Retaking Physiology and accept an F?

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I am in the middle of taking a course in Human Physiology at my local community college. At this point, I have passed the time to drop the class with a W and I've been thinking that I'm not sure if I want to take a C in this class. Our professor is hard, his exams are very difficult but I know it's good in the long run since it encourages a LOT of critical thinking. However, I didn't get as strong of a grasp on the initial stuff and I know I'll be lucky I get a C in this class.

I know that if you get an F in a course, you can retake it to replace the grade completely. At this point, my thoughts are geared towards accepting an F in this course, knowing that I will retake it next semester.

For those of you who are taking pre-reqs right now and those of you in nursing programs, does retaking physiology make your chances of getting in harder or hinder your chances?

Any feedback is appreciated!

Specializes in School Nursing.
Lol my engineering physics teacher did. I failed every test. It was HARD, I was so lost. I went to tutoring, I talked to him several times.

The final was 1/2 multiple choice half word problems. I left the entire word problems section blank. I just flat out gave up.

The.guy gave me a C

Lol. That's what I call sympathy points. Some teachers do it, some don't.

Wow- I need a teacher like that for when I retake college algebra. lol

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The nursing schools near me, allow no more than one prerequisite retake.

So, I suggest you try harder.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.

Yea you think nursing pre reqs are bad. Try engineering classes. Differential equatoons, vector statics, the works ugg. Horrible, glad I switched my major back to nursing. Lol

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Yea you think nursing pre reqs are bad. Try engineering classes. Differential equatoons, vector statics, the works ugg. Horrible, glad I switched my major back to nursing. Lol

Two completely different beasts. We have had two students with previous engineering degrees fail out of our program.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.
Two completely different beasts. We have had two students with previous engineering degrees fail out of our program.

Hmm I guess so. I was comparing nursing pre reqs to engineering support courses.:p

Obviously, I mean their both are different, I just found engineering harder.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Hmm I guess so. I was comparing nursing pre reqs to engineering support courses.:p

Obviously, I mean their both are different, I just found engineering harder.

That's what these 2 people thought until they failed out. LOL But they also had a total different way of thinking and they just could never grasp the way Nursing School was. I am not sure how they did in their pre-reqs though.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.

Oh lol

Well I see why they failed out. Engineering is um complex, and very logical. It honestly does req a different way of thinking. Most of it, like engineering support courses are calculus and advanced physics which are all about black and white, no grey matter. Nursing is the opposite, there isn't always a "book case" so to speak. You do use critical thinking in engineering but its on the logical side. Where nursing is also critical thinking but different, ya know? Lol. So yea I cam totally see how they failed out.

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