I'm a recent grad and sat for my nclex today. I finished my four day kaplan course three weeks ago, and have been steadily tackling all of the question trainers (averaging about 59%) and all of the qbank questions (averaging about 65-70%). I felt like I really had my testing strategies down, especially the decision tree, and I really put in the time and effort of understanding the content when remediating. I felt like my scores were on target with the kaplan testing material as well.
However, when I took my test today I felt like many of the questions were on unfamiliar topics and obscure material that was barely touched on in nursing school and not covered at all in the kaplan content review! I had no delegation questions, no questions involving the analysis of lab values, no hot spot assessment questions, nothing on common surgeries or med-surg type diagnoses-- it was all completely out of left field! And when there was a familiar topic, I found all of the available answers undesirable. I didn't find that I could use the decision tree on any of the 75 questions-- if anything, I only used kaplan's "who do you see first" strategy on a couple questions.
Has anyone else ever had this kind of experience with the nclex before? I'm praying I did pass but can't help but feel that it could go either way.
