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So, I had to drop statistics today. Since my midterm grade was an F, I decided to withdrawal and then retake it, so now it won't hurt my GPA. I was taking this class with chemistry while working full time night shift in an ER to pay the bills.

Do any adult nursing students have any advice for this class in particular?

I'm hoping to get an acceptance letter in May, but if I don't, I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel.

I will be taking stats this summer? Can someone tell me if stats is similar to college algebra? Will there be a lot of equations and and formulas I would have to remember?

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Specializes in Pain, critical care, administration, med.

Stats is nothing like algebra. I took it and my husband would help me with it . I had a nice professor saw how hard I worked and said my final grade was a gift! Got a C but that was alright with me.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
I'm taking a stats class right now and it's kicking my behind. .

Me too!!! But I'm committed to figuring it out! I leave class with a headache because I don't know what that man is talking about.

I'm willing to settle for a B in this class, even though I had As in all my other prereqs.

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Specializes in NICU Nurse.

I am taking stats this summer and am dreading it! I'm in college algebra now.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
I am taking stats this summer and am dreading it! I'm in college algebra now.

I'll tell you this: I have 2 ladies in my A&P class who took stats before I did. They said its do easy...it's just about plugging numbers into formulas. Their instructors and mine do provide you with all of the formulas during the exam. One of the ladies took it during the summer.

What makes stats hard for me is not knowing when to use which formula. The questions are simple but the formulas are complex.

I've even working on a 10 question stat hw assignment for a few hours today off and on. I just figured our what formula applies when he asks for probability of this given that. Took me many hours, flash cards and google searches to figure that simple thing out.

Plus stats has it's own language. I think it's Greek...a symbol to represent sigma that looks like an E which means sum and symbols that look like upside down and right side up letter "U" to denote and and or. These symbols lead you to know which formula to use.

It's crazy!

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Don't throw in the towel, we've come tooo far to throw in the towel because of one class....I'm taking statistics for the second time, because I got a D (67%) my first time. I'm again struggeling but not as much as the first time, yet still it's a very hard class. Anyhow don't give up and keep trying, Hey if I have to take a third time I will, ....it is a rough class though..:cautious:

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