3. Saunders Comprehensive Review - 77 chapters- 2 per day with questions after each chapter. You can use any other books as an outline for your studies. Every week evaluate and adjust your progress.
4. Medical terminology by Alice V. Prendergast (you can read any other book)- 26 chapters - 1 per day.
5. Pharmacology - study one category per week - 5 to 10 drugs per day.
"Prioritization, Delegation and Assignment" by Linda A. LaCharity, Lippincott or Davis Q & A - 50 questions per day for 1st 30 days then 75, 100, 150. Add gradually and make sure to do at least 3 practice tests that contains all 265 questions. Goal is to cover at least 4,000 - 5,000 questions before your exam. Some nurses have done 10,000. Just try to develop a strategy for your answers don't memorize them!!!
8. Nursing skills, clinical procedures overview - 1 per day.
9. Keep study log everyday and make some corrections on your way. If you can do it even 1 chapter per day - record that!!! It will show your accomplishments and not failures.
10. Take one day to rest and have fun activities for yourself. Praise yourself for hard work! It will be paid off on your exam!!!
Specializes in cardiac CVRU/ICU/cardiac rehab/case management.
Old school here certainly for NCEX I put books away committed to doing 3000 prep questions and ended up doing 5000. At the end of doing this I finally "Thought like a nurse " Hands down I learned not only more from the questions but several questions I had done in the prep books came up almost word for word. I waded through nursing school but found the NCLEX much easier and more directed than the nursing school's twisted questions.
Problem with that is if you don't know the content you end up memorizing bunch of trivia without knowing the roots. After a while you will answer more and more questions correctly but did you really prepare yourself for everyday challenges? Practice is the key here - I do agree with that! As a foreign nurse I have to admit lot's of things must be reviewed before I sit for exam. :)
So happy to hear that this post helps you with your studies. It is not that complicated... persistence is the key! Yesterday was my birthday and I will post my progress today. Let's continue!
Let's continue! 
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Thanks for this information. This can be a valuable tool for those who are reviewing for the NCLEX. Thank you for sharing this.