I felt that the NCLEX is not as bad as I thought! Kaplan HARDER

[Finallyrninva]

I have been reading here for sometime...I just took my NCLEX on Monday, I passed with 75 questions. HOnestly, I did not think it was that bad. I think it is more of a mental thing more then anything. It asked basic nursing skills IMO. I was a B-C student in nursing school. I took Kaplan, and I can tell you Kaplan is way harder then NCLEX. I got 6 SATA, 1 Med cal and several pharm....most I never heard of. I used q bank and got mid to higher 50's....... and I also used Saunders...I only did 100 questions a day for a solid 2 weeks..... Good luck to all those who are taking the exam!!

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

Thank you so much for your tips... I will make sure that i use ABC and Maslow...

but one thing i encounter when i do kaplan questions is that they may have oxygen as a answer which seems to be ABC to me, but the answer is to assess first.. did you make sure you were assesing first, especially if assessment was not in described in the stem of your answer? or did you still apply ABC?

You always assess before you implement. If they give you enough info the question to implement then implement but if not then you need to assess first. There are key words in the questions that direct you that its an assessment question.

[2bNurse4life4ever]

thank you for the advice... and in terms of key words , what are the type of key words? what do you do next? is usually a question i encounter.. or what is the most important/essential?.. and this to me doesnt hint me to assessment or implementation, but like you said, i will focus on the stem and look for clues if i have to assess or not.. and when in doubt, i will assess first. Thank you :)

[shoegalRN, RN]

I also took Kaplan and thought Kaplan was harder than NCLEX. I also passed with 75 questions. I walked out with mixed feelings because I thought some questions were way too easy and then I freaked out because they say if you thought NCLEX was "easy", then you possibly have failed.

[SusanneCollins13]

The way you figure out if you have to assess is that you look at your question. If it already told you all the information that you need then likely you implement. However, if the stem is vague in what to is going with your patient then you must assess first.

[laura11]

I did not think the nclex was that bad. I used Saunders and the ncsbn learningtext. I passed with 75 questions. To tell the truth Nclex is nothing like Kaplan and all the books out there The learniing text was closer to it.