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. :)
I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe it's not yet the right time for you. Try to shake it off, stand up, prepare again and make a big come back! Keep your head high. Believe and have faith, you'll be a RN in no time.
Finally I was able to get my results and Yes, I'm now a US RN! :)
I just want to thank you all for the support, prayers and encouragement. I have a strong faith and I believe that's what get me through this. You see, I'm a foreign grad and I've been out of nursing field for more than 3 years. If I can do it, you guys can do it too! I think doing Q&A and content helps a lot. I finished 10,765 Q&As from January 21 until April 8.Hard work and Prayers. Lots of prayers. I literally prayed with every question even though I know the answer. Sacrifices, heartbreaks, efforts are all worth it. Graduate of 2009, Foreign Grad, 1st time NCLEX taker, Passed it with 75 questions. :)
I also asked for hep of St Joseph of Cupertino, Holy Mary, Sto Nino, Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Holy spirit. God hear our prayers. To GOD be all the glory!
Finally I was able to get my results and Yes, I'm now a US RN! :)
I just want to thank you all for the support, prayers and encouragement. I have a strong faith and I believe that's what get me through this. You see, I'm a foreign grad and I've been out of nursing field for more than 3 years. If I can do it, you guys can do it too! I think doing Q&A and content helps a lot. I finished 10,765 Q&As from January 21 until April 8.Hard work and Prayers. Lots of prayers. I literally prayed with every question even though I know the answer. Sacrifices, heartbreaks, efforts are all worth it. Graduate of 2009, Foreign Grad, 1st time NCLEX taker, Passed it with 75 questions. :)
I also asked for hep of St Joseph of Cupertino, Holy Mary, Sto Nino, Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Holy spirit. God hear our prayers. To GOD be all the glory!
Just passed nclex today, according to pearson vue trick. My method of studying included skimming through the ATI book I received from the live review. Other than that I relied on the thought that if I couldn't pass from 3 years of nursing school knowledge and teaching then it probably wasn't meant to be. The test stopped after 75 questions with 2/3 of them SATAs. It took about 50 min. Walking out I pretty much felt like I failed but thankfully I passed. I'm glad now I didn't waste a ton of money signing up for all the reviews and buying books/CDs. I guess it depends on how well your school prepared you.
meeky71
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OMG !!!!! I am still in shock and shaking sooo much .... just did quick results ..... I PASSED !!!!!!!