2018 RN

Thank you! i will keep that in mind as I study for this upcoming test.

I am currently taking Fundamentals of Nursing and Physical Assessment. as far as "retaining," I find it hard to recall information that I have studied. When I try to do practice questions I will know I have read about it but end up answering wrong because I confuse it with something else.

I am in my first semester of nursing classes. Currently I feel lost and just plain stupid. I am an older student (in my 40s),I have been in college for 2 years now. Studying has not been an issue up until this point. I have been on the presidents lists and deans list to this point. i am writing this because I am lost on how to study and retain the amount of material that we are expected to know for one test. I have tried several different things and nothing seems to be working for me. I am not a flash card person, I tried that back in A&P and it just didn't work for me. For my nursing classes I have tried reading the chapter along with PowerPoints and taking notes. Well, for me this is very time consuming and even after I finish the chapter I have not retained the information. So today decided to try a chapter outline and I ran into the same issue as taking notes. After 4 hours I was not done with the chapter and have MANY to go for our test this Friday. So, I sit here tonight LOST, HOW do you study and retain and be able to apply information from like 15 chapters on one test? Any and all suggestions welcomed, I have to get this figured out as soon as possible!!! Thanks!!!