I feel like burning most the LVN review books I bought as they did me no good what-so-ever on the NCLEX. The questions I got came out of left field. Stuff that wasn't taught in school like post mordum care for jewish men and questions about the Buhdist faith. I couldn't believe the questions I got. It felt like I guessed at half the questions. What a terrible feeling I have now. I have went threw the ENTIRE Saunders LNV review book and cd TWICE, that's 6,000 questions, as well as the kaplan review book, "lvn made easy", and the mosby cd. Total review questions and rationales done exceeded 8,000. Yet it didn't help me at all. Yes I read the rationales for ALL the questions/ answers. The NCSBN.ORG review was the only thing that helped me as the questions were similar to the NCLEX.
The VAST majority of question were priority questions. I had learned all the tricks to answer these in the Kaplan book. Only one big problem....the priority questions in kaplan are a complete joke (very easy) compared to the actual NCLEX ones which were brutal.
My computer shut off at 85 and I am positive I got the 85th question wrong because I looked it up when I got home. I hear if the computer stops at 85 and you miss the last question ...you most likely failed if you weren't doing so hot. I wanted to throw up when I left the testing center.
So hear I sit and have to wait 3 weeks to get result in CA. I will start checking the LVN board website next week, but I have a bad feeling my name won't be up there and I will have to take the NCLEX again.
Congratulations BigB!!!!! I also live in Palmdale, California. I take the NCLEX on 2/16/05. I just finished Delmar NCLEX and am halfway through Mosby's. Should I just throw it away, based on what you said. I did not get Kaplan, but maybe I should, only have four weeks left and am so nervous. Since we do not have access to the quick result option (two days to find out if you passed) how did you find out and how long did it take. California is the slowest I guess from what I've read. Thanks for any advice you can give. I was getting 80's on my review tests until I got to the pharmacology in Mosby's and only got 71%. Now I'm worried I won't pass this thing. How hard was it????? Thanks for any help. Nervous Older Nursing Student in California
Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Since we do not have access to the quick result option (two days to find out if you passed) how did you find out and how long did it take. California is the slowest I guess from what I've read.
I took NCLEX-PN on December 28 and received my result in the mail from the California B.O.N. on January 9. All in all, it took about 12 days.
I took my LPN boards in Jan '05...i had just come down with the flu the night before and had a temp of 102 but insisted on taking my boards. I had ALL sorts of questions...204 questions at that! here in NY we have those fill in the blank and check all that apply.... those are nerve wrecking.:uhoh21:
I found out 2 weeks later i passed. I always felt that even in high school, if you walked out of a test thinking the utmost worst, chances are you did just fine.
Commuter, do you know where you want to work yet? They say we should do one year of med surg, but our hospital up here has a patient ratio of 1 LVN to 12-14 patients and that scares me, unsafe!!!!! I'm hoping all the hospitals are not like that???
Not sure if this question was directed at me , but i'll jump on it heheh. I found mosby a waste of time. I went threw the book and cd multiple times and didn't see anything in them on the nclex, just regurgitated nursing content that I had learned in school. I found the Kaplan RN, yes RN book, to be very very helpful on the NCLEX _PN exam. I cannot recommend http://www.ncsbn.org "learning extension" enough...that review helped me ace the NCLEX with 85 questions. I am from sacramento, ca.
Where exactly on this site do I go to look for what helped you out? I printed off the NCLEX-PN test plan.
New to this site. LOL that everyone here sounds and feels just like me and if one more person tells me they know I passed I'm gonna scream. My test shut off at 96. Thirty of which were pharm questions. Im seriously going crazzzzy. What web site can you look at to get your results if your from Cali? Or is it true I have to be tortured for two more weeks?
There is no website for people taking the NCLEX _ PN to find out. I had to wait 26 days of torture and misery not knowing if I passed. But my classmates "only" had to wait 18 days for thier passing result.
Congratulations BigB!!!!! I also live in Palmdale, California. I take the NCLEX on 2/16/05. I just finished Delmar NCLEX and am halfway through Mosby's. Should I just throw it away, based on what you said. I did not get Kaplan, but maybe I should, only have four weeks left and am so nervous. Since we do not have access to the quick result option (two days to find out if you passed) how did you find out and how long did it take. California is the slowest I guess from what I've read. Thanks for any advice you can give. I was getting 80's on my review tests until I got to the pharmacology in Mosby's and only got 71%. Now I'm worried I won't pass this thing. How hard was it????? Thanks for any help. Nervous Older Nursing Student in California
Yes , Kaplan RN book and http://www.NCSBN.org learning extention are the only two reviews that I noticed that helped me get my LVN license. Mosby, Suanders etc is just regurgitated nursing content I learned in school.
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Con grats BIG B. You deserve it? Now Go Buy You Something Nice!!!! :biggringi