Failed my nclex rn :(

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Hello so I took my nclex rn test sept 1, 2015 and found out I failed. Had 265 questions which I thought were half and half easy and hard. I used exsm cram, Kaplan strategies book, and the prioritization book by charity. Anybody suggests anything else or may share what they used? I'm retaking it next month and need to pass this thing!!!!HELP?????

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I am sure that this has impacted you greatly. Hugs you. When I finished school on 7/31. I just answered about 200 questions every other day in my Saunders book. I used my ATI predictor material.

This is just a setback, not a defeat.

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I am so sorry to hear, try uworld.com. If you are on Facebook, look it up, also see the reviews.

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The best way to prepare is to do 100-200 questions everyday for at least two weeks, Saunders is great but it's content review, you need to practice questions that require critical thinking and strategies and not just memorization, which is what Saunders tests. Try getting your hands nclex level questions. This will prepare you the best. Just buy a Kaplan Qbank or Uworld, something with lots of nclex level questions. Good luck you got this!

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Thank you very much I'll look into Uworld right now never heard of it!

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I also suggest Uworld! I took nclex rn at the end of august and it was the only resource that i used to prepare. i ended up completing just over 1200 questions and passed nclex in 85. Each question provides a brief content review and an explanation as to why each answer was correct/incorrect. Its awesome!! Good luck, you got this! :)

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Hey, I'm so sorry!! That must have really been terrible:( I studied by answering practice questions. I probably answered thousands; by the time I took the actual NCLEX I had 75 questions, finished in about an hour, and left smiling! Now... I'm saying I passed NCLEX that way, but that's not how I learned how to be a nurse. That s*** takes a year or two;)

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I literally didn't even read the review part of the questions, I ONLY read the right answer. So I associated the right answer with the question. Within a few words of a question I could tell you the letter choice (a,b, c,d) of the correct answer. THATS HOW MANY PRACTICE QUESTIONS I DID😉 chill out and do practice questions until your eyes cross, that's my advice

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Hello so I took my nclex rn test sept 1, 2015 and found out I failed. Had 265 questions which I thought were half and half easy and hard. I used exsm cram, Kaplan strategies book, and the prioritization book by charity. Anybody suggests anything else or may share what they used? I'm retaking it next month and need to pass this thing!!!!HELP?????

That's why you went the full-length of the exam. You were right on the pass/fail line for basically the entire exam. You might have even studied too hard, which is possible. My studying for the NCLEX consisted of going through school, doing NCLEX questions through NCLEX 4000, and the Saunders 6E. That's it as far as studying itself was concerned. The other thing I worked on was how to approach each question of the exam. Here's what I did for every question that came up:

  1. Read the entire question, and just the question.
  2. Formulate an answer in my mind about what I think the answer should be, depending up on format of the question)
  3. Read all the answers.
  4. Do NOT select any of them yet.
  5. Re-read the entire question with the answers in mind.
  6. Look for any key words and phrases from those answers that might clue you in. (Keeps you from MISreading the question)
  7. Read the answers again now that you've re-read the question.
  8. Select the best/most correct answer, just once, unless there's a VERY overwhelming case for changing an answer.
  9. Submit the question for grading and move on.

One of the most horrible things I'm prone to do is MISread the question and answer (correctly) the misread. Because I make a provisional answer in my head, it helps clue me into the idea that I may have misread the question as I read the answers. By forcing me to re-read the question, I must then reanalyze the question. Then I'm well-primed to select the correct answer. Lastly, by moving on, it forces me to not dwell on it and by selecting an answer just once is an acknowledgement that my first answer is highly likely to be the correct one.

SATA questions are actually pretty easy. Each "answer" is basically a T/F statement that must be all "true" to satisfy the question. Any "false" stuff in the "answer statement" and you must not select it. They're really just that easy! The problem is that you must know the material well enough to spot the "false" stuff...

Since you were probably right at the pass/fail line, you probably do know the material better than you think you do. If you get the CPR report before you take the next exam, review it to see what area you need to work on. I doubt it'll be much more than a general fine-tuning of how you answer questions than content.

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Yes I got the cpr report and in every section I was near the passing line except for pharmacology. I had a 3.8 gpa and was very suprised people from my class who barely made it passed NCLEX and I didnt. I really like the questions from Uworld they look like the real thing.i will actually do the one month questions and practice them.

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Sorry to hear this. NCLEX-Rn app on my iPhone is all I used. I loved it. I did questions anytime I had down time, waiting in line, getting a pedicure......it was so handy!

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