Cramming for NCLEX??

Thanks for the feedback. I reviewed the 3rd edition of Saunders too. I am too close to the date to purchase the 4th edition. What did you do about the alternate and SATA questions?

How did you go over those, the Q bank?

Thanks.

No Kaplan did not work for me with the SATA and alternative questions. Use this book for practice: It's like $19

NCLEX-RN® 250 New-Format Questions: Preparing for the Revised NCLEX-RN® (Nursing Review Practice)

• ISBN-10: 1582554730
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1582554730

Did you at all feel good about using the 3rd edition of Saunders, now that you have taken the exam?

That's the one I have right now.

I actually liked that book and cd-rom better than the online Kaplan questions. I feel as though the only thing that Kaplan helped me with was how to break down the question to see what was actually being asked

And I never recommend making up cards either.

What one needs to function on is what the exam is looking for in an answer. Test taking strategies are not going to help with that at all.

Guess that is why I only use my program. Best of luck on your exam.

Making flash cards not only waste time that you could have used to answer questions, but is also another form of memorization, which is a bad thing to do. Memorizing questions will not benefit you on the NCLEX-RN.

Also, make sure that you don't jump for the first answer you see because majority of the time most of the answers are correct, but you have to select the most important answer. If you narrow it down to two answers reread the question and the two answers and select the best one.

Suzanne,

I know cramming is not going to help...but I feel that Kaplan and all those reviews are making us do this by having us read a bunch of content in their books. They told me to write a bunch of index cards with and to me that sounds like cramming. I don't know how else to study after reading the kaplan 600 page book, watching videos and doing the questions for 6 weeks now. I'm just stuck and like I said I feel like I'm just cramming stuff into my brain. I have a week left so I will just review meds.

My scores have improved so maybe it has to do with learning test taking strategies. What do you think?

Clara

To be honest with you. I have not read that enormous blue Kaplan book since the second class day that we learned the "Kaplan tree" thingy and I have not watched any of the videos. Since graduation all I have done was answer question after question. Went through three review books (1 of the 3 includes the review book we used in school), 1cd-rom, and the Kaplan online questions.

Don't stress yourself out and over do it. Just answer questions. From those questions and rationales you will learn things that you never knew before.