NCLEX=30% Maternity/Peds?

Nursing Students NCLEX

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Specializes in Family Medicine.

Today, we took this test that is suppose to determine our chances of passing the NCLEX.

Unfortunately, I did not do well on this test and I left school feeling very down. After I stopped moping around, I took a long look at the answer key to the test and it turns out that over 50% of the questions I answered wrong were related to maternity and pediatrics. Over 30% (I actually calculated this) of the test questions were related to maternity and pediatrics, so, this was a big chunk of questions answered wrong.

I had maternity (for four weeks) during the Fall semester of 2009 and I had pediatrics during that same semester (also for four weeks). For the Spring 2010 semester and this semester (Fall 2010), I've been studying adult health issues in med/surg. Needless to say, I'm not that knowledgeable on pregnant people, infants, and kiddies at this time.

SO, here is my question for the allnurses world:

From your own experience or from what you've heard, do maternity and pediatric questions make up a large portion of the NCLEX?

I'm trying to gauge how serious I should take these test results.

Thank you in advance for your feedback! :)

noyesno

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I was told that maternity isn't a lot on nclex and that most peds questions relate to developmental staged of development. Now...having said that I would still make sure you feel comfortable with all areas because as we have seen time and time again, nclex is different for everyone, and while one person may not get any maternity questions, another test taker could get a lot. It's best to be prepared for anything and go in with confindence in your knowledge. You dont want to be that one person that ends up getting a ton of questions on the one topic you are least comfortable with and fail. Hope this helps :)

There is no way to predict the questions on the NCLEX. Based on that fact, one should be prepared for all areas.

Specializes in Family Medicine.

Sounds like I'll be studying maternity and pediatrics this December when I graduate...

Thanks for you replies.

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

The way the NCLEX is designed there is no telling what questions you will get, some got little of no SATA (select all that apply) and others received lots of SATA same goes with the different categories

Specializes in Family Medicine.
The way the NCLEX is designed there is no telling what questions you will get, some got little of no SATA (select all that apply) and others received lots of SATA same goes with the different categories

So, prepare for everything? YIKES!

I do not enjoy learning about maternity!

Thanks for you reply! :)

Specializes in Family Medicine.

So, I guess I read the test results wrong and actually didn't do that poorly.

The percentage score told us, of the people who passed the NCLEX, you did better than this percentage of those people.

I feel a little better.

I still will study maternity and pediatrics and I do appreciate everyone's responses! :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My test as from what I could recall was indeed 20-30% maternity. It was the EASIEST section to study for. The questions did not deviate into something overtly tricky. What does so so test do? What does it mean? It's either you know what it means or you didn't. All the questions I could immediately recall from reading it a week ago before the test. The Saunders book and the sections covering maternity does an excellent job of covering everything you need. Good luck.

Specializes in Family Medicine.
My test as from what I could recall was indeed 20-30% maternity. It was the EASIEST section to study for. The questions did not deviate into something overtly tricky. What does so so test do? What does it mean? It's either you know what it means or you didn't. All the questions I could immediately recall from reading it a week ago before the test. The Saunders book and the sections covering maternity does an excellent job of covering everything you need. Good luck.

OOO, I love the Saunders book. I haven't gotten to the maternity section yet but will get to it this December. I'm glad to hear there aren't a lot of trick questions for this subject matter.

Thanks for you reply and the luck! :)

Specializes in Wound Care, LTC, Sub-Acute, Vents.

from your own experience or from what you've heard, do maternity and pediatric questions make up a large portion of the nclex?

ob is my weakest also and i was afraid i was going to get tons of ob because the computer will know it is my weakest but thank god i only got one ob on my nclex. so i was happy. :D

my nclex had ALOT of maternity and PEDs questions...which sucked because we spend a total of four weeks total in this area......i did pass the nclex....had infection control, one math question, and a hell of alot of peds and maternity. three sata.....one nutrition....and four prioritizations

Specializes in Family Medicine.
my nclex had ALOT of maternity and PEDs questions...which sucked because we spend a total of four weeks total in this area......i did pass the nclex....had infection control, one math question, and a hell of alot of peds and maternity. three sata.....one nutrition....and four prioritizations

Congrats on passing!

Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to study maternity and peds today. :( No me gusta...

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