I can relate to having too many sources. By the time I graduated in February, I had:
1. Saunders
2. ATI (a module, CD and online tests for each class)
3. Hurst
4. Success Series books for each class
5. Kaplan Trainer Questions
6. NCSBN
7. LaCharity's PD&A
and probably more that I'm leaving off. By the time I started my serious studying, I had already eliminated Saunders, ATI, and the Success Series. When I scheduled, I had exactly one month. The first few days of the month, I was at the Hurst Live Review. This was my second time attending the Live Review. After that, my plan was to do tons and tons of questions. But I kept realizing that I was lacking information as far as content. I rearranged my study plans. I signed up for the Hurst Online Review so that I could go through the content again (a third time) and take more notes. Then, I signed up for the NCSBN review. At first, I was doing a Hurst lecture and then going on NCSBN and reviewing the content for the same lecture. I did this for four or five days until I realized that I wouldn't have enough time to get through the NCSBN content (sooooo much). So I rearranged my plan AGAIN. I kept listening to the Hurst lectures until I got through them all. Then, I reviewed the content on NCSBN but ONLY for the first seven sections of NCLEX, not the 8th, Physiology. This is because I felt like that was my strong point after having listened to Marlene (Hurst) three times! And I did the QReview with Hurst as well. The last week, I had intended to do nothing but questions but, once again, that plan fell through. I did LOTS of LaCharity's book during the last week. Lots of NCSBN quizzes and reviewed lots of lab values and infection control.
Long story short (too late? ) I had TOO many sources, narrowed them down, and STILL had a ton. However, I couldn't imagine myself not doing questions from NCSBN when the same people write NCLEX. And there was no way I wasn't doing LaCharity's book. And Hurst made learning fun--Aunt Marlene quotes are still ringing in my head.
I took NCLEX yesterday so I guess you can wait til tomorrow to find out if any of my advice is valid.
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I can relate to having too many sources. By the time I graduated in February, I had:
1. Saunders
2. ATI (a module, CD and online tests for each class)
3. Hurst
4. Success Series books for each class
5. Kaplan Trainer Questions
6. NCSBN
7. LaCharity's PD&A
and probably more that I'm leaving off. By the time I started my serious studying, I had already eliminated Saunders, ATI, and the Success Series. When I scheduled, I had exactly one month. The first few days of the month, I was at the Hurst Live Review. This was my second time attending the Live Review. After that, my plan was to do tons and tons of questions. But I kept realizing that I was lacking information as far as content. I rearranged my study plans. I signed up for the Hurst Online Review so that I could go through the content again (a third time) and take more notes. Then, I signed up for the NCSBN review. At first, I was doing a Hurst lecture and then going on NCSBN and reviewing the content for the same lecture. I did this for four or five days until I realized that I wouldn't have enough time to get through the NCSBN content (sooooo much). So I rearranged my plan AGAIN. I kept listening to the Hurst lectures until I got through them all. Then, I reviewed the content on NCSBN but ONLY for the first seven sections of NCLEX, not the 8th, Physiology. This is because I felt like that was my strong point after having listened to Marlene (Hurst) three times! And I did the QReview with Hurst as well. The last week, I had intended to do nothing but questions but, once again, that plan fell through. I did LOTS of LaCharity's book during the last week. Lots of NCSBN quizzes and reviewed lots of lab values and infection control.
Long story short (too late?
) I had TOO many sources, narrowed them down, and STILL had a ton. However, I couldn't imagine myself not doing questions from NCSBN when the same people write NCLEX. And there was no way I wasn't doing LaCharity's book. And Hurst made learning fun--Aunt Marlene quotes are still ringing in my head. 
I took NCLEX yesterday so I guess you can wait til tomorrow to find out if any of my advice is valid.
Good luck to you. :redbeathe