How long did you study before writing CPNRE

Lucydog14 · Sep 8, 2019

I studied for about a week.

GBC_Student, BSN, RN · Sep 8, 2019

I studied every day, 12 hours a day, for three weeks before writing and passing my first time.

bnursing3, LPN · Sep 12, 2019

I studied about 6 hours a day (12pm-6pm), 5 days a week (Mon-Fri), for 1.5 - 2 months (mid April to end of June 2019). I wrote my exam on June 24th, 2019, and passed on the first attempt! I would recommend practicing the questions at the end of the chapters and at the back of whatever CPNRE textbook you get, rather than trying to read every written section of the book. I initially had a reading outline created to read every section of the book within a month, but quickly changed back to answering multiple choice questions instead!

stonepod · Sep 12, 2019

21 minutes ago, bnursing3 said:
I studied about 6 hours a day (12pm-6pm), 5 days a week (Mon-Fri), for 1.5 - 2 months (mid April to end of June 2019). I wrote my exam on June 24th, 2019, and passed on the first attempt! I would recommend practicing the questions at the end of the chapters and at the back of whatever CPNRE textbook you get, rather than trying to read every written section of the book. I initially had a reading outline created to read every section of the book within a month, but quickly changed back to answering multiple choice questions instead!

Thank you for this. I'm 3 weeks away from writing my cpnre and I feel that reading chapters isn't helping me. Did you feel that doing practice questions then grading yourself and reviewing week areas truly helped? You're the only person who has talked about not reading chapters and passing. I just want to do test questions everyday instead . Thank you for your time

bnursing3, LPN · Sep 12, 2019

53 minutes ago, stonepod said:
Thank you for this. I'm 3 weeks away from writing my cpnre and I feel that reading chapters isn't helping me. Did you feel that doing practice questions then grading yourself and reviewing week areas truly helped? You're the only person who has talked about not reading chapters and passing. I just want to do test questions everyday instead . Thank you for your time

I initially was reading chapters for maybe a couple of weeks and although it was informative- I don't think I was really retaining any information, because it was a passive way of learning. I found that doing practice questions helped me way more, because I had to think on the spot, rationalize my answers and recall my actions from clinical- which helped me to actively learn the material. When I completed the practice questions, I marked myself afterwards, and would read every rationale regardless of if I got it wrong or not, to understand why the writer considered a answer wrong or right. I also tried to do interactive questions using the online resources (with the code that came in the textbook), such as labeling, filling in the blanks, matching etc, which helped to active most of my senses (audio, kinetics, visual). I would also say that it would be a good idea to watch videos on vital signs, health assignment, and nursing care (bed-making, feeding, bathing etc) that you program provided through your school's library resources to get a visual reminder of basic processes. My rule of thumb is to study for any test in the the way in which the test is going to be presented to you. If your test is going to be multiple choice, then do multiple choice questions! When i followed this method of studying, it helped me tremendously in nursng school, and ultimately for the CPNRE and law exam!