Advice on when to start NCSBN review

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Specializes in Emergency.

I have been practicing NCLEX style questions since beginning nursing school. I feel like this helped me so much in preparing for exams in class. I have read great things about the NCSBN review and I want to use it as my final prep for the NCLEX. I want to take my test as soon after graduation as possible. I will be graduating in August and would like to use the 8 week review during my last session. Do you guys think this would be a good idea? Or should I wait until the last week of my class and do the 3 week review? Any info if helpful! Hopefully I am making sense :shy:

Thank you!

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I used the three week course. I honestly do not feel you will need (or should you wait) 8 weeks after graduating to take the test. If you can, schedule sooner than that! The three week course helped me feel prepared and it was plenty. I do not feel any longer of a course would have been more beneficial to me. I passed in 75 with using the 3 week course and the Lacharity book. I used it exactly 3 weeks before my test date and completed all the questions up until the day before my test. Hope this helps.

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I took NSCBN and Kaplan, NCSBN was useless. Everything is bullet pointed, not enough for content if you ask me. The questions had errors and were nothing like what I encountered on the NCLEX. Now Kaplan was great for test taking strategies (their questions were very good on preparing me for the NCLEX). I hear Hurst is a great content review course from many of my class mates.

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Specializes in Oncology.

I used 3-week ncbsn. And Lacharity Prioritizing book. And love both resources

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Specializes in Emergency.

Thank you for your comments everyone! I have access to Hurst and I love it! And my school does a live Hurst review at the end of the program. I just heard the NCSBN was good for NCLEX questions. I was planning on doing the NCSBN in conjunction with my last class so I could be ready for NCLEX right when I am done. I would love to test within one month. Do you think that using the Hurst and ATI programs is enough?

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I just failed on July 1 in 99 questions. I have not received any candidate performance report yet.

Let me start by saying, I went to an accelerated nursing program for paramedics and firefighters that was by no means adequate. This was the only school that had a firefighter friendly nursing schedule.

Here's what I did, and what I liked.

☀️HURST live review in classroom TWICE!

Drove three hours to sit through it the second time.

☀️HURST ONLINE REVIEW-listen to all of the videos twice.

☀️ NCSBN three week course

Questions were helpful, but didn't like the set up of it, but it is only 50 bucks.

☀️ATI-my school paid for it, and I sat through two of the three days, online questions are right on, had technical issues while setting it up,overall good

☀️ALL SAUNDERS BOOK

☀️ simple nursing videos-listen to them in my car almost everywhere I drove to.

☀️HURST Q-review

In closing, I did not think the test was even as hard as our exit HESI.

The amount of time that we spent in the classroom could not possibly have given us enough exposure to the nursing material. That being said, I will take it as soon as possible after my 45 day wait, and I will take Kaplan as well, and the LACHARITY

I am almost halfway done with the Lacharity book, and it is wonderful, questions are right on.

I hope this helps,adam

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