How Many Questions do you do per day?

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:rolleyes: Well I'm just curious for those of you who've taken the NCLEX and passed and for those of you preparing as we speak. At average how many questions do you do per day? I am doing 100 and I met up with someone from IV class today and she said I should be doing 300 and that 100-150 isn't enough per day. She's a first time test taker and unfortunatly I am not. Anyways any feedback will be greatly appreciated, Thanks. :typing
Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac Floor.

I did 100 per day of the Saunders CD and read rationales for the ones I got right and wrong. I did a total of 3000Q on the CD, more if you count the book. I passed NCLEX with 75 questions.:twocents::nurse:

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Congrat's Windyhill :yeah:

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Wow Congratulations Windy on Passing your boards! Again I'd like to thank everyone who responded and sorry for the late reply. Well I guess 100 works for me, sometimes I do less like I try to do 80 at least since I have a very tiresome schedule. I get up in the morning at 6AM go to work and go home at 4PM, get some sleep since I know once I get home and I'm tired my brain just won't function well and needs to rest. I get up again at 8PM do my questions and read the rationales. I probably study up until about 1-2AM then I go to bed since I have work the following day. Anyways I'll be testing next month as I'm scheduled for September so I really really hope that I'm retaining everything that I've read and practiced!!! I just found out last night that I'm really weak on Cardiovascular disorders so I'm gonna be reading that tonight.

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Specializes in Palliative care Clinician.

I think it is better not to do more than 100 question per day as earlier said. I have done up to 5000 with just 100 everyday but over a long period of time. it is not how far but how well. I think ability to retain everything you ve read is the most important . taking mine next week. good luck 2 you

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Specializes in Chiropractic assistant, CNA in LTC, RN.

Well Suzanne says do 100 because if you do more, you'll overstress your brain and not retain the info. I thought it sounded like not enough but Suzanne has helped a lot of people pass the NCLEX so I'm following her advice. Just my two cents.

PS, when I was working thru the Saunders book I probably did more than that on some days but now I'm doing strictly 100 per day.

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I never recommend more than 100 per day, as you should be reviewing rationales as well. Cramming does not work for an exam like this, it is interested in what is already in your head, and how you are going to use it.

Those that do 300 per day just have the information go in one ear and out the other and they do not retain it.

What Suzanne said is very very true. I did 8,000+ questions before my test but I still failed it despite doing about 250 questions every day. My mistake was briefly reviewing the rationales rather than spending more time understanding why I got the questions wrong.

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i do 50-100 a day!!!

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Specializes in ED.

I did between 100 and 300 per day but I only studied for about 2 weeks. If you have a long period of time before your test I would do 100 per day. And I find that I got through them pretty quickly so doing 100 just didn't seem like enough. I would also do them in multiple sittings, 25 here, 50 there, etc throughout the day in small time periods. I probably did at least 3000 total before testing. I passed with 75 questions. I did not read every rationale. I read the ones I got wrong.

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Specializes in OBGYN.

i can only do like 100 i think its enough cos the rationals are a lot to remeber

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Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac Floor.
i can only do like 100 i think its enough cos the rationals are a lot to remeber

Yes, and I found that the key is the rationales. At first I felt silly for reading the rationales for the ones I got right, but I'm glad I followed advice and did it!:nurse:

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:clown: Yes I agree, 100 is best for me. But like everyone said previously, everyone is different. I'm still reading rationales to those I got right and trying to understand everything..I really hope this works!! Goodluck to everyone taking their boards, and thanks to everyone who posted in this thread. :loveya:
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Oh yeah Windy!! How long of a time frame did you do before you took the Nclex??

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