What is the hardest course you have ever taken and why?

nguyency77, CNA · Apr 1, 2012

nguyency77...really? Intro to Biology was harder than A&P I and II? Those must have been some easy A&P professors even reading you had a difficult professor as far as Intro goes. At my school Intro to Bio vs A&P is akin to Elementary Algebra vs Calc.

I was surprised that Intro was harder than A&P, too!

My A&P classes are hybrid. The teacher himself is really knowledgeable because he's been teaching A&P forever. His test questions are actually pretty fair. Very rarely are there trick questions. The only problem is that he doesn't lecture much when the class meets; it's just regurgitation of what the class was supposed to read before the actual lecture. The book was written by him, and he's not as good at writing as he is smart. It's a lot of self-teaching, and I'm okay with that because I'm a total bookworm anyway.

Our teacher gives us a LOT of resources; the ones that fail his class are the people who cannot figure out how to work the hybrid software/the iClicker, ditch class, cannot be bothered to study or go to office hours, or refuse to admit that they are failing because they won't put in the effort to even read the book.

My intro biology teacher was tough on us because it's so important to get a handle on those biology basics. She didn't want slackers going on to Micro, A&P, Patho, etc. and bombing those classes. :)

nguyency77, CNA · Apr 1, 2012

Psych class could be tough. Use examples to apply the concept. Statistics was a nerve-wracking to me. I didn't have a life when I registered for that class. It was a hard earned grade I received.

I hated stats. It was easy for me, but really boring. A lot of people had trouble figuring out how to use the TI-83/84 and we spent pretty much half the semester waiting for people to set up their scatter plots!

Seas · Apr 1, 2012

Macroeconomics.

I am taking this class as a pre-req for my RN to BSN program. Hell, I am regretting every time I study for it that I didn't pick a different class in that class group.

RNbethy · Apr 1, 2012

Organic chem & advanced organic chem...

However, I ended up loving these courses.

It's fun to work through the problems and figure out how the electrons will flow....

What's even tougher are clinical rotations: patients do not look like the diagrams in an A&P text...

It's also harder to prepare for everything you will see. You can't practice 100 problems before doing the "test" like you can with organic chem!

PinkRocksLikeMe · Apr 1, 2012

CHEMISTRY

Did I say Chemistry? LOL I LOVED pysch and I have made awesome grades, then hit chem like a brick wall, having to take class over!

ginna121 · Apr 1, 2012

Any advice when I take Chemisrty?????

WannaBNursey, ADN, ASN, RN · Apr 2, 2012

A&P2 and Statistics. I got C's in both classes, which I consider to be an unacceptible grade. I hate math and never knew what statistics was about but I knew I had to take it. I took it as a summer course and had a B all semester until I failed the final and got a C. I took A&P2 as a blended course. The lecture was online, I got to look at the notes, so I didn't have to memorize function, but the lab was in class and the lab was impossible to me! People say A&P2's lab is easier than A&P1, but in A&P1 I had info from Biology and high school A&P to build up on, there was nothing like that for A&P2. The teacher was awful. Nothing was taught, I had to study all on my own, and at the time I was taking micro and trying to take care of a sick mother, so I didn't have much study time. The lecture final was in class, not online, and half of the class got C's and D's on the final.