most common topics on NCLEX 2017

[ktimp]

Hey Everyone!

I'm taking my NCLEX soon and I was wondering if there was anything in particular that people have noticed a lot of on the test, like the most commonly asked topics. I have heard from a few people that they noticed a lot of legal topics on the exam. I just want to make sure I haven't left anything out of my studying!!

Thank you!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

NCSBN makes the test plans readily available on their website. https://www.ncsbn.org/2016_RN_Test_Plan_Candidate.pdf is the current plan for NCLEX-RN; https://www.ncsbn.org/PN_Test_Plan_2014_Candidate.pdf is the plan for NCLEX-PN until the end of March; https://www.ncsbn.org/PN_Det_Test_Plan_2017.pdf is the plan for NCLEX-PN beginning April 1. Yes, distribution percentages are included in the plan- this is the one for NCLEX-RN:

[NorthernNurse BSN,RN]

As I'm sure you know, when you go to take the exam, they make you sign a paper saying that you won't discuss the content of the exam so I can't be too specific unfortunately! I took mine a few weeks ago and passed in 75. I had 26 SATA questions which seemed quite overwhelming at the time. I looked at mnemonics for infection control type questions (which diseases require airborne, contact, droplet precautions) right before the exam and it came in handy. I also think it is important to know the difference between similar diseases like Crohns vs. ulcerative colitis, myasthenia gravis vs. MS vs. guillain-barre, and osteoarthritis vs. rheumatoid arthritis. Honestly, though, I felt like I got a lot of content questions wrong (I looked a lot of them up afterwards) but I knew I got the infection control correct and I knew I got a lot of the priority questions correct and I think that was most important. I should have known those content questions, but I didn't, and in my case it didn't matter. Also, I kept telling myself after I would get a SATA question that I must be doing really well to get so many of these! That helped ease my anxiety during the test! You'll do great, I personally think that it wasn't as hard as people make it out to be... and I was pretty much a straight B nursing student. I did about 2000 kaplan questions then took it. Also, there were 3 questions on the NCLEX that I had seen before either word for word or very close on kaplan. Good luck, you've totally got this!

[fustudent610, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

Definitely brush up on your ethical/legal!

[NICUismylife, ADN, BSN, RN]

It is different for everyone, NCLEX has a way of finding your weak areas. For example, I had a friend who said she felt like half her test was mental health. I literally had ONE mental health related question, and it was a SATA. I also had a friend who had 3 drug calculations, and I didn't have a single one! Another friend was hit hard on endocrine, and I don't remember seeing much if anything on endocrine. And we all of us passed with 75. I had 21 SATA, one drag-and-drop, 1 ECG, a few therapeutic communication, and the rest were all prioritization. I left feeling like there was no way I could have studied for that!

[pixierose, BSN, RN]

Go with Rose Queen's graph and do your best.

It's different for everyone. I had 42 SATA, no rhythm strips, no drug calc, lots of endocrine and Peds ... no "legal" and 75 questions.