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My NCLEX is scheduled for Monday 6/27. I have used multiple review materials:

1. Lippincott: I exhausted the book and the CD

2. ATI: School gave us access to ATI for free, exhausted it with between 72-88% on all the practice exams. Hard questions.

3. Exit HESI: Did 2000 HESI review questions and passed exit HESI

4. Davis's 2010 Test Plan: Almost done with all the book questions, not yet on the CD's questions yet

5. NCLEX Review Class: Took an 8-day content & test strategy review course that my school swears by to maintain their 100% pass rate.

5. Kaplan's blue & white book. I am on this one now. From what I have read on this site, Kaplan's questions are supposed to be most like the NCLEX but harder? Because these questions seem kind of dumbed-down. Should I continue my focus on Kaplan (I will be using Davis, the materials from the review class at the same time)? Should I go back and focus on my HESI notes? Is NCLEX more like HESI or more like Kaplan's questions? These easy questions are making me nervous, that I will be too used to easy ones and then have a hard time on NCLEX.

Any advice?

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Well, it looks to me as if you have a pretty hefty study plan! I would encourage you to continually review your weaker areas and do as many questions as possible. Kaplan questions were somewhat of a joke, in my opinion. I guess I'm indifferent about their program, as I believe they scare you into buying their program with the premise that "you need them to pass NCLEX the first time". It's not really true...if you do multiple questions from different sources and had adequate preparation during nursing school, you will do just fine on NCLEX. Best of luck to you.

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Good luck.

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I did fine in Nursing school. I got a prize for having a 4.0 GPA :D

I don't have any weak areas that stand out, I am "okay" with all the material but sometimes when a question seems really strange, I get mixed up and pick the wrong answer. Or I don't pick all the right answers in a SATA.

And I only paid $29.99 for the Kaplan book, not hundreds for the actual class thank goodness. My school requires that we take a different course anyway. I think then that I will continue to use Kaplan but maybe less, and put more focus into the Davis 2010 and the review materials from the course, just so I have a wide variety.

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Kaplan questions are quite comparable to NCLEX questions. So I recommend it. You can Google "NCLEX question trainers" and you'll find free Kaplan questions (totally ran into it online and it's awesome).

And WHAT... you have a 4.0 GPA. You don't have to worry about the NCLEX. lol.

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You sound ready!

Good luck!

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