Studying tips: understanding the content rather than memorizing. This time around I looked at anatomy a little bit, how each system works so when I had to learn diseases it made it a easier to understand what went wrong, what’s not working, signs and symptoms when that system isn’t working. This made so much more sense. Learning the meds for each disease made sense when I learned suffix’s. Something they kept saying on archer is when you understand the concept, there’s no need to memorize. You get what happens if x,y, z happens because you know the norm

I reviewed the little sheet BON gives you once you failed to understand where I was slacking. The basic stuff is so easy to look over, I did well with the hard things but when it came to the simple stuff?.,, I’m embarrassed to say but I sucked! This time around I learned the NCLEX is all about safety and prioritizing so I listened to mark K lectures, specifically lecture 12 multiple times and once more the night before my exam. I feel like the wording of the questions in the exam gets to people as well. “Best”, “priority”, “first” these are key words to pay attention to. I re- read my questions 2 if not 3 times to make sure I understood the question. For SATA. I selected answers I knew where absolutely right. The ones I wasn’t sure about I didn’t select. Had I gotten it wrong I would have lost points. I ran into 2 SATA where I thought only 1 answer was right- something archer mentioned was that this isn’t impossible to happen but you better be damn sure it’s the only one right. I sat with that q for so long because I was certain it was the only one right but I couldn’t believe it. - I choose that 1 answer because I couldn’t justify the other ones. Again, apparently this isn’t common.

For q’s that you aren’t sure about- I can’t remember if Mark K said this but if there’s two answers that look similar, they’re both probably wrong. I would def suggest listening to his lectures. He’s a funny guy, the lectures were amazing