Setting myself up for failure?

Chemistry can be extremely difficult to understand if you dont have the right teacher. Taking is online could be a gamble, so you should try to look the teacher up on the rate my professor website. If people are saying the class is easy, go for it. Otherwise, see if you can take chem in the summer so that you can focus on one difficult science class at a time

Thanks for the suggestion! Hopefully I can find good reviews, otherwise I guess it will be best to wait until next Summer to take chem :/ I don't know why I hadn't considered that, guess I was too busy freaking out bc I planned on being done with pre-reqs this December. It would only put me behind an additional 2 months if I do that so it won't be too bad. Thanks again!

I've learned the hard way that if it's something that sounds complicated, let a teacher teach you in person. Unless you are extremely disciplined and have the ability to teach yourself, you're better off taking the class in person. It helps a lot.

It seems like you need a tutor, you need someone other than your teacher to step in and help you understand the material. My school offers that service to all students. If you can't pass BIO then how do you expect to pass A&P? All in all I say don't give up just get your priorities straight. I had to cut back on my hours at work to put in more study time to pass my classes. It's all up to you don't waste your time and money.

I know you don't want to take A&P with chem, which is why you want to take it in Fall, but I just don't think that sounds like a good idea given the info in your post. Especially if the only way you can take chem is to take it online.

In my experience with online classes, you have to be able to teach yourself. You can't always get the help you need from the instructor and trying to type out chem questions and answers seems like a headache to me. I think chem is the kind of class you should take in person, since you didn't do well in bio and you admit that the chem in the class was confusing for you. So if that means that you wait until Spring, then you should do that. It's better to wait and have a better chance for success than to do poorly and then have to retake it anyway. Plus, don't you have to go in person for the labs anyway?

Your focus for this semester should be to pass bio with a good grade, not bite off more than you can chew. You should know what to expect from bio now and you can focus all your energies into mastering the things that held you back before. That's what I would do.

I know everyone wants to get through the pre-reqs quickly but these are not the classes to scrape by and rush through. You want to master the material and get great grades so you can be prepared for and be a better candidate for nursing school. If you need to take one science course per semester to give it your all, then do that.

Thanks everyone! The labs are online, too. You get instructions and have to send in pictures. Very strange. Now that I've had time to process everything, I've decided to just wait to take chem. It will take longer, but it would be far too overwhelming to do it all at once. I'm just going to take math and bio in the Fall and focus on getting As in those classes which is what I'm used to getting. I didn't pass bio bc I didn't study for the first 2 exams, the only one I studied for was the last one which I did well on, and then tried to read all 18 chapters that were on the final in 2 days which clearly wasn't a good idea. I only have myself to blame so time to face the consequences. At least I have some hope knowing that the test I did study for I passed. Now I just need to study for each test in the Fall. Expensive lesson learned.