[Skrawberri]

Hey guys, I take the test July 9 and have been TRYING to study....

But I was wondering if any of you guys are using MedsPub to study for boards? We had it all through school (it was assigned for us to do). And now the school is letting us do MedsPub during the summer to study for boards. Anyone using MedsPub or has used MedsPub and then taken the test?? If so, did it help on boards? Some of the questions are pretty hard so it makes me think they might be like NCLEX questions.


thanks!

[SuperSN2008]

I had Medspub as well in nursing school.

I think Medspub Q's are harder than NCLEX

[Melony, RN]

I was wondering that too. We also used to have to do those all the time in school too. They were mandated.

[Skrawberri]

Originally Posted by SuperSN2008

I had Medspub as well in nursing school.

I think Medspub Q's are harder than NCLEX

Thanks for the reply!

Do you think MedsPub helped prepare you for the NCLEX?

[SuperSN2008]

Originally Posted by Skrawberri

Thanks for the reply!

Do you think MedsPub helped prepare you for the NCLEX?

It did help me for HESI exam a lot but never got to use it for NCLEX b/c Medspub style of questions often confused me.

I used Saunders for content review & Kaplan book along with Qbanks to prepare for NCLEX.

I'm still waiting for my results.

[kelemt]

I had MEdspub but i did not like the set up or the format
So i really didn't use it at all
kelly

[LeesieBug]

I hated, hated, hated those MedsPub questions allll through school, and while studying for the test. Doing the questions was the only method of study I used. Those questions are such a pain in the butt.

My opinion changed COMPLETELY after taking NCLEX. The actual test was a piece of cake after all those dang MedsPub questions! Do them a lot....if you can start passing those suckers consistently with a 75 or 80 you should be good to go.

[unpetitpoulet]

I had medspub in nursing school. I hated it then but after taking the NCLEX on monday I was/I am wiiiiiisshing the nclex had been as easy as my medspub questions. I thought that medspub gave you some good answer choices, a good stem (from which you could figure things out...sometimes), and sort of more straight forward questions. I addition, I used kaplan, lippencott (Sp?), incredibly easy, and exam cram to study -- none of which really gave me as difficult questions as I was given. AND not neaaarly enough SATAs -- I think I got 30 SATAs (my worst question type). fingers crossed for my results -- still trying to figure out why pearson vue has me as never taken a pearson vue test on their website.

[sher1206]

We are forced to use it and charged 107.00 per semester for it. That means that by the time I graduate I will have spent 428.00 on MedsPub alone so it BETTER have proven to be useful when I sit for the NCLEX

We have to do NurseLogic in its entirety before we take our first unit exam next week or they won't even allow us to test nor will they allow any makeups if we miss the test due to lack of completion. NAZIs!

I have sat at this computer for the last 11 hours methodically going through each module and although I am starting to see some of the rationale behind it from a test taking standpoint, I gotta say.... that narrator's monotone voice is about to make me stick an ice pick through my eardrums. If I could I would smack her and tell her to liven it up. She'll probably visit me in my sleep in the form of a nightmare!

[sher1206]

Also, and forgive the double post:

The way that the MedsPub questions are set up and the way they teach you to answer them, it seems to me, that if one learned how to read the questions correctly and you're a decent test taker you have a pretty good chance of getting the answer correct without any real knowledge base of the subject matter.

For instance they teach you to choose the most global response and eliminate questions with absolute words like only, never, always etc. --And if a portion of the question is repeated in the answer that is probably the right answer or if two of the answers basically say the same thing they are both the wrong answer. Also usually one of the answers is blatantly incorrect.

So saying I have a question on Renal. If one of the questions has an absolute word, it's out... if two others say the same thing in different words then BAM I know the answer can only be the remaining one and I MAY or MAY NOT understand why it is or isn't correct from a Renal standpoint unless I go back and explore the rationale behind it.

We're not gonna have this luxury in real world situations but we do need to understand WHAT to do WHEN and often times under pressure. You only know that if there is knowledge base on which you have built.

Is this how the NCLEX questions are set up? Do they follow the same theories/format as MedsPub because my program pushes MedsPub as if it were the be all end all to passing our boards.

There is a girl in my class who is an excellent test taker, she understands how to read a question, and makes excellent grades but then you ask her why she chose the answer she did and she invariably can't explain why. She just always says "Process of Elimination."

Conversely there was a girl in my group last semester who ruled at clinicals and understood why she needed to do what she did and when, however she sucked at test taking and didn't pass first semester because of it.

Sorry if this is confusing I'm just wondering how much effort & time I should put into this beyond what I have to be able to take our first test.