HURST Qreviews grading

kv07 · Jun 22, 2012

Okay so here's where I'm confused.. After you finish a test it says successful attempt or unsuccessful.. I was curious about how this reflects your readiness or what percentages are good or bad... It's confusing to me..
Please reply if ya had successful attempts with hurst q reviews and passed the first time and how your experience was with hurst in comparison with the NCLEX.
Thanks guys :)

I just took my NCLEX today :) and did Hurst Review! with Saunders Book and Kaplan Exam Strategies book.

I liked it because the simplicity of the content put out there. Coming out from the exam, I truly felt....if you knew your content, you would have no problem! My only real issue was that I passed the 75 Q mark and went to 200-something questions before it shut off, I started freaking out because I was in the 200 question mark and that's when I felt hypoxic HAHA and couldn't focus as well as I knew I could. But I did the Pearson Vue trick and got the "good pop up".

I took 5 of the 6 Hurst Q Reviews 3 days before taking the NCLEX today. I was freaking out about percentages too (even though Hurst people told us not too!) but after taking the NCLEX, I am stressing to you...do NOT stress over the percentage on these Q reviews. If you can go back and really review and understand the rationales on the questions you missed and go over that section in the book if you still don't understand the question, you will be just fine. My averages on the 5 Hurst Q reviews were in the mid 80's out of 125 questions...which is about 60-something percent (that's why I was freaking out! but was trying to keep in mind about how they told us to not focus on the percentage).

Good luck to you.

tx05 · Jun 22, 2012

I just took the NCLEX for the first time Wednesday afternoon. My test stopped at 75Q and I got the good popup, so hopefully I'll have good news Friday afternoon.

I did the Hurst review as well and over the past week I did all six of my Qreviews. I also got around 85-95 right on each one (which is around 65-75% correct). Like the person above said, the most important thing is to take each one and then be sure to read and the study rationales for each question, even the ones you got correct.

I believe one of the lectures says that if you are getting at least 50% right on the qreviews, you are in good shape. I also read somewhere on this site that Kaplan also says that getting over 50% on practice tests is a good sign.

Good luck!

CCLegnon · Jun 22, 2012

Kv07: Is it worth to subscribe with the Hurst review?Im taking to enroll but i have no money by this time..I find Hurst as the cheapest review online.

kv07 · Jun 22, 2012

Kv07: Is it worth to subscribe with the Hurst review?Im taking to enroll but i have no money by this time..I find Hurst as the cheapest review online.

Are you talking about the live or online hurst? The online one, it's completely independent work...meaning you do it all yourself (someone is not there physically lecturing) and I believe you have to print the handouts yourself (not 100% on this but I am assuming you have to). But there are ALOT of handouts to print out if you choose this option.

I did the live hurst review, where I went to a lecture on my campus for 3 days straight from 8-4pm. And then after those 3 days, there are 2 days of more materials I had to listen to on their website by myself. Plus, the live review comes with an actual book, where I didn't have to print anything out with my own ink/printer.

I'm a visual learner so being in an actual lecture helped me. I don't think I would have done as well If I had done just the online hurst. But we are all different types of learners so whatever your learning style is, you should think about if you would rather do the online hurst independently or the live hurst in a lecture setting.

I really liked hurst though. It was just straight up content that was very simple. But please don't think that you can just listen to these hurst lectures once and know it, it took me a lot of time and dedication to really review each system and each day out of the hurst book to know my stuff and understand it. Comparing my hurst review book to my saunders review book....the saunders book is overloaded with material/content and again, hurst is simple and straight forward.