I passed! Meh Kaplan Scores... PVT still works...

NurseJessicaB · Jan 29, 2017

A little background about me. I've been a Psychiatric LPN for 8 years. I passed the NCLEX-PN on the first try.

I graduated with my ADN December 2016.

Upon receiving my Authorization to Test, I scheduled my NCLEX for February 14^th. I was incredibly apprehensive about taking the NCLEX. My anxiety was off the charts. I thought that this would give me ample time to review.

My review consisted of JUST taking questions. No content reviewâ€¦ JUST questions. Mainly Kaplan, but some NCLEX Mastery on my phone.

With each passing day my anxiety grew WORSE. My self-doubt intensified. So much in fact that I woke up on Thursday January 26^th and logged onto the Pearson Vue website. I selected the hyperlink to change my test date. I reviewed the available test dates and I knew which one I HAD to pick. I selected Friday January 27^th.

Yup I changed my NCLEX to the VERY NEXT day. I moved up my test more than 2 weeks. My Kaplan scores weren't stellar, but the mental pain that I was inflicting upon myself was unbearable. I NEEDED to be done. At this time, I hadn't even taken my readiness exam yet!

I got out of orientation at 4:30 pm on Thursday. I came home and took my Readiness exam. I scored a 66.1%, if you look at the chart this predicted that I had a 97.9% chance of passing my NCLEX.

I sat for my NCLEX on January 27^th at 2pm. I took a little over 100 questions. I don't remember the final number.

2 hours after I tried the PVT with a Gift Card that had like $11 on it... "Good Popup"... I proceeded to check like 20+ times until getting my quick results today (on a Sunday)...

I PASSED!!!

Here's my Kaplan Breakdown...

Diagnostic A: 55.6%

QT 1: 60%

QT 2: 65.3%

QT 3: 54%

QT 4: 53.3%

QT 5: 54.7%

QT 6: 57%

QT 7: 55.1%

Q Bank: 57% (I completed all but 160 questions. I repeated some that I missed AND Kaplan kicked me off making it look like I didn't reach 98 questionsâ€¦ Therefore, this percentage is NOT accurate).

Readiness: 66.1%

Also utilized the NCLEX Mastery App on my phone. 71% correct, also a skewed number since I repeated missed questions. I still had 1183 questions to go on this app.

I just wanted to share my story. To let you know that it CAN be done with so-so Kaplan scores.