Changing NCLEX in March 2016?

[virgo7598]

I was reading that the NCLEX is changing March of 2016. I am planning on taking my NCLEX late 2016. My question is what changes are being made? I want to begin reading over NCLEX review guides but I don't want to start studying the old test when I'll end up taking the new one.

2nd question: what NCLEX review guides do you guys like best? I'm personally leaning toward Saunders but I heard Lippincott's is good too.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

I was reading that the NCLEX is changing March of 2016. I am planning on taking my NCLEX late 2016. My question is what changes are being made? I want to begin reading over NCLEX review guides but I don't want to start studying the old test when I'll end up taking the new one.

I believe you're referring to the change made EVERY three years; since the last one was March of 2013, the next would be March 2016.

The study materials don't change. The subject matter doesn't change. Even the "difficulty" is an intangible, as the change NSCBN is talking about has to do with logits, those blips of data that once analyzed determine how the questions are chosen, how they are evaluated/rated.

You won't see "Old test versus new test" anything, anywhere. In actuality, the only people adversely affected are those who were on the very thin line between passing and failing, and a good stiff wind in either direction would blow them the other way.

Your school should be preparing you for the test you expect to take when you graduate, logits and all :)