FALSE PVT!?!?

jj224 · Aug 20, 2016

Sounds like you failed

Catalin, BSN, RN · Aug 24, 2016

Any update?

Laila26 · Aug 26, 2016

UPDATE: I did fail I got my Candidate Performance Report in the mail today which said I was Near Passing in all areas. I bought the NCSBSN learning extension for 5 weeks, hoping that will help me. I know my weaknesses are ABGs and Strips...which of course I got a lot of. I did well in my Pharmacology class and Im also a Pharmacy Technician, but some of those meds I saw on the exam.. I was clueless!! Im hoping this program provides a good review of material. I saw on this website that the questions in the program are old nclex questions, and being that it's written by the same people.. WHY NOT!?

Catalin, BSN, RN · Aug 26, 2016

I would look into the NCLEX mastery app as well. It's only $30 and you can buy a practice exam for $10. Well worth it and helped me study for mine! Did your school provide you with ATI or Kaplan?

Laila26 · Aug 26, 2016

Oh I have that! I find it to be not as challenging at the NSBCN questions. I had HESI via Evolve throughout school. I did not do the Kaplan course, and I do know people who have failed with the course. My professors said Kaplan more or less offers tactics on how to answer questions, but not content. For my previous test I took last week, I finished my whole Saunder book, which I probably read half of, and then all my classmates said I should just be doing questions. So I did the questions at the end of every chapter, read the rationales for what I got wrong and went back for clarification. i also checked out books from the Library. I did a Kaplan comprehensive test, 5 comprehensive exams from a lippincott book, and an evolve book with solely priority questions. I thought that was plenty! And I did NCLEX mastery here and there when I got free time. I wrote down my labs and nemonics on flash cards which i also studied on my free time. Going forward being that I did just take the exam last week and Ive been studying on and off since June, I was planning on just doing the NCBSN program, reading the notes I have, NCLEX mastery, and brushing up on my weak points. I also think reading the rationales for what I got correct AND wrong will help. I also checked out a "NCLEX Illustrated" book with nemonics and various tricks to remember things.. I hope that will be helpful.

I was in an accelerated 15 month second degree bachelors program, RIGHT after Rutgers University bought out UMDNJ. I think and lack of organization and merging of curriculums contribute to my lack of content knowledge in some areas... so I find the NCBSN review helpful for that.

barcode120x, RN, NP · Aug 28, 2016

My professors said Kaplan more or less offers tactics on how to answer questions, but not content.

This is true, but I believe "tactics" and strategy are more important than content. It is impossible for you to know all the content so you need tricks up your sleeve to answer the questions. There are some questions you have NO clue about in terms of content, but if you know NCLEX strategies, you can get a lot of those questions right. I do highly recommend Kaplan followed by Saunders. My community college's NP follows Kaplan where everything else was supplemental. Most of our class was successful on the first attempt at NCLEX.