hurst review nclex study plan advice needed

Yukinara · Feb 18, 2014

I think you have to devise your own study plan, because everyone study differently. My study plan: review content for 4 hours, then spent another 4 hours to do questions and review rationales, all that straight 6 weeks before the test. Can you do that?

mamoli · Feb 18, 2014

thanks yukinara really appreciate it .yes i think i can do that but are you using hurst review.

hope510 · Feb 19, 2014

My advice for you is to study for the Hurst review until you are familiar with the content. Even though Hurst representative said you would only need to study Hurst to pass the Nclex, I wouldn't just study only Hurst. I recommend doing a lot of questions. I had Hurst for content review, but I used the PDA by laCharity to do questions. My friend also recommended NCSBN to do questions (they are the same people who made the Nclex test). The questions format from the website is similar to Nclex questions. Although, i didn't sign up for NCSBN, I did do questions from various sources.

ercquema · Feb 20, 2014

What I did was watch the videos while imputing the info on the pages that they provide, then I watched the videos again without looking at my book, then re-read the notes and understand the material. After I was done, I took the Q reviews. I took the test on 2/11 and got the good pop up with answering 75 questions. I had around 50% SATA. Hurst works!

mamoli · Feb 20, 2014

thank you ercquema and hope510 really like your comments thanks alot ercquema did you any other course beside hurst like q kaplan trainer or ncsbn..

ercquema · Feb 21, 2014

I did do the ncsbn through an app on my iPhone and did an nclex questions through lippencotts, but honestly, I did not learn anything but get used to the alternative formats. Sounds weird, but I am glad I failed once, otherwise I would not have taken hurst and really learned core content. I believe I am a better nurse now because I am now able to explain and understand why things happen and how it got there. And the nclex is all about critical thinking and safety. Obvious answers will not be an option, so therefore you will have to really think different dimensions to get the correct answer. I did well after taking hurst and got atleast 50% SATA, sometimes I got even 3 SATA in a row, and I stopped at 75 too so I was totally impressed afterwards and so glad that I did Hurst. Good luck mamoli !