Depressed and studying my butt off.

[adamsmom]

I did HORRIBLE on my exit Hesi, I retake it on Thurs. My teacher suggested to do 100 questions a day but do them in small blocks and make sure I understand the rationales of the ones I get wrong. She also suggested for me to concentrate questions from the print out of my Hesi and do most of my questions on the subjects I did bad on.

So that's what I have been doing. I have not gone back into my textbooks yet on my bad subjects.

I am not sure if it is better just to keep doing questions or do questions and go back into textbooks on my bad subjects. I am improving my scores, I have been doing Saunders 4th CD also Davis (teacher likes that one the best), and Lippencott too. Just to get a range of different questions.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

Thanks

[racing-mom4, BSN, RN]

It sounds to me like your doing everything right, you know your self and what works for you study wise.

I did not use txt books while preparing for boards. I took all the ATI (our school bought us the pkg) content area test: Neuro/muscoskelatal/endo/etc etc etc and wrote down all my scores, personally I scored lowest in the muscoskelatal so that is where I began my practice questions, I did the Saunders 100 point test on the topic as well as targeted my Davis(my personal favorite as well--and what I believe helped me pass Nclex) disk towards muscoskelatal. Then I retook the ATI test to see if my score improved. Then I moved onto my next lowest score.

I also did small chunks of tests, for me 20 questions at a time was perfect. I am sort of ADDish and cant sit still for long so seeing the score so quickly helped me stay motivated, I would take 20questions tests over and over and over. I read all 4 of the rationals.

Best of luck to you. I really believe the anxiety is worse than the actual test and you know the material, you graduated and that alone is a great accomplishment. You can do it, just stay on track and do what works best for you!!!