15 Days to Nclex, been studying for months

sara567 · Feb 1, 2016

Take a day or 2 off. Recharge and refresh. For me, I took an entire week off between school and nclex studying. It's exactly what I needed and I came back refreshed.

You don't have that luxury, but you can afford 1-2 days.

Chrissygraduatenurse, LPN · Feb 1, 2016

Take a day or 2 off. Recharge and refresh. For me, I took an entire week off between school and nclex studying. It's exactly what I needed and I came back refreshed.
You don't have that luxury, but you can afford 1-2 days.

This helps, do you think that I should cover mainly content for these next 15 days or questions more? What would you suggest?

sara567 · Feb 1, 2016

That is up to you. If you are weak in certain areas, study that. If you are weak at certain types of questions do more of those.

The he ncsbn gives a rough idea of what will be on the exam. Go through the list and make sure you know all the topics.

When end I took mine last week I had 12 SATA and 30-40 prioritization/delegation questions. 2 classmates that took it the day before me had 30+ SATA and 12-15 prioritization. We all ended (and passed) in 75 questions. Are you good at these?

mrsboots87 · Feb 1, 2016

Honestly, if youve been studying that long, then you shouldnt need to cover anymore content. Actual NCLEX questions are weird in that they do require you to know content, but the answers may not be what you were expecting if that makes sense. You would be better off just taking a couple days off to recoup, then just do at least 100 questions a day until NCLEX. No matter what you do, you will get question that make you second guess if you ever even went to nursing school lol. And some you would even recognize what drug or illness or procedure the question is even talking about. There is literally too much content to ever expect to learn before testing. But by doing a lot of questions and really focusing on test taking strategies, you should be able to decipher the questions in order to get down to at least 2 answers to pick from.

I took NCLEX last week and passed in 75 questions. But I left the building almost in tears and was sure I failed (just like pretty much everyone else who takes NCLEX) because the questions were like nothing I'v seen. And some of my nursing program instructors are HESI review instructors and NCLEX question writers. So it's not like we were not properly prepared. But the way the algorithm works is with intent to give you questions at the top end of your capability, which means they will all seem hard to you no matter what.

SATA mean nothing. They are not harder or easier questions. Just a type of question. I play true or false with the answers and it has seemed to work this far. But there will be a good amount of prioritization and delegation type questions, so work on those for sure. Like "a med/surg nurse is floated to Peds, which patient asignment would you give them" and then it will have 4 patients for you to pick from. And then the normal "which patient do you see first" and "which drug do you see first" and such. But outside of that, your question type will be different then almost anybody you talk to because of the adaptive functioning of the test. I got a mix of everything, but seemed to get more F&E questions then other types on my test. Guess I wasnt doing the best with those. But one of my friends got a good amount of OB/GYN, and another kept getting what seemed like basic fundamentals type stuff. We all passed in 75 and almost 2 hours, but had very different tests.

Chrissygraduatenurse, LPN · Feb 1, 2016

That is up to you. If you are weak in certain areas, study that. If you are weak at certain types of questions do more of those.
The he ncsbn gives a rough idea of what will be on the exam. Go through the list and make sure you know all the topics.
When end I took mine last week I had 12 SATA and 30-40 prioritization/delegation questions. 2 classmates that took it the day before me had 30+ SATA and 12-15 prioritization. We all ended (and passed) in 75 questions. Are you good at these?

I am struggling a little with the question that you have to put the steps in order

newbienurse227 · Feb 1, 2016

Take a break :) if you've been studying that long, you'll be fine.

I was a B student with one C. I studied 1 week (but you can include the 8 weeks of ATI Review my school required to graduate). I used solely Uworld.com once I graduated, memorized lab values & basic stuff like antidotes. I passed in 75 questions, first time. Uworld really helped me because it looks exactly like the NCLEX & because it has tons of SATA questions plus the rationales are so informative!

I would definitely recommend not waiting any longer though because once you get that license, the real stress comes from finding a job with "no nursing experience"!

Chrissygraduatenurse, LPN · Feb 1, 2016

Honestly, if youve been studying that long, then you shouldnt need to cover anymore content. Actual NCLEX questions are weird in that they do require you to know content, but the answers may not be what you were expecting if that makes sense. You would be better off just taking a couple days off to recoup, then just do at least 100 questions a day until NCLEX. No matter what you do, you will get question that make you second guess if you ever even went to nursing school lol. And some you would even recognize what drug or illness or procedure the question is even talking about. There is literally too much content to ever expect to learn before testing. But by doing a lot of questions and really focusing on test taking strategies, you should be able to decipher the questions in order to get down to at least 2 answers to pick from.
I took NCLEX last week and passed in 75 questions. But I left the building almost in tears and was sure I failed (just like pretty much everyone else who takes NCLEX) because the questions were like nothing I'v seen. And some of my nursing program instructors are HESI review instructors and NCLEX question writers. So it's not like we were not properly prepared. But the way the algorithm works is with intent to give you questions at the top end of your capability, which means they will all seem hard to you no matter what.
SATA mean nothing. They are not harder or easier questions. Just a type of question. I play true or false with the answers and it has seemed to work this far. But there will be a good amount of prioritization and delegation type questions, so work on those for sure. Like "a med/surg nurse is floated to Peds, which patient asignment would you give them" and then it will have 4 patients for you to pick from. And then the normal "which patient do you see first" and "which drug do you see first" and such. But outside of that, your question type will be different then almost anybody you talk to because of the adaptive functioning of the test. I got a mix of everything, but seemed to get more F&E questions then other types on my test. Guess I wasnt doing the best with those. But one of my friends got a good amount of OB/GYN, and another kept getting what seemed like basic fundamentals type stuff. We all passed in 75 and almost 2 hours, but had very different tests.

this helps me I am struggling with the questions where you place the steps the order in which you would do them. Did you have any of these?