any ideas please!!!

Somethingcreative · Nov 9, 2009

Here's what I'd do. Make an organized timetable stating what you need to get done in one day and what can wait. Then you'll be able to see just how much time there is to study for your NCLEX.

Chapis · Nov 9, 2009

once i saw someone's post on here that said that studying had to be looked like a full time. set your times from this time to that time, then take your break in between, and go back to studying. hope this helps.

caliotter3 · Nov 9, 2009

The thing about the NCLEX is that you decide when to schedule it. If you want to schedule it after three weeks or three months of prep, that is up to you. Best thing to do is to get a calendar and map out a strategy for study. One chapter, or one body system at a time, however, you want to do it, then stick to your master plan. Good luck.

tlc2u · Nov 10, 2009

Get the newest edition of Saunders NCLEX book. Read the short chapter in the front of the book on test taking skills. Then on one sheet of paper make a list of those strategies. Go through the Saunders NCLEX and do the questions at the end of the chapters. When you answer a question incorrectly use your list of test taking strategies to determine why you chose the wrong answer and which strategy would have helped to choose a correct answer. Use this list and practice questions until it becomes second nature for you to think through the questions this way.

As you practice questions mark in pencil an X by the ones you got wrong and the number of the test taking strategy that would help with that question. When you finish doing the practice questions in the book you will have improved your test taking skills. You will also have determined what you already know and what you ned to read more about or study more by the questions you got right or wrong.

I found it not to be so overwhelming once I seperated out what I already knew from what I needed to read or study more. For me this was better than trying to restudy everything.

Doing the questions in the book might take a couple weeks. Break them down into so many chaptrs a day to complete. The beginning chapters have like 10-20 Q's but the later chapters have 50-60 Q's.

My other idea would be to make yourself an outline of each body system and notations of what you know about this system that you may be tested on as well as notations of what you feel you need to study more. This might help seperate what you know from what you don't know. So you know what to study more.

Hope this helps.

tlc2u