Statistics vs A&P

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Hello Everyone,

I am doing my pre req's for nursing and next semester will be my first A&P class. I want to go for my BSN so I will be having to take Stat's as well. When I first started to pursue this I thought A&P would be terrifying (and maybe it will be) but when I discovered I would have to take a Stat's class I am now more terrified of that. So I am wondering, for those of you that have taken both, which was harder? I am starting math from scratch so I am hoping that will help me to get through Stat's evenutally.

Thanks in advance for your imput

Nichole

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Get a Hewlett Packard Business calculator and you should have no problems at all with Statistics. :)

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I have taken both

IMHO. A+P is harder- AND I didn't even find A+P to be hard ( I finished A+P1 with a 100.1 and am now in A+P 2 with a 98). A+P was a ton of memorizing and understanding concepts...being able to connect the dots..and many " a ha!" moments.

Statistics, to me, was learning the formulas. Reading the questions thoroughly...plugging the right ##'s into my calculator in the right sequence and getting an answer. Statistics is literally not like any other " math" course. 99.9% of it was on a calculator and 99,9% of it was just knowing which ## to put where in the formula.

I got an A in Statistics and I never stressed about it.... I tended to over stress about A+P ha ha.

FWIW I was TERRIFIED of Statistics going in..

BTW my calculator was a Texas Instruments graphing calculator...you WILL need an advanced calculator... I believe mine was the TI-83? My boyfriend gave it to me but I know it was about $100

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

To me A&P was harder, because there was more material and more memorizations.

I made an A recently in Statistics and it was a lot of work, but not that hard. But so horribly boring, Probably my least favorite course (other than Speech) so far.

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Specializes in new mother/baby nurse.

FOr me A+P was harder because of the massive amount of information that we had to remember. Statistics for me was a breeze.

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Statistics, to me, was learning the formulas. Reading the questions thoroughly...plugging the right ##'s into my calculator in the right sequence and getting an answer. Statistics is literally not like any other " math" course. 99.9% of it was on a calculator and 99,9% of it was just knowing which ## to put where in the formula.

Exactly! You don't have to be a math whiz to do well in Statistics, it's more understanding which formulas to use where.

A&P was 1000X harder.

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Because of the fact that I took Stats online and really didn't keep up with it as well as I should have..I'm going to say stats. IT was just poor judgement on my part to take that class online. Period. I sailed through a&p with no problems and made an A, but struggled for my Stats B.

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Thank you so much for your imput I really appreciate it. I am looking forward to A&P so I am hoping that will help too! Although I got an 88 on my test today for Pre Algebra so sometimes I wonder if I will make it through any class!

Thanks again

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

I'm awful at math and got the highest grade in my stats class. A&P is harder, I'd say. However, in stats we got to use our book/notes for the calculations part of the test. Without that, I probably would have not done so well.

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