Am I ready? I desperately need a focus.

[pharmhurts]

I am taking the NCLEX-RN in less than 3 days! I am totally in the middle of a freak out because I am feeling like I am not any further along in my studying than I was weeks ago (even tho I have been studying on and off for over a month, plus hardcore (all day) studying for the past week and a half)! I feel like I have accomplished nothing and now I am down to the last few days, and I am trying to figure out what to focus on! Is it just because I know as much as I could possibly know, and that is why I feel like I am not getting any further?

I really struggle with Pharm and it is making me very very anxious. I took the Kaplan and have done a few of the tests but I don't think it is my best study method.

BECAUSE when I took the ATI comprehensive for my school, the first time I failed, and I did most of my studying through the practice tests on the website. To prepare for my second attempt, I decided that I was just going to focus on refreshing my content knowledge. And I PASSED! So that makes me think that the practice question studying method isn't as effective for me.

So, I made the executive decision yesterday, to just focus on my kaplan content review book from now on.

Now I am starting to second guess myself! AHH!

Is there anyone out there who, like me, also benefits most from just studying content? Did you make the right decision to stick with that studying plan? (because practice questions would be so much easier). Do others still suggest focusing on practice questions? Did you find the kaplan content review book to be enough? Any tricks you have for pharm? I just cannot get the hang of them, there are too many!! there are several classes i DO have down. but the rest is just discouraging.

Also, is there anyone on here that really weak at true/false questions like me and are terrified for the select all that apply questions? Is there anyone who has been weak at those in the past and have discovered a really great way to get through them?

I am way over-analyzing and freaking myself out.

Is there anyone who is just like me, and passed, and willing to share how i should proceed?

Even if I sound like a crazy person, it does make me feel better that I have shared this!

So thanks!

[sankewal]

Hi

I think its normal to freak out. I failed my nclex couple of months ago and the biggest reason behind my failure was poor content knowledge. there are students out there who just do questions and pass nclex and I think they have good content knowledge thats why they score good with questions, otherwise you end up doing too many wrong questions. I focused on saunders for content review and going through it page by page and have almost finished the book. I also practice questions just to get into that mode but I started off with reviewing the core content.

kaplan has good eliminating strategies, so I think its good one. As long as we have strong content knowledge and use elimination process, we can pass nclex. I also find pharma hard, but I try to memorize the common adverse effects and focus on other imp areas...

I hope it helps...all the best

[strawberryluv, BSN, RN]

I'm taking it soon too. I'm freaking out. I used Hurst Review and it helped me a lot with content knowledge and figuring out the "why" of the disease or condition. I answered over 8000 questions. I used Saunders for looking stuff up. I used Nclex 4000, nclex mastery app, Kaplan strategies book to answer questions. I did all the Q review exams averaged 65 to 74%. On Kaplan Trainer 6 and 7 I made high 60s. I think I'm ready but I'm still scared for nclex.