Woo hoo!! I passed NCLEX-RN with 75 questions, and the PVT "trick" worked for me. I had 18 SATA, 1 exhibit and 1 math question. I walked out of the exam feeling a little shell-shocked about some of the questions I got. I got two pharm questions on the same drug...one that I have NEVER heard of before, so I was obsessing over that.
I thought the exam would be spread out over more topics, but I had probably a total of 10 questions one two specific topics...much more than I ever expected. Of course, afterwards, I was telling myself that I should have known more about those two topics, but I know it's impossible to predict what is going to be on the exam.
I took the Kaplan course. Overall, I think it did help. I thought that the Kaplan questions were similarly phrased to the NCLEX questions (more so than Saunders & Hurst). And if anything, the Kaplan course just drilled into your head their decision tree. I didn't follow it but I did think about what I needed first: assessment vs implementation and keep repeating "think ABCs" first.
I read through the Blue Saunders book and read through a Hurst book, but pretty much focused on Kaplan questions.
Good luck to everyone else that has not yet taken the exam. Thinking back on it now, it really was not very difficult but the anxiety that you build up before and during the exam makes you think that.
