant seem to convince myself to buckle down and just STUDY! So far I've fiddled around in the McGraw-Hill's Nursing School Entrance Exam book and have glanced (and I mean GLANCED) at *scrambles around room for book* The Princeton Review Cracking the Nursing School Entrance Exam book. I was going to do the whole ATI thing but they wanted too much for that! And my friends that do have it say that it wasn't worth the money. So... hope that doesn't come back to bite me in the behind later. And from what I'm seeing all over the internet and the practice test I have taken it seems like very basic stuff. Not sure though. But good luck on your exams! And keep us posted on how it goes. Also Mometrix also has a TON of free videos to help you prepare for the TEAS. I watch that... in between looking at youtube videos.

Ok, first things first, CALM DOWN! We've all had those freak out classes. No worries. Find out what works best for you. I personally do best when I scramble all that I can down on in lecture and listen. I make sure to even write the little side comments I say to myself that help me better understand the material, but otherwise wouldn't make sense to anyone else. Then I go home and rewrite everything much neater in separate notebook (side notes included). I call that my "let me see" notebook, for when people ask to see your notes that's the one that you show them. I also took that one to school on test days to review before exams. Also draw draw DRAW! I became the next Di Vinci drawing diagrams. And a last tid-bit... ok this might seem... weird, but it worked. I would sing my notes. Like I would make up a song covering important points to the tune of songs I already loved. Then during the test I would hum the song and it would all come back to me. And if it was a really large point or something that required a direction of flow or something... I would make up a little dance. Anything I could do while sitting down, mainly hand gestures, to go with the song. Don't judge me! It worked for me! I say all this to say don't freak out, just find out what works for you. Try looking back at classes you did really well on and see what you did in those. And if that still doesn't work... and 5!...6!...7!...8...

I was always told long as your math and sciences were high you would be ok. Plus I believe that you are able to retake one science class over even if you passed it. But my mom always says you always have to at least try. The worst they can do is tell you no. But at least you have a solid no and not a what if.

This was beautifully written. As someone who works with AD patients on the regular (I work for an assisted living facility for people with memory loss) I can relate to the joy of just getting them to the "happy and comfortable" place. A lot of the family members don't quite understand how AD works or just choose not to acknowledge that their loved one is living with it, so they get upset when they see their mom or grandma playing with toys or reading children's books. They would prefer them playing chess or reading the latest edition of Reader's Digest. However with someone living with that condition, in their mind, reading The Three Bears is just as entertaining to them (if not more so) as reading something more "suitable". I know this cause I have been caught in many a snooze fest while attempting to read Edger Allen Poe to them. My pt have late stage AD and at this point my goal is to preserve what they do have (without forcing them) and to help them (safely) do what makes THEM happy. Your mom is lucky to have such an understanding daughter and I'm sure if she could communicate with you she would tell you say and thank you a thousand times. So as a person who works with people living with AD, I would like to thank you.

I'm going through the same thing at the moment. I always feel like I'm not as smart as everyone else and that I'm going to fail out. I've been stretching out my prerequisites to the max (almost ten years) out of pure fear and self doubt. I don't know how I'm going to do on my teas exam. But after reading this I feel much better. Not saying that I'm mighty mouse just yet but I'm at least up to atom ant status. Thank you so much for this post.