What's $500 dollar NCLEX RN question?

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  1. How much did you or will you spend to pass the NCLEX-RN?

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      I'm a baller..I spent or will spend $500 or more and do whatever finances it takes for the RN review
    • 2
      I got a budget...$500 is my cut off point for any review
    • 17
      I'm conservative...I plan on or already spent $300-$500 on a RN review
    • 15
      I poor but willing to sacrifice or have sacrificed $100-$300 dollars on the RN review
    • 27
      I'm cheap and will use or used my existing resources from nursing school and 1 or 2 review textbooks from the used bookstore.

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Hey there,

Well after being bombarded by who is better and who is worse or horrible I decided on a plan for my studies toward the NCLEX so I hope this will be to my benefit. So what's the $500 dollar question? Well it's really simple...Who did you choose for the review of NCLEX RN and how much did that cost you?

We all know the big guns Kaplan charge 500 big bucks..ok well $499 for the detail review with the q bank. I'm opting for NCSBN RN review with an 8 week review at $100. I am also using the NSNA Delmar review at a cheap $62 bucks and the purpose of this is they have CAT logic implementation as well as a lot of knowledge based questions, because I know content is my weak point. Will being cheap lead to my ultimate demise? I guess we will find out in the months to come but I've seen people pass and fail with all sorts of reviews, and spending way more than $500 to learn stuff they already learned from nursing school. I even found this youtube video that claims they found the "secret to passing the NCLEX RN" and of course you click on the link to find out the secrets then they ask for you credit card number.

That's all the NCLEX reviews really come down to...taking your credit card number and seeing how much money they could get by banking on the fears of nervous students...fears that failing is not an option and if you don't pay up, you will fail.

Well I beg to defer. there is no secret. When it comes down to it people who use reviews seldom take full advantage of all its resourses, almost never complete all of the modules and test questions and they are surprised they fail. Then how do you explain the people who use 1 single textbook like, only the Saunders, did no reviews and they passed with 75 questions?

I say people should stop being fearful, stop being wishy washy with your studies and get down to the business of studying. Do that and you will pass you NCLEX no doubth.

I will keep a detail record of my study habits and repost my progress. Good luck to everyone about to take the NCLEX RN.

Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

I took the NCLEX-RN in June 2010. Call me na`ive but I never heard of these review courses until a year or so after the NCLEX. I purchased the Kaplan Strategies, Practices, & Review book. I read it from cover to cover twice and then took two of the three full-length practice exams in the back. NCLEX exam began at 0800 and by 0910, I was already back on the interstate heading home....75 questions...passed.:)

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

I used the NCSBN three week course, as well as several sources for different questions in order to cover any possible question that could come up:

LaCharity

PharmPhlash cards for general review of medications (got some good pharm questions and was able to narrow down obscure meds successfully)

Kaplan book (because the Kaplan course was mortgage money and I prefer to have a roof over my head than be a homeless nurse, lol ;) )

ExamCRAM (enjoyed the quick information related to lab values and safety questions, Lippincott apps (for on the go) and Saunders (divides questions up per the four domains if being a competent nurse, so If ones weakness is Safe, Effective Care, Health Promotion, Physical or Psychological integrity, one can zero in on the information and review rationales and the dug further if they didn't understand.

I reviewed recommended review books during my program during the year as well.

The total was MUCH cheaper and it got me the minimum questions to pass; I think the NCSBN had questions very similar to the NCLEX, and I swear I saw a question similar to my review; I came out of my exam relaxed.

For my PN, just two test books-Saunders and Mosby-lots

of questions; and the comprehensive

CD; passed with the minimum as

well. :yes:

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