Advice to NCLEX takers -- coming from someone who did bad in nursing school

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So I took my NCLEX today!

A little background. I flunked out of nursing school once...got B's all throughout nursing school...failed the HESI twice. Really never devoted myself to nursing, went out too much. But I graduated the beginning of May and started studying. Did about 200 questions out of Saunders every day for about 3 weeks. Then used Kaplan strategies book and PDA by LaCharity. So I studied every weekday (took a couple days off here and there). The week before the test, I got really bad test anxiety, and wasn't able to study hardly at all! Mostly studied to reinforce everything. The day before the test I reviewed this study guide and lab values. I took it this morning and had 140ish questions. I was keeping tally of the SATA until it went past 75 (had 18 SATA before it passed 75) then had like 4 or 5 after that. Went home and tried the PVT trick 92384 times and got the good pop up!

So my advice to those who are taking the exam. Study this study guide and PDA. And do questions every day. Majority of my test was prioritizing patients and lots of infections control and meds. I didn't study hardly at all for meds, and I'm glad I didn't because I would have not been able to recognize them (which is why I probably did bad in nursing school haha). Say a prayer before you take it if you start and whenever you aren't able to focus! Good luck to everyone who takes it!

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Congrats

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Congratulations ))) how I can ask prayers to pray for me.Thank U

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So I took my NCLEX today!

A little background. I flunked out of nursing school once...got B's all throughout nursing school...failed the HESI twice. Really never devoted myself to nursing, went out too much. But I graduated the beginning of May and started studying. Did about 200 questions out of Saunders every day for about 3 weeks. Then used Kaplan strategies book and PDA by LaCharity. So I studied every weekday (took a couple days off here and there). The week before the test, I got really bad test anxiety, and wasn't able to study hardly at all! Mostly studied to reinforce everything. The day before the test I reviewed this study guide and lab values. I took it this morning and had 140ish questions. I was keeping tally of the SATA until it went past 75 (had 18 SATA before it passed 75) then had like 4 or 5 after that. Went home and tried the PVT trick 92384 times and got the good pop up!

So my advice to those who are taking the exam. Study this study guide and PDA. And do questions every day. Majority of my test was prioritizing patients and lots of infections control and meds. I didn't study hardly at all for meds, and I'm glad I didn't because I would have not been able to recognize them (which is why I probably did bad in nursing school haha). Say a prayer before you take it if you start and whenever you aren't able to focus! Good luck to everyone who takes it!

Yay! Congrats!

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Congrats!

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Congratulations

How did you prepare for pharma>? any tips would be great..:)

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I actually didn't prepare for pharm hardly at all. My classes right before I graduated really engrained cardiac meds into my brain, so that's all I really knew. I got a good amount of pharm, and guessed on almost all of them. I know one or two I got right. But the drugs I got were something i've never even heard of and couldn't guess them using their ending: -lol -pril -vir etc. Good luck guys!! You can do it!!

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I'm happy for you!

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Specializes in Peds.

But its a good review to use and its all correct right?

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Specializes in Med-Surg/urology.
But its a good review to use and its all correct right?

I liked it ::shrug:: I used it, along with a bunch of other study materials while preparing for the NCLEX-PN. Passed on my first try with 85 q's. The only thing was that the guide had a lot of misspellings, but other than that I really thought it was a good guide.

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congratulations to you jkwon

Ill pray for you zazak. :)

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