Am I studying enough?

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Oct 17, 2015

Well...you've given yourself only two weeks to prepare after you failed your first attempt? It's not much time even if you were doing a concerted effort with a strong study plan....and it doesn't appear that is what you are doing.

Your scores aren't great...and you don't feel confident in your approach. How is what you're doing different than what you did the first time that would ensure success? Honestly....maybe rescheduling for a time after you've thought this through would be better? You aren't at risk for overwhelming yourself based on what you wrote...UNDERwhelming might be more like it.

I'd hate to see you waste money and have to handle another failure if you don't need to. Reschedule!

_zoubisoubisou_ · Oct 17, 2015

If you re-read my post, I have been studying since I last failed. So in total I will have studied for over a month. I'm just wondering if this approach, with my month, is enough. Of course I don't feel confident...I failed the first time.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Oct 17, 2015

If you re-read my post, I have been studying since I last failed. So in total I will have studied for over a month. I'm just wondering if this approach, with my month, is enough. Of course I don't feel confident...I failed the first time.

Ok, re-read the post, didn't see anything saying you'd been studying since you failed, but that isn't important, really. A month, if you are asking...and you ARE asking....doesn't seem to be enough time based on what you're writing.

Did you base your study plan on the CPR you received after your test? The CPR is designed to help you form a good plan of study, based on what you had trouble with on the last exam. Do you think it helped?

Don't let your failure the first time shake your confidence overall, or going forward. It is what it is....people pass on the second time! Only thing that concerns me, really, is that you don't seem to have put in place a strong studying system, and your practice scores aren't reflecting a readiness to test. Am I understanding this ok?

LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN · Oct 17, 2015

What did the performance review state? What are your below and near passing subjects?

The issue may not necessarily the source of the review, but how one approaches the NCLEX itself: understanding the four concepts of becoming a competent, entry-level nurse:

1. Safe, effective care;

2.Health promotion;

3.Physiological Integrity;

4.Psychosocial integrity

Will determine WHAT the question is asking you; the question may be Respiratory related-but is it a Health Promotion or a Safety, or a Physiological or a Psychosocial one? Would you know the difference and choose the BEST answer?

Once one understands the concepts of NCLEX, they can do so successfully.

Don't look at content; you know most of the material because you passed nursing school; begin to do questions related to each concept; review all questions and rationales; ANY rationale you struggle with, THEN review content. Lather, rinse, repeat.

When practicing the questions, prepare the questions like a mock NCLEX exam, review the minimum and then work up to the maximum for endurance purposes.

After looking at your report, focus on the weakness and review questions and rationales; make mock NCLEX tests and start with the minimum and gradually until the maximum; you have to have an endurance in answering application questions.

After each "exam", make sure you are reviewing the rationales; any rationales you are not clear on THEN

look up the content.

Make sure you have a grasp on understanding the martial as well as the ability to confidently answer the questions; perhaps you can push back your date, get a grasp on what was near and below passing and ensure your near passing stays intact before you take the exam again.

Best wishes.

juvy123 · Oct 18, 2015

I took my NCLEX RN on Oct 15, 2015 just for 2 weeks, by using NCLEX u World and purchased 3 weeks NCSBN for the content, and Good news for the 4th time I got the Unofficial result and I passed.

Just be calm and pray....

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Oct 18, 2015

Just be calm and pray....

....and STUDY :)

senvang2000 · Oct 19, 2015

I failed with hurst and kaplan, but passed with Uworld. Uworld has very difficult level question and allow you to think at a higher level. It helps to study with someone else to help you think differently. Also, I used to think having a lot of SATA question means you're doing good. Not with my case this time as I passed. I passed with 165 questions and had only 10 SATA. Keep at it and don't give up.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Oct 20, 2015

I failed with hurst and kaplan, but passed with Uworld. Uworld has very difficult level question and allow you to think at a higher level. It helps to study with someone else to help you think differently. Also, I used to think having a lot of SATA question means you're doing good. Not with my case this time as I passed. I passed with 165 questions and had only 10 SATA. Keep at it and don't give up.

UWorld may have been the change you needed in order to pass....or, it could be just that it was the third time taking it, so it went better for you.

SATA questions are merely an alternative format of questioning; having them or not having them is indicative of nothing. It's a myth that seeing lots of SATA on your exam means you are doing well. All it means is you got a lot of SATA!

Congrats :)

mmurse4 · Oct 28, 2015

UWorld was by far the best tool I used to pass the NCLEX. Everything about it is great from it looking exactly like the NCLEX to having better rationales than any other qbank out there.