My Personal Experience With The College Network Study Guides/Modules

The World Wide Web is home to many differing opinions regarding The College Network and its study materials. I cannot speak personally concerning their business practices, or the costs associated with purchasing anything directly from them. I can, however, comment about their study guides/modules themselves.

I have spoken multiple times on this blog concerning how I have been using older versions of TCN guides to prepare for my Excelsior College exams. Although a single study system rarely works for everyone, I have had great success using these modules. I have used TCN modules to pass 6 exams so far, scoring an "A" or "B" on each. These include:

1. Anatomy & Physiology
2. Microbiology
3. EONC: Health Safety
4. EONC: Health Differences
5. EONC: Chronicity
6. EONC: Reproductive Health

I have used the test-prep CD's offered for sale by Larends and SudyGroup101 found on Ebay as supplemental sources, as well as FlashcardExchange.com, but haven't used either extensively. My personal opinion is that the TCN modules are well written and cover all necessary information. The versions I have used up until this point were printed between 2004 and 2006, with the exception of one. The EONC: Reproductive Health guide was printed in 2007.

I hope that this information is helpful. Again, I have no experience in dealing with The College Network directly, I have only used second-hand study guides.

Good luck to everyone, and please feel free to contact me if you feel that I may of some assistance.

Reproductive Health Exam

Just took, and passed, Essentials of Nursing Care: Reproductive Health this past Saturday (March 12, 2011). Scored a B. Was very pleased with this grade as there was a lot of information covered for that exam. For this test I used The College Network module and StudyGroup101's study CD to augment the module.

The TCN module that I used this time was not one that was written for the older series of Nursing Concepts exams, as I have used in the past. For this exam I used the updated TCN module Essentials of Nursing Care: Reproductive Health.

Thus far I have used The College Network modules as my primary study source for 6 exams, including:

Microbiology

Anatomy and Physiology

EONC: Health Safety

EONC: Health Differences

EONC: Chronicity

EONC: Reproductive Health

I'm planning on using the TCN module to study for the next exam, Health Differences 1, and will let everyone know how it works out.