Best NCLEX Prep 2020

[ProgressiveThinking, MSN, CRNA]

Hello,

My SO just graduated nursing school and is looking for the best NCLEX prep out there. Her school made her use ATI as part of their curriculum, but she doesn't like it. They're encouraging her to do the green light, but it's not required. They're heavily promoting sticking with ATI regardless of whether or not they do the green light. Back when I graduated in 2011, Kaplan was everybody's go to. I personally used a Saunders NCLEX prep book and passed with 75 questions. Uworld seems to be what everybody's talking about these days, but we're still not sure what we should sign up for. Any input helps!!

Thanks!

[Christina_, BSN, RN]

Hello! UWORLD is very popular today and many people go for uworld. I will also recommend UWORLD. My school also made us do ATI and I didn't like it at all. They made us do an ATI live review class to prepare for the NCLEX and I didn't like it. They gave us a comprehensive ATI review book, but I didn't open that book at all.

All I used was UWORLD to prepare for the NCLEX. I didn't do the best on ATI or UWORLD. ATI said I had ~50% chance of passing the NCLEX and the comp predictor for UWORLD said I was borderline. My scores on UWORLD ranged anywhere from low 40s to 80s. I passed NCLEX in 75 questions on my first try. I would not worry about scores you get tbh. Just practice questions and read the rationales for the questions that you do. Try to understand why you got that question wrong.

Good luck to you significant other! I hope she passes the NCLEX!

[fallgirl95, BSN, RN]

UWorld is the only resource I used. I kept doing 50-75 practice questions every day and read the rationales for each question I did, whether it was right or wrong. That helped me. UWorld prepared me so well! More then I thought it did. I passed NCLEX in 75 questions.

[ProgressiveThinking, MSN, CRNA]

Seems like everybody is saying U world!

[secretRN]

I only used Kaplan and I passed in 75 questions a couple of weeks ago!

[DTWriter]

A couple of decades ago, Kaplan was (imo) the ****; now, with the exception of its decision tree, it is just (imo) *****. UWorld is currently the go-to (along with other study materials).

[criticalcarefreak]

ATI is horrible. Hard and irrelevant, non-helpful questions. My school did the same. I swear the faculty has signed their life over to ATI or something because all they know how to do is live, breath and spew ATI crap. Discourage all other types of prep. Forget that, NOT TRUE!

UWORLD is the absolute best for practicing NCLEX questions. Very similar format, rationales, etc. I understand that everyone learns differently and has different preferences. I have found that those who don't mind ATI are the straight A, textbook reciter, brown-noser nursing students that are excellent test takers and their skills typically end there. Anyways, enough of that. U world is fantastic for practice questions and format. Basically identical. Everyone's test is different, but it is still fantastic practice. I also attended MARK KLIMEK review twice. He is the second coming of Jesus. He has many years of experience, is a professor and sits for the NCLEX exam every single year. He cuts right to the chase, not for nursing knowledge, but for NCLEX knowledge (you would think those two things would be the same right?! wrong). He is wonderful and I live in Ohio but I know he does travel to other states in the U.S. he gives you a book to fill out over the course of his 3 day long lectures. You cannot help but remember the acronyms and clever ways he comes up with to remember and analyze the ridiculous stuff and ways the NCLEX will format questions. Good luck to your s/o. It does get better. Nursing school is discouraging. Nursing school and NCLEX have absolutely nothing to do with your critical thinking abilities or empathy in real life. It gets you the license, that's it. Only working on your unit can you prove the nurse you actually are, period. GOOD LUCK, SENDING GOOD VIBES!