How I passed NCLEX the 1st try 2016

Lerman2010 · Feb 13, 2016

Hey everyone! I wanted to post my experience since I relied on this site to get information and boost my confindence by reading other peoples posts on NCLEX.

I graduated on December 15th, 2015. I didn't get my ATT until 1/18/2016. The soonest I could schedule was 3 weeks out. So I gave myself 3 weeks to study. I had all the NCLEX books and even bought the Kaplan 2015-2016 q book or something like that. I NEVER opened any of them! Some clever person posted some trainers on quizlet so I used those to practice - I did all 7 of them. Once a week another nursing student and I would meet at the library and do a series of 75 Q bank questions from Kaplan. She purchased Kaplan and we used her Q bank. I purchased the Kaplan Q bank for 1 month $50, but didn't use it because we used her q bank to study from and there were the same. I noticed on Kaplan the majority of the questions were: who would you see first, who would you call back first, who can you delegate this patient to?

3 days before my exam I found a book in my big book pile from nursing school - Delegation, Priority, and Assignment - Red & Blue skinny book 2nd edition. Low and behold..... it was all priority type questions broke down into chapters: fluid/electrolytes, pain, renal, etc... (I had never opened the book before and didn't realize it was ALL questions). I decided I had enough of Kaplan and was going to focus on this book. I did about 8 chapters in 2 days picking through the topics I knew I needed help with.

The day before the exam I put all my books away, deleted all my nursing apps, and got a Mani-ped and watched the Super Bowl.

I took the exam on 2-8-16 - 104 questions and it shut off. I only had 10 SATA. I could tell what subject i was struggling with because I kept getting more questions on it (OB). To be honest it was the subject I didn't study for because I heard there weren't many questions.

I was a B student all through nursing school. It wasn't easy for me i had to study a lot and didn't work. Just before my 4th block I was diagnosed with Triple negative breast cancer and underwent chemo & surgery in my last block. While I studied for NCLEX, I underwent 20 rounds of Radiation. I am now cancer free and am ready to start my career as a nurse. If I can do this anyone can do this!!!

I cannot stress enough that you need to get the delegation & priority book. It will save you in NCLEX.

Good luck everyone!