Passed nclex ! And tips !

Nursing Students NCLEX

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Hello everyone ! To begin , I took my NCLEX on August 15 , 2014 and I did the pearson vue trick one hour later and I got the good pop up !!! 48 hours later , I got the offical confirmation that I passed ! ( I never had time to post this on line ha )

These are the following tips I highly recommended:

1. If you are in nursing school , please read all the material and genuinely try to learn the material. I personally have a strong foundation in Anatomy and Physiology and Pathophysiology, which greatly helped during my review for the NCLEX.

2. If you are in nursing school , please take your clinical experience seriously , I personally have learned so much from my clinical rotations and it helped during the questions.

3. Allow your self amply amount of time to study and review for the NCLEX. If you are the one who gets anxious and nervous when it comes to test taking , DO NOT TELL OTHERS YOUR EXAM DATE ! It will greatly reduce that indirect pressure of passing when friends or family ask.

4. DO NOT SELECT EVERYSINGLE STUDY RESOUCE KNOWN TO MANKIND. I personally use the 8 week "NCSBN" and "Prioritization , Delegation , and Assessment 3rd edition". I completed all of the NCSBN lessons and I completed all of the other book I mentioned above.

5. HUGE TIP * I scheduled my exam at 8:00 A.M. eastern time. I knew that It would take approximately 1 hour to drive down to the testing center. Everyday, I would wake up 6:00 A.M , take a shower , eat breakfast , and by 8:00 A.M. I started to do questions. I ONLY DID 60 QUESTIONS FROM THE NCSBN TEST BANK EVERYDAY. DURING/AFTER MY 60 QUESTIONS I WOULD REVIEW ALL MY RIGHT AND WRONG AND UNDERSTAND WHY I GOT THE QUESTIONS RIGHT OR WRONG. After, my 60 questions I simply spent the rest of the day going over the lessons in NCSBN and supplemented the other book I mentioned before. For example , if I did a lesson on Cardiac , I would go to the other book and do all the cardiac questions.

6. HUGE TIP * PLEASE DO ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ON THE COMPUTER. DO NOT DO THE QUESTIONS IN THE TEXT BOOK. To begin, NCSBN is an online resource and the other book I mentioned above provided a code, which allowed me to take the questions on the computer. ONE MAY ASK WHY ? By, waking up 6:00 A.M. and taking all the questions online , I am simulating the real LIFE NCLEX.

7. ARRIVE AT THE TESTING CENTER 15-30 MINUTES AHEAD OF TIME AND BRING BRAIN FOOD ( WATER , SNACKS , CANDY.) DO NOT FORGET IDENTIFICATION.

8. During the exam , after every question close your eyes and take a deep breath !!! Read each question twice and take your breaks it helps !!!

9. Do not PANIC IF YOUR EXAM DOES NOT END IN 75 QUESTIONS , KEEP GOING , IT MEANS YOUR DOING SOMETHING RIGHT TO BE STILL TAKING THE EXAM.

10. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU FUTURE NURSES.

Hello Chanylove , Thank you so much :D

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Congrats, and thanks for the advice on my thread :)

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Hello Nick2You , Thank alot and your welcome !!! Hope everything works out ! Best of luck :D

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I did the same thing as you for my 3rd attempt. I stuck with NCSBN material for a little, then it became too much so I switched to only the questions. After I finished that I went to PDA book and did almost every chapter except 2 in the book scores ranging from 48-77. I just took my boards again yesterday and failed with 265. I don't understand this is the third time I have taken it, all tests I have been near passing in all categories (not sure for this last one). But What am I doing wrong?? I also work 40 hrs....and Im attached to my phone which I know has to stop because I do not concentrate. But I don't know how to pass this damn test. I am running out of options.

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Hello rnchick2013, To begin, I understand you are upset and you seem very overwhelmed. I am sure your friends or family may have told you to take a break, and it must be hard to hear that constantly, however, I would recommend you you take a couple of days to yourself =) Speaking from personally experience, I would never be able to focus, if I felt overwhelmed and I took a day or two and my batteries were recharged !!! I may clear up a little confusion, I completed all of NCSBN , I took copious notes on NCSBN, I did all the questions on NCSBN, and supplemented the PDA book. First of all, I am glad you identified that the phone is one of the issues, and personally, I like to study for 45 minutes and I take 15 minute break =) Therefore, you allow your brain to relax and you can text, watch tv, or simply relax for that 15 minutes !!! Next, I understand you have to work and provide food on the table, but, the 40 hours may be draining you mentally and physically by the time you begin to study ! To answer your question, I personally don't think you have a problem with the content. I say that because if you reached all the way up to 265 questions, you knew the content, you were still fighting, but, you have not approached the question correctly. In simpler words, your approach and understanding of the question may have thrown you off ! For example, I tried out "Saunders" and I found I was getting 100's on all the question, and that was because they were simply content questions. When I started NCSBN, my scores went from a 30 to 90. Similarly, my scores for PDA went from 50 - 90. If you try and focus on what the question is asking, learn the tricks of answering the question, and understand why you got the question wrong, that will truly help you =)

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