Anything else besides UWorld & Kaplan?

[rsvbbsn]

Hi, I'm really discouraged because I just failed NCLEX-RN for the 2nd time. The first time I focused on Kaplan. I took the Kaplan classroom training, which was a waste of time. The instructor was horrible. I also used Saunders and Lacharity. I took the test in December. It stopped after 250 questions in 5½ hours. I felt like the Kaplan decision tree let me down.

I heard good things about UWorld so I've been studying that every day for 5 months. I was doing well and I felt really confident going into the test. Well, the test was nothing like UWorld. There were many questions on subjects not covered by UWorld or Kaplan. The test stopped after 140 questions. I have no way of knowing, but I think I did even worse than the first time.

Is there anything else I'm missing? I felt like both of them let me down. I've wasted 7 months. I really don't understand the comments I read that NCLEX SATA was just like UWorld or that UWorld was harder than NCLEX. That wasn't my experience at all.

I really want to study and get over this, but I don't know what to study now.

[ArceusAlpha]

Can you elaborate on how your experience on the NCLEX vs UWorld? Personally, I found the NCLEX harder than UWorld, but I thought the questions were very very similar in style. In fact, I had a few questions on the NCLEX that was almost like a few I had on UWorld. Everyone's NCLEX will be different but I can't imagine the question formatting to be dissimilar.

Anyways, I know a few classmates just used HURST and passed on their first time.

When you study, do you write down any notes? Do read over the questions even if you get them correct? Do you re-do the incorrect questions?

Also, I think a big mistake is to be studying for several months before writing the exam. You mentioned you did UWorld over 5 months (I used/studied Uworld for just 1 month) and studying over long periods isn't a good thing to do simply because you will most likely forget many details from the earlier months.

There were a lot of "tiny" details I was able to retain from UWorld simply because I hammered myself with the content within the month so they were all relatively fresh in my mind. So perhaps its best to have a study plan no more than 2 months.