by pinky11889

I take the NCLEX on 8/3. I, like everyone else, have been preparing for a LONG time. I took the Kaplan review class, and I'm unsure if it was helpful.... my scores seem so low! I have gotten these scores on the Question Trainer Test:

Test 1 - 52
Test 2 - 60
Test 3 - 48
Test 4 - 58
Test 5 - 54

I still need to take the other two. My Q-bank score (with half of the questions done) is a 60%.

These scores seem too low that its scaring me. Did others score the same and pass? Should i reschedule? I don't know what more to study or do. Ugh

My readiness exam was a 64%. I'm so confused as to what to do... please help!

Re: Kaplan Question Trainer Test scores

You are doing fine!

I took Kaplan and took my boards today. I got 75 questions. According to the "trick", I passed. I am awaiting my quick results to make it official.

I got 62% on QT 6 and 50% on QT 7. I completed all of my Q bank and the overall average was 57%. I got anywhere from 34-74%.

On the readiness test, I got 62% with 15 questions to go. Ran out of time.

Kaplan wants you to get atleast a 60% on QT 6 & 7 because those two tests are very similar to NCLEX.

BTW, I found Kaplan to be harder than NCLEX. I felt it prepared me well because I got a couple of questions on NCLEX that was very similiar to what I've gotten on Kaplan.

Good luck!

Re: Kaplan Question Trainer Test scores

I know it is hard not to focus on your scores, but it is more important to review the areas you are weak and review content. What I did, I reviewed the content from the Kaplan workbook for one week after doing questions. After I did that, my scores went up. Do the content with the online videos along with the workbook. Another thing you can do, go over all the rationales and write down the ones you got wrong. I know it takes time, but it will help you in the long run. Keep doing questions.....and find out your weaknesses and keep doing questions in those areas. Good luck..

Re: Kaplan Question Trainer Test scores

my kaplan scores were as follows....
1. 54
2. 60
3. 50 the above 3 were taken the week i had the review..
4. 56 this was after the review...a few days later
5. 60
6. 71 i think i might have posted somewhere i got a 73, but it was a 71..looking at the scores right now...sorry...
7. 64...

As for the qbank, i don't know what my average was because i took every test 50 at a time...at the beginning though, i would stop taking them and then realize later that i quit the test rather than suspended it...I got mostly in the mid 60's though, sometimes higher sometimes lower.....

This was my plan....my school used kaplan all along..instead of hesi, or ati....

So after having my readiness test only be a 59% i was kind of freaking out...so the week after my kaplan review, i started using all of the content test that i had available for each section i had in school....ob, peds, psych, oncology, neuro, and so on.....each section i completed each test which were 30 questions a piece...whatever i missed i would right a brief fact on a sheet of paper about that topic, then move on to the next test...some areas had up to 3 test, some only 1....so anyways, then i took kaplan trainer 5...got a 60....so then i started on the qbank...I only used unused questions only, and did 50 at a time, after each 50 i would review and make a fact sheet, and so on...Then I had a sylvia rayfield incredibly easy review that my employer provided, this actually helped with a bit of content review, plus questions...We got a book and a practice question book...so from that point on i started alternating between kaplan question banks and the incredibly easy book.....same thing with those questions i would review and make a fact sheet....Then when it was 2 weeks before boards...I took Question trainer 6, and I got a 71%....i felt great....so then i kept on going about studying, then i ran out of question bank questions, so then i started on my incorrect ones only....again 50 at a time, i was scoring really high, like high 80's and 90's, so this kind of confirmed that my review method was indeed working...so i reviewed and made another fact sheet...The week before boards i finished up all my questions from the incredibly easy book, and my question trainer 7 which i scored a 64 on...By the way don't take a 265 question test at 10:30 at night..I didn't finish until 2:30 in the morning and i missed a ton at the end especially in the last 20 or so questions....Anyhow thats what i did....

Took Nclex yesterday at 8am.....75?'s, 10 SATA, 10 MEDs, no maternity, no math, tons and tons of infection, delegation, and priority...very little peds and psych...

Good luck to you...I tried the trick and according to it i passed, just waiting to see if the trick is true.......hopefully the board will post the results tomorrow...

Re: Kaplan Question Trainer Test scores

Yeah I'm going to start writing the things I've missed down... that seems like a good idea. I also own the NCLEX made incredibly easy book. I find those questions to be so much easier than Kaplan (maybe thats why they call the book "incredibly easy"). Is Kaplan more similar to the real test?

Thanks for the advice everyone.... let me know your results!

Re: Kaplan Question Trainer Test scores

Yes, kaplan is similar, atleast in my opinion....The incredibly easy book, is actually different then what i had originally thought....check out this site, this is the review i went to and recieved the books from...they are different then the NCLEX RN made incredibly easy books...i swear!!! And they were very helpful questions, infact some of the questions were word for word the same as kaplan.....good luck to you