Students NCLEX
Published Jan 19, 2013
You are reading page 4 of Average Scores on Kaplan Question Trainers and Qbank and Passed NCLEX 1/18/2013
bb1972
2 Posts
I am just the follow up kinda guy and wanted to give you all a heads up... I took my NCLEX-RN for the 3rd time this morning and got the good pop up when I got home - I WAS OUT IN 75 QUESTIONS (1st time FAILED in 75, 2nd time got all 265 and this time, yep, out in 75 and got the good ole pop up).... so, am sure I passed... it's never wrong... the stories on here about it being wrong have actually not been verified by anyone...so don't buy into it. Also, as you can see, my scores weren't the best... my advice to anyone reading these posts looking for shreds of hope is this...
1. READ ALL THESE POSTS AND DO WHAT EVERYONE IS TELLING YOU TO DO... I did Hurst...didn't help me - the two things that I found MOST helpful were 1) NCSBN has a review - their review alone got me from 75 questions to 265 - they were very similar to NCLEX and 2) KAPLAN, the decision tree didn't help me AT ALL, what did help me was understanding what NCLEX was asking in the question and making SMART answer choices.
2. DO AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN - I was doing 100 per day and reviewing the rationales.
3. DO NOT GIVE UP - I ultimately finished 93% of the QBank questions with 55% correct.
SEE YOU ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE...and post your success or failures here - I was you, sitting here sorting through and reading all these posts about scores and passing and stuff... let others know what worked or didn't work... it means a lot to folks when it's 1am the night before the NCLEX and someone felt the same way you did... helps to get you through...
SBrn1
24 Posts
This might be a bad question but what's the difference between qbank and trainer? And which resembles the nclex more? Thanks!!!!
Anyone?
honey2010
8 Posts
Hello, I am enrolled in Kaplan On Demand and if I'm not mistaken, Question Trainers are the exams that you cannot customize by topic/ numbers. The qbank are also practice tests (just like question trainers) but you can choose the topics you want to answer (or you can also answer all questions on ALL topics) and you can also choose how many questions you want to answer.
DatMurse
792 Posts
Currently
Diagnostic:49% I doubted myself a lot on these 2
Q1: 41 A lot of doubts within myself
Q2: 61 Took the test fast, confidence
Q3: 50, a lot of information I never seen or knew about
Q4: 64 I got a lot of easy stuff wrong, hard stuff right.
Q5:
Q6:
Q7:
Diagnostic: 61.44%
Qbank Avg: 62% correct 36% of material has been covered
Focus on weakpoints. the big ones for me were
Eriksons stage and age appropriate toys/interactions
everything about Fetal monitoring
Myelograms and Pyelograms
TV is horrid distraction for alzheimers
Hip contractures
Billy11
16 Posts
Hello anh_thule,
Thank you for your post. I will be taking the nclex in February and have similar trainer scores.
I know you mentioned that it was your second time taking the exam. May I ask what you did differently from the first vs the second time around?
Many thanks.
RN59217
80 Posts
Hi. I just took the test yesterday. I don't have access to Kaplan anymore 'cause my course ended yesterday as well (hence why I scheduled it as my test day). From what I remember, my Diagnostic was 57, around the 60s for QT 1-5. I took those kind of early in the Kaplan course. I didn't like the scores I was getting so I took a break and studied the content etc. When I went back to do QT 6 I think I got a 72. QT 7 was a 78 and Readiness (I took before QT 6) was a 70. I covered about 60% of QBank and my average score was 62%.
If you are doing that well on the Kaplan quizzes, you may find that the actual NCLEX is much more difficult than you were anticipating.
Since you're going to get a lot of questions right in the beginning, you'll clearly be above passing level, which will mean a good 3/4 of the test is full of very difficult questions, since the test is adaptive to your level.
Ultimately I passed in 75 questions. My state issued my license # today even though I don't get my Quick Results till tomorrow. But since so much of my test was upper level questions, I felt like Kaplan hardly prepared me at all. I had maybe a handful of "who do you see first" questions, I happened to get no hot spots at all. Only two ordered responses. I had TONS and I mean TONS of SATA's. So Kaplan was great for reviewing content, but the types of questions that were asked of me, I felt that Kaplan did diddly squat to prepare me for.
Then there's all the students in my class who I guess were floating around passing level who said that the NCLEX was a cake walk and they passed it with little preparation. I would have loved to have taken their test! Mine was incredibly challenging!
In the end though, I'm a Registered Nurse officially now so it doesn't matter! Ha! Just wanted to prepare you for what you might be facing on test day though.
DragonflyLady17
145 Posts
Thanks for your input. Yeah I am not used to getting Kaplan scores around the 60s. I feel like I am failing, but I heard they are harder than the NCLEX and I am going to keep doing more questions till exam date! :)
Arusha
1 Post
Hi,
My diagnostic is 61
Q1 69
Q2 53
Q3 56
Q4 59
Q5 57
Q6 59
Readiness 65.56
Q-bank 56 with 75% covered
I still have to take Q7 and finish 25% of the Q-bank.
I am so nervous, I have my exam in 4 days... What do you guys think?
Thank you!!
Riddler929
6 Posts
Hey Arusha,
How did you do?!? I have been watching this blog because we have very very similar scores and I am curious as to how I am holding up thus far!
If you don't mind sharing, of course.
My results on Kaplan are as follows so far:
Diagnostic: 63
Q1: 61
Q2: 55
Q3: 59
Q4: 50
Q5: 57
Still need to take 6&7 and with 39% complete I am at 52. I have not yet taken the readiness test.
Thanks for any insight you can provide me. I do appreciate it.
pinkyfromtheblock
44 Posts
Hi all,
I am taking NCLEX next week and I am more than poopeD!!
QT1: 60
QT2: 55
QT3: 58
QT4: 63
QT5: 54
QT6: 59
QT7: 3 days from now.
Is this an okay score? Or should I even consider rescheduling my test date?