How come I can't do better?

[GuineaPigs, BSN, RN]

I suck at taking med-surg questions, so I've been doing them tirelessly. I use all the prescribed strategies: least invasive first, ABC's, Maslow hierarchy of needs, comparable or alike answers, umbrella terms, strategic words, subject, priority, negative & positive event query's, etc. Yet I still can't score any better than when I didn't use them. Out of 50 some question I'm always stuck in the mid-thirty range. I want to score at least 40/50, but I just can't seem to push it higher. It's as if all my work is for moot and my score is destined to stay in the mid-thirty range. I feel that unless I know everything, every tiny little detail, then I can't score anything decent. Has anyone else gone through this? What did you do?

[strawberryluv, BSN, RN]

I've been told if you get at least a 70% doing questions then you're in the clear or the green. It will be VERY hard to score like 80's and 90's because these are like higher level thinking, you know? You got this. If you're making 65%-75% questions correct on one sitting for NCLEX questions...you're probably going to pass the NCLEX.