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Nancy, I'm familiar w/ what you're going through. I'm a 4th semester student who repeated 2nd & barely made it past 3rd ha! I get burnt out very easily, as I have a family & it's easy to get distracted w/ a 3 yr old active daughter. At the beginning of the semester, my older sister (35) committed suicide 6 days before my 1st test (Psych). We were extremely close & I decided to put it off til the end of the semester b/c I didn't think I would pass d/t a severe lack of prep & study time, as you can imagine. Long story short, our 2nd test was on musculoskeletal content & I studied my tail off. I pulled out an 84. I've made A's, but I'm generally a B nursing student, & I'm ok w/ that. Fast forward to the next content (Neuro), we had 2 class days & 1 clinical day put off d/t to weather. 4th semester moves very fast, so any sort of fluctuation of the schedule messes me up & distractions take hold. We had to put off our test for 5 days & I absolutely bombed it. I made a 64... the lowest I've ever made in school & I now have a failing average. The good news, I've got almost a month before the next test & I'm focused again. I can't afford to repeat another semester & my family can't take it. I'm going to use all of my available resources & attack Sensory/Burns/Emergent Care from a different angle. Quality over quantity. The toughest part of nursing school is not comprehending the content, it's focusing on what you're going to be tested on... & often times that isn't the most important content. That's what's so frustrating for me, as a male, is what SHOULD be tested isn't b/c they want you to think outside of the typical mechanical way of thinking that most males do. Good luck to you & I hope it works out for you.