IT'S CRUNCH TIME !!

ONE-TWO-- · Jan 24, 2014

I just took the NCLEX yesterday and I studied HURST as well. When mine didn't cut off at 75 I thought, "no big deal...it might cut off around 80" (I had classmates that had that happen to them). Boy I was wrong, after 180 questions I was losing my mind.

I don't know what it was but a majority of the stuff that was on my test was stuff I had hardly seen or never seen at all. Stuff that was only probably covered for like 2-3 minutes in the entirety of my nursing school (ex. Tetralogy of fallot (spelling?)). I had so many priority questions and questions over infection control. Make sure you look over the different type of precautions for different type of illnesses because I literally had around 20-30 of those questions.

I felt like I did horrible and walked out of that test about to throw up. I literally felt like I guessed on 75% of that test. I checked in the car and got the good pop up so hopefully that means I passed.

Word of advice: just take it easy and forget if you did bad on the previous question. Also, don't look around and admire your other classmates that are taking the test with you. Just keep your eyes focused on that computer screen. The moment you look around and see that all the people from your class are gone you will freak out. (Trust me, I did).

nurselori77 · Jan 24, 2014

Thanks ONE-TWO. wow. 180 questions.. yes i would be freaking out as well !!! thanks for the helpful info. i feel somewhat-kind of-ok on priority.. as far as infection control goes. are you meaning like contact vs droplet precautions or am i completely in left field on that? And i was also wondering about the Tetralogy of Fallot and PDA and other stuff (that of course I havent reviewed yet:( ) Did you feel that Hurst was beneficial ? Did anything from the review trigger anything for the exam? I seriously am sick about this !!

Thanks for the info and congrats on the good pop up !!!

ONE-TWO-- · Jan 24, 2014

Yes you are correct about contact versus droplet. A lot of the questions were geared toward that stuff but were phrased like "A nurse is leading a teaching class about infection control. Which of those following should the nurse include?" Some were multiple choice. Others were SATA.

I really can't put my finger on why I didn't feel prepared. I did the HURST review in person and signed up for a second class. That class was full so I ended up being offered the online review and I watched all of those videos. The bad thing that happened to me was that the test seemed to have pretty much all the stuff I didn't think would be on it.

I thought,"surely they will have stuff about Addison's disease, graves, cushings" just an example of course. I only had one question out of 180 about any of those diseases. A lot of it was from stuff that was hardly mentioned or not at all. Granted I didn't go over everything twice. Some stuff like maternity complications I didn't go over at all. But sure enough the NCLEX knew somehow what I didn't study and attacked me at my weak points.

That's not to say all hope is lost. My buddy did the exact same stuff and we even watched almost all the online stuff together. He took the test at the same time and got cut off at 80 questions and didn't think the test was bad at all.