any LPN students here with info to share?

Read the text, take notes from it, and re-write your notes at least once when it comes time to study for an exam. Then make a study guide with bullets of what you need to know, and go through them with a partner. Put a star next to the facts you have trouble with, and re-write those until you narrow it down enough until you are comfortable with most of what you have studied. I used to use a marker board and write down what I thought the answer was, look at the answer to see if I was correct, rewrite it from the notes if it was wrong, erase it then try it from memory again. I also used to make up words or phrases if it was a list of things I needed to remember, and I would make it really odd or funny words that would stand out. Don't overlook the simple, basic things those are usually what gets asked.

Here's what I do. I read, and try to understand. I do not try to memorize. Then, once I get my PowerPoint, I take the points that are covered in them, find them in the book (where there is usually more information on those points, that couldn't fit into the PowerPoint) and I make an outline, with the points and under it the information from the book about those points.

I'm a junior in a BSN program now and that's how I got through my first year of nursing school - fundmamentals, patho, etc.

Hope that makes sense.

Great answers, vanbu and zoeksyrianos