So frustrated and sad..

[pdxmomazon]

I just got my first F on a quiz EVER (in my AP 1, I have my BS and a great GPA from that.) I attended two labs (my own and my lecture prof's, which was vastly better.) I spent 3+ extra hours in the library with the arm and leg models, and hours and hours at home with flashcards, homemade study sheets, etc. I know the muscles really well, and the major markings of the bones. Of the 200+ items to memorize, I have about 170+ down pat. I previously had an 87% in lab and a 92% in lecture. Now, I have an 89% overall. We all know it takes an A in A&P to be considered for nursing school. Sigh. I've never worked so hard and done so poorly. I feel like my lab teacher (if you could call her a teacher) doesn't care how we do. She takes it literally that she can ask about any and every single thing on the 200+ list. (She even gave us "hints" like "this would make a great quiz question" and then didn't ask them...) No one got over a 20/30 on the quiz (of the 11 pupils left of the original 24) Has anyone els struggled this much with ******* A&P 1 and made it?

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[oklahomagal]

Has anyone els struggled this much with ******* A&P 1 and made it?

My anatomy teacher is pretty ruthless too... I am gonna have a B in there at the end of the semester. I will have an A in physiology. Just keep trying. Maybe you can pull it off.

[lifelearningrn, BSN, RN]

I'm impressed you've got all the bone markings down.. I BOMBED, and I mean BOMBED that exam. Fortunately though, I've done really well on all my other exams, AND he replaces your lowest grade with your final exam grade.. so all I have to do is ace the final and I'm good. (no pressure.. lol)

Teachers know when you're working your bum off. You still have other tests in this class, right? All you're going to need is 1 A to bump that grade right back into an A. You can do it!!!

[renardeau, BSN, RN]

Wait, really? Schools will dump out your application for not having As in A&P??

I'm a current undergrad at Johns Hopkins and embarrassingly, we don't offer A&P I or II currently (no lab space/staff willing to teach it) so I have to commute to another university to take it and the commute is hard/I can't go to open labs like all the other students can because my classes at Hopkins are on a different schedule. Currently, I have an 85 at Towson University's A&P I class (but the professor assures me that if I work, I can get an A, especially because there is usually an upward trend in the last third of the course.)

It's really troubling to hear the schools won't consider you if you don't have this grade, but will they take outside circumstances into account? I'm also graduating a year early with a double-major (I'm really piling on the classes while my parents are still willing to pay for them... it's kind of a predicament. There's much I want to learn... but not enough time/money AND I still need to get the grades for a BSN program.)

[pdxmomazon]

Of course I can't tell you what schools will and won't accept- I'm not an admissions counselor for a nursing program. However, I can tell you that in Portland, at this time, admissions to nursing programs are so competitive that it's pretty much common knowledge that if you are applying to OHSU or U of P, anything less than an A in A&P won't cut it. Of course, if you are a CNA or have hundreds of hours of experience, that might be another story...I'd gladly take refutations.... :-)

[azcna]

Will thousands of hours work?