Best NCLEX RN review? Considering Harder to pass

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Specializes in Cardiac, Derm, OB.

Ok, my question is since they have upped the ante so to speak as of April 1, 2010. Who is the best NCLEX RN review course?

I am already studying my Sauders (have used for last couple of semesters) and have the NCLEX 4000 (required for program). I am wanting a really great live review especially considering the bar has been raised. Additionally, I am concerned about pharmacology b/c our school made us take this online and with MedSurg I/II so feel as though we were kind of neglected in this area.

Welcome, all who have taken or had experience with the most used reviews (Kaplan, Hurst). These are the 2 I keep hearing.

Thank you all in advance:)

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Moved to the NCLEX forum to encourage responses. Good luck!

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I just took the NCLEX yesterday and my advice would be to really know content, so I think Saunders is a good tool. I didn't do a Kaplan course, but I did use the Kaplan question bank (I also paid $50 and did the NCSBN online 3 wk review). I personally thought the questions weren't tricky or difficult, either you knew the content or didn't. Of course I sat there getting mad at each question just because I felt I didn't have a clue what the answer was :uhoh3:. There were no hints within the question that helped me figure them out. I did a lot of guessing! I would say I did over 4,000 practice questions between the end of December and this week. According to the PVT I unofficially passed :).

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I just took the NCLEX yesterday and my advice would be to really know content, so I think Saunders is a good tool. I didn't do a Kaplan course, but I did use the Kaplan question bank (I also paid $50 and did the NCSBN online 3 wk review). I personally thought the questions weren't tricky or difficult, either you knew the content or didn't. Of course I sat there getting mad at each question just because I felt I didn't have a clue what the answer was :uhoh3:. There were no hints within the question that helped me figure them out. I did a lot of guessing! I would say I did over 4,000 practice questions between the end of December and this week. According to the PVT I unofficially passed :).

Hi! do you think doing the practice questions has helped you? been out of school long time and taking the test end of March seems too late to start the content review. I'm into Q&A almost 2000 now.

Thanks! congrats!

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Hi! do you think doing the practice questions has helped you? been out of school long time and taking the test end of March seems too late to start the content review. I'm into Q&A almost 2000 now.

Thanks! congrats!

I don't think that you need more than a month to get the content back in your head. I learned a lot of content by doing the practice questions. I don't feel that the Kaplan questions were much like the NCLEX at all, they seemed so convoluted and tricky. I did use my Linda Lacharity Priority, Delegation & Assignment book a lot too, I would recommend that (we used this book in our last semester in school so I already had it). Some of the higher level questions are priority and delegation, so that book was great for getting a handle on those areas (it's a workbook with rationales in the answer key). As for the meds, good luck. I got more that I had never heard of than ones I was familiar with, I don't know how anyone memorizes all of those for the NCLEX.

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I would set your appointment for the last week in March and get it over with. I doubt that any of the live reviews have addressed the new changes or we would know about it from their ads. Good luck.

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Hi

can anyone tell me how to pass nclex rn. I try 2 time i fail.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Hi

can anyone tell me how to pass nclex rn. I try 2 time i fail.

What have you been doing up to now? What has your study plan been like?

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study from saunders

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I have problem with delegation and priority question. knowledge base is good

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

This is supposed to be a great book to help you with delegation Amazon.com: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX Examination (9780323065702): Linda LaCharity PhD RN, Candice K. Kumagai RN MSN, Barbara Bartz RN MN CCRN: Books

For me what helped was doing questions approx 150 a day (did vary) and reading the rationale. Made me understand to read the question to what it was really looking for in the answer. Most times I was able to discount 2 of them as rubbish and then left 2 for me to look at and use ABC, Maslow etc

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Thank You so much for reply.

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