After all the complaining, PM's, posts, etc. It was my turn for the Nclex-RN today!
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This is kinda long. But it was my first Nclex-RN attempt, AND LAST!
After the months of reading posts and just lurking around..not to mention making the most random threads about unimportant topics that didn't even show up on my test lol, I finally took my Nclex-RN this morning. Seems like just yesterday I was a student in the student section :). But anyway, I'm gonna be honest about the test. It really was NOT bad at all and I left feeling confident. It shut off at 75 questions after about an hour. I had 19 select all that apply, 1 audio lung sound question, 1 picture question that happened to be a select all that apply. I had about 5 Pharm questions, and they were all drugs that we learned in school.
I had a BUNCH of who would I see first and what's the priority for this or that... And I was saying before the exam, "I hope I don't get any Peds, psych, or OB". Well most of my test was Peds, Psych, and OB...but they weren't bad at all. I did get worried because I didn't get any infection control til the very end and I thought that might not be good. But really, the test wasn't bad if you knew the basics. I was feeling pretty confident as I went..and that kinda had me worried because I read that a lot of people on here who feel good and don't do well. But when it turned off...I was 99.9% sure I did a good job. The way they word the questions, it's NOT tricky. I think that most people are nervous and that's what makes the test seem so bad, so be calm, and it gets much easier. I felt like I was taking just another practice test. Btw...I did do the Pearsonvue trick and got that nice "good pop-up".
My studying went like this:
-I graduated in May, took the rest of May off to relax
-The first week of June, The Hurst was paid for by work so I did that. It's a decent content base, but honestly my test wasn't based on much content. And I felt I already knew 90% of what they taught us during the Hurst review because they simplified it so much. Not saying that others won't have a BUNCH of content based questions on theirs. But the Hurst practice tests were pretty good and it's very simplified...so I DO recommend Hurst if you can get it.
-The famous LaCharity book, I just sat down and did all the questions over a couple of days. My scores ranged from 50% in respiratory all the way to 100% a couple of other chapters. I would say the average score was a 75-80%-ish. It's a good book, very worth getting!
-Someone gave me access to their Q trainers, so I did the first 3 over the course of the LaCharity question days. Scoring an 81% on QT1, 83% on QT2, and 74% on QT3.
-We did take an ATI predictor and it gave me a 98% chance of passing ..and even those who got lower % chance of passing in my class have been passing. I did the ATI practice tests for practice and scored 75-90% on those, so I knew I was good in content.
-And I did have the Saunders book..didn't use it lol. But I did do random quizzes on the CD every now and then. Those questions were pretty good.
-Oh and the Kaplan strategy book, I bought it from Barnes and Noble last Friday to do the questions in the back(and returned today after my test before the refund period was over lol). Those questions were ok too.
All I can say is...don't kill yourself studying. I did the Hurst review, reviewed back over that book for a few hours a day over the course of like 4 days. Did the LaCharity questions over a couple of days, the Kaplan and ATI when I felt like it. I would say I studied maybe 2 weeks total? Most of that time was just doing practice questions in front of the TV(I can't just sit quietly and study).I'll be honest again...I didn't think any one question source resembled the Nclex. Some questions were like ATI, some were like Hurst, some were like LaCharity.
But thank you for all the people who put up with my random PM's and threads to argue about god knows what(sickle cell, precautions, etc lol)