I did my best to prepare for this exam. It was a roller coaster ride, felt the craziest feeling I never had before. This forum helped me a lot since I'm a foreign grad and NCLEX is very different with the local board exam from which I came from. I don't know what to expect so I had tons of review materials. They made me confused so I stick to Hurst, Saunders, La Charity, KAPLAN, NCLEX 3500 and a few NCLEX CRAM Q&A (still a lot. Lol). I'm fortunate that all I need to do everyday is to study. I had "lazy" days but I make sure that I catch up with my sched. Yes, I made my own schedule. With date, topics and Q&A that I need to finish then evaluate myself. I had trouble remembering lab values, erikson, vaccination and infection control, what I did was I printed out a sheet for each topic and wrote them down every single day.
For HURST, my scores were as follows
Qreview 1: 86 (68.8%)
Qreview 2: 78 (62.4%)
Qreview 3: 94 (75.2%)
Qreview 4: 96 (76.8%)
Qreview 5: 106 (83.5%)
Qreview 6: 93 (74.4%)
Online review was a tremendous help, made me get back on track. Maybe I repeated them about 4x.
For KAPLAN, I used the old QTrainer which you can just download for free online. Didn't take 6 and 7 because there's no way you can pause it.
Qtrainer 1: 65%
Qtrainer 2: 61%
Qtrainer 3: 67%
Qtrainer 4: 69%
Qtrainer 5: 67%
I also have the KAPLAN 2013-2014 Strategies
CD Practice exam: 76%
Book Practice Test: 74%
Questions were harder than HURST Q-review.
I'm not going to review tomorrow anymore. I'm done and I just want this to be over. I hope and pray that what I did is enough to pass the test.
Any suggestion that can help me in any way are greatly appreciated. :)
