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After years of trying to get my eligibility and going thru the processing I finally have my test date.

I am a foreign graduate.

I have 68 days to my exam.

I graduated in 2005.

What is the best review I should get hurst Kaplan or ncsbn?

Thanks. Any study buddy put there?

I am originally from the Philippines.

Mabuhay!

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Depends what you need, Hurst is more core content (simplified and really easy to learn and not boring lectures). Kaplan is more testing strategies, and i heard the content videos can be pretty boring. But they have a huge question bank, when hurst only gives you 6 tests that have 125 questions.

Don't really know anything about ncsbn... I took hurst and have my nclex next week.

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Good luck and Gobless in ur exam

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Did u do Kaplan

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematoloy/Oncology.

I think for being so far out from school, Hurst would be good.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

NCSBN provides core content and questions similar to NCLEX; you can review rationales to the questions and they have the links to the sources.

I have answered questions during NCLEX that were VERY similar to the NCSBN. I known cohorts who ONLY used NCSBN and passed the first time.

If you have 68 days, go with the five week option.

To add:

The issue may not necessarily the source of the review, but how one approaches the NCLEX itself: understanding the four concepts of becoming a competent, entry-level nurse:

1. Safe, effective care;

2.Health promotion;

3.Physiological Integrity;

4.Psychosocial integrity

Will determine WHAT the question is asking you; the question may be Respiratory related-but is it a Health Promotion or a Safety, or a Physiological or a Psychosocial one? Would you know the difference and choose the BEST answer?

Once one understands the concepts of NCLEX, they can do so successfully.

Best wishes.

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Thank you very much for all the info.

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Just wondering where did you apply to take nclex-rn exams? How many years did you wait for your eligibility? I am also from the Philippines and trying to apply for eligibility here in CA, and I am still waiting for the result of the evaluation of BRN. And while waiting for it, I am starting to study because I felt that I have to re-learn alot of stuff from all of those years of being away from school.I graduated 2007 in Cebu. I kinda need a study buddy too, hoping you are just nearby and we can meet up.

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I got denied by CA-BON so I applied here in MN but it took me time to pass the ielts.

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

Hurst! I loved Hurst! I went to a live Hurst review at Southern Adventist University and got 30 days access to their online material included in the $350 fee. I found that watching the videos while following along in my workbook was very effective. I failed the NCLEX-RN on my first attempt, which was embarrassing since I had been an LPN for 12 years. Everyone expected me to pass. I'm so glad I went to the Hurst review, because it became official on June 2, 2014. This former LPN is now a registered nurse! Good luck!

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thank you ladyfree28.i am getting the ncsbn tomorrow

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thank u frawn marie.and congratulations!

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