I passed in 75 questions!

Published Jul 5, 2015

Jen2010

35 Posts

Specializes in Pediatrics.

Hey everyone!! I'm very excited to say that I passed my NCLEX in 75 questions as of yesterday! The two days after my exam were absolute torture as I decided against using the PVT and wanted to get the actual results.

Just wanted to share what I did to pass :up: My school offered a free live ATI review course. It was 2 days after our graduation too. A rep came to my school for three days and gave us a bunch of free exams to do after, but ATI never really helped me honestly, so I decided to pass on those. The rep, herself, though was excellent and the review was definitely worthwhile. It was very interactive! I took a week off after that and went on vacation :cool:

After that, I studied all the time. I watched hurst videos that a friend shared with me to brush up on content. Overall, that took me about three or four days to complete. I printed up my own workbook through Staples for about $30 and it helped to have the notes during the lectures. They were definitely interesting and full of great information! I would really recommend watching her videos just for the review of the content. I didn't really use the questions provided.

Kaplan was in June for about 8 days in total. I had two excellent instructors! As I listed in another post, here are my scores:

Diagnostic - 69%

QT1 - 67%

QT2 - 65%

QT3 - 59%

QT4 - 67%

QT5 - 70%

QT6 - 63%

QT7 - 61%

Readiness - 71%

Qbank Avg - 65.7%

As recommended, I finished all of the Q trainers and all of Qbank. Honestly, I found the test to be somewhat easier than the questions on Kaplan. It really threw me off during the test because I thought for sure that meant I was failing! The screen looked very similar to Kaplan's also, so that helped ease my anxiety also.

For more questions, I used a 30-day free trial of UWorld, which was great also! Those questions are difficult and really get you to critically think. The rationales are far better than Kaplan's though, hands down. They go very in depth with their explanations.

I also used Lippincott's Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN. I did three of the comprehensive exams and did a bunch of questions throughout each chapter. I liked how the book was split into each body system and it was further categorized from there. Overall, lots of information!

And lastly, I used NCLEX Mastery App on my phone while I was on the go. If I was on line waiting somewhere, at a restaurant (I know, so rude lol), etc. I was always doing questions. I would say overall, I devoted about 10-12 hours a day on answering questions from these various resources. However, my main resource was Kaplan.

My NCLEX didn't have any drag-n-drops, hot spots, ekg strips.. which is why I thought for sure I was failing! I only had about maybe 10 SATA questions and 1 math question. The rest was priority, delegation, etc. I was very surprised, especially after all of the stories I've heard of some people getting over 30 SATA in 75 questions alone. :dead:

To end my lengthy post, I just wanted to thank all of you! This forum really helped me throughout the years!! I wish everyone taking their NCLEX soon good luck! You got this!! :up: