Best NCLEX RN review? Considering Harder to pass

there's just one trick in passing the nclex-rn, "practice". practice as many questions as you can exhaust in one sitting, take it one day at a time. i could say that you can even forget about reading the books, such as studying the body systems, normal values, and so on.....those days are over and you're already tested for it that's why you even graduated in the first place. now since your asking for a good review material i'll give you two of which that really helped me passed:

1. ncsbn's learningext.com - online course, it comes w/ a two fold approach: review of the body systems and sample questions/excercises, again, you wanna spend much of your time doing the questions, 'coz it has the type of questions/questioning styles closest to the actual exam - they made the exam for cryin out loud

2. comprehensive review for nclex-rn (reviews & rationales) by mary ann hogan, pearson/prentice hall publishing - this is a "4-inch thick" book but don't get intimidated by it, just go for the 1,000 plus questions in it then the 4,000 plus questions in the cd (a total of 5,000 plus questions)

*now, here's to know if you're ready for the nclex-rn:

-you should've practiced for at least 4,000 questions, the more the better.....

- you must get a consistent rating of 65% up in every attempt, no matter how many items you have in each practice test

- i suggest that if you have time, you may wanna retake the diagnostic exam (i'm speaking of ncsbn's review course) which was asked for you to do in the first phase of the review course, you should have a rating of 75% up, now that you already took it for the second time

the bottom line is, if you wanna be a registered nurse, think like one. you wanna get in the heads of the test makers, know how they ask questions, know their way of answering and when you do, you'll see that whenever you're faced with a question, easy or difficult, your mind just automatically decodes the answer, but of course, then again, you have to "practice".

good luck!

Saunders and NCLEX 4000 are all you need to pass..Goodluck

Thank you for helping me. I want to pass this time.

there's just one trick in passing the nclex-rn, "practice". practice as many questions as you can exhaust in one sitting, take it one day at a time. i could say that you can even forget about reading the books, such as studying the body systems, normal values, and so on.....those days are over and you're already tested for it that's why you even graduated in the first place. now since your asking for a good review material i'll give you two of which that really helped me passed:

1. ncsbn's learningext.com - online course, it comes w/ a two fold approach: review of the body systems and sample questions/excercises, again, you wanna spend much of your time doing the questions, 'coz it has the type of questions/questioning styles closest to the actual exam - they made the exam for cryin out loud

2. comprehensive review for nclex-rn (reviews & rationales) by mary ann hogan, pearson/prentice hall publishing - this is a "4-inch thick" book but don't get intimidated by it, just go for the 1,000 plus questions in it then the 4,000 plus questions in the cd (a total of 5,000 plus questions)

*now, here's to know if you're ready for the nclex-rn:

-you should've practiced for at least 4,000 questions, the more the better.....

- you must get a consistent rating of 65% up in every attempt, no matter how many items you have in each practice test

- i suggest that if you have time, you may wanna retake the diagnostic exam (i'm speaking of ncsbn's review course) which was asked for you to do in the first phase of the review course, you should have a rating of 75% up, now that you already took it for the second time

the bottom line is, if you wanna be a registered nurse, think like one. you wanna get in the heads of the test makers, know how they ask questions, know their way of answering and when you do, you'll see that whenever you're faced with a question, easy or difficult, your mind just automatically decodes the answer, but of course, then again, you have to "practice".

good luck!

hi thanks for advice, i would like to try the ncsbn, i had taken the test 3 times and it makes me frustrating because everythings on my hands now...ive been depressed for over month but now im back to review again..

the sounders review is an online or a booktest?

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