What was the most helpful thing you did to successfully pass your nursing degree?

[Zyrv]

What was it that helped you the most to successfully complete nursing school? Was it time management, avoiding romance/family planning, studying all night and all day, working with a group of friends, was it a combination of things?

And why?

[Zyrv]

If you hadn't eaten it in the first place, you wouldn't have needed to go through all that, you know.

I'm going to give you what might likely be the worst feedback possible on this thread, and I don't recommend trying this in the beginning by any means. In my first semester, I studied and went through all the motions. At some point in the second semester, I realized the less I studied, the better I did. I still put my all into Clinicals and assignments, but the actual studying I put on the back burner because I realized it made me overthink everything and get too easily distracted by the tricky things the professors throw in to distract you. I gave up on As in nursing school, I accepted I wouldn't be perfect, and I learned to engage myself in more meaningful ways than memorizing a book. My final total GPA was about a 3.49, I passed the NCLEX the first time, and was hired before graduation.

My best advice? Try tricks if you have to to find your way, but you already know what makes you learn. Do that.

As long as you passed, that is all that matters and you did so you must have done something right.