My classmate took Nclex yesterday and totally felt like he studied the wrong stuff. FOr example, he spent soooo much time studying OB and Psych and did not get ONE SINGLE question on either topic.
He told me I should take one week, study, and then just take it. He said no amt of preparation can prepare you for the questions he got. He said, when you think about it - - they are testing your *minimum competency* and you can pass with only 75 questions! That means the vast majority of what you study will never even be there. Also, he's not saying he thinks he failed, he just said he thinks he studied ooodles of stuff that has like a 1% chance of actually showing up on test. He felt the questions were more "general" with a tendency towards prioritizing them and not so much specific disease process type questions.
Specializes in Hospice. Worked ER, Med-Surg, ICU & ALF-Dementia.
ive also taken my exam about 2 days ago, and 85% of the things i reviewed came up. abt a month before i took the exam, i came upon a website while i was looking up for a review center. they put up the specific topics they would include in the review. i decided to use it and do a self review using my MS book. for the other topics, like psych, ob, pedia & all others, i used the review cds by saunders and lippincott. going back, the questions do come off straight from the book. the problem is there are alot of things to study so some of these, i totally forgot when i was taking the exam. but i remember writing them down. it just really got confusing. for the drug questions, i think i got 5-6 questions, 2 of which i never heard of.
about your technique on using flash cards...they could help, but its like using review cds...useful, but not enough. try taking down notes straight from the book on the most common diseases asked in nclex. that is if you're into working extra hard. but whats sacrificing a little today if you can reap something good after nclex.
kaba
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i feel the same way sometimes