Advice for study material

[Sleepdeprivedstudent]

Hello all. Congrats to all who have graduated. I would like to ask what recent graduates recommend for NCLEX study material. There are so many and I want some opinions before I purchase them. I have been looking at NCLEX Q&A made incredibly easy, Kaplan Review, Saunders, etc...Any advice? How far ahead of the test did you start the NCLEX review books? I am in 3rd semester with two to go. I don't want to wait until the last moment, but maybe I should cover Adult Health 2 first? I am thinking that the mental health and parent child questions in these books could help me with my tests this semester? Is it too soon? Thanks in advance.

[carolinapooh, BSN, RN]

Hi!

When I was in school, I bought the Mosby's review cards (they're in a green box). I would do each section for each class, and then go back and review other sections as i completed classes. Several of our exam questions from different tests in my classes were right from this particular set.

As far as NCLEX material goes, I bought "3500 Bullet Point For NCLEX" (the book is purple) and read it from cover to cover. It's a book of exactly what it says - random bullet points on all sorts of topics. I found it very helpful.

I also bought the huge blue Saunders book and the Princeton Review book. The Saunders CD questions were a lot easier than the Princeton ones, but they were helpful for getting stuff to stick in my head. The Princeton CD has a few errors on it, which screw up the diagnostic scoring that the CD is supposed to be for, but the questions were more like the NCLEX questions. (Basically the CD would score your correct answer as incorrect, but then would give the rationale for YOUR correct answer. Very confusing at first until I figured out what was going on.)

Before the exam, (in fact, just a few days before) I borrowed a book of my friend's (the orange Lippincott one), but I only used the CD and did a couple of the comprehensive exams from it.

Several of my NCLEX questions came from one or more of these sources - not exact quotes, but the same topics. I remember most of them seemed to be from the Princeton review.

I passed in 75 questions.

I graduated this past December and took a week off from reading ANYTHING nursing related, then just studied a bit at a time over the next month and a half. If I only felt like doing an hour, I did an hour. If I was into it and sat for four hours, then I sat for four hours. If I was completely distracted, I didn't bother, but would scan my bullet points book or flip through a small stack of cards with questions, so I didn't feel idle. I tried not to get too wrapped up or worried and just did my best at all of it.

I don't think it's ever too early to think about NCLEX. After all, you're paying to be taught enough to pass it and to practice safely. Just don't get all wrapped up and stressed out about it; you have enough to worry about!

GOOD LUCK!! :balloons::cheers:

[karendc21]

Hi there!

have you heard of JRC? (Juno REview Center) They have an upcoming NCLEX review that will start on May 3 and will run for 8 consecutive Saturdays until June 21st from 9am-5pm..They have an interactive review class which can really boost your confidence and have unlimited computer access..