Just did finished NCLEX (HURST and KAPLAN)

[Walkingbad]

So I just finished the NCLEX today, got about 15-20 SATA, maybe even more... about 10 dreaded medication questions, and the rest was priority, delegation, management, and a nice amount of infection control.

I graduated in the beginning of May and I did the live Hurst review in the middle of May,2014. Between that time I took and break and at the end of May i ended up going to North Carolina to go mountain biking with my Girlfriend and her parents. I watched the remainder of the Hurst videos (peds, maternity, ect. during the trip) After the trip and end of May beginning of June i really started getting down to business.

I started with the Saunders book 5th ed. I read around 200-250 pages and got extremely tired of it... never really opened it again after that. I did use their CD and did about 500-600 questions at first... but i thought they were pretty easy and didn't bother with them. Scoring around the 70-80% with these questions

I then reviewed the Hurst booklet by myself, and a week later i watched the Hurst review Online videos all over again. After going over a specific process i would do questions out of the Lippincott Q&A book for that disease/system i went over in Hurst. Lippincott has hard questions and i was scoring any where between 59- 72%. Depending on what subjects. I did most of the Med-surg portion in the lippicott, didn't touch maternity or Peds.

My school also provided us with ATI, i tried doing the practice tests and looking at the review your content... but the ATI questions seemed a little outdated and the review content was extremely boring. I did get a 70% on my predictor exam in school though.

About a week and a half left till my nclex i started doing my Hurst Q review tests and i got

86

85

84

88

88

89 out of 125). So i did fairly well on those.

I was able to do some Q review questions and the readiness tests as well.

Q1 72

Q2 57

Q3 62

Q4 63

Q5 67

Q6 68

didnt do Q7

readiness 67

Some days i was doing hurst and kaplan q reviews on the same day... I wouldn't recommend this, it took me 8-9 hours to do the tests and go over the rationals sometimes. I did spend 8-9 hours everyday in front of the computer for about 4 weeks straight with at least 5-6 hours of decent studying while the other messing around facebook, reddit, movies, blah blah..

Day before my nclex, hung out with girlfriend in the morning, played a couple of games Fifa with my buddies and went home watch some Curb Your Enthusiasm and fell asleep around 1-2am (my nclex was at 2pm and I'm more of a night owl who can't fall asleep early) Woke up in the morning ate some breakfast, watch USA vs Germany game. And left for my nclex, got 81 questions was out by 3:15pm. I tried the PVT and got the good pop-up and going to do the quick results once i get the option

[yedwards42, BSN, MSN]

Congratulations!! Glad you knocked NCLEX out and passed. :)

I have a few q's if you don't mind. I took HURST, have Kaplan online and Qbank/Qtrainers and Saunders. Sounds like you concentrated on HURST and Kaplan the most - did you find these two resources beneficial/best? I have Saunders and do read it for clarification (or if I want extra information) though reading a 1,000 page book entirely does seem like a lot. I also like to "hear" the information hence the HURST classes and videos (and Kaplan videos). Did you feel the HURST content was helpful/applicable to the actual NCLEX? Kaplan q's? In general, did you feel most of the questions on NCLEX were similar to Kaplan and/or were questions you were familiar (or could eliminate 1-2 answers off the bat)? I'm trying to gauge "how hard" NCLEX really is or how it compares to resources.

Thanks so much. Congrats again!!!

[Walkingbad]

Congratulations!! Glad you knocked NCLEX out and passed. :)

I have a few q's if you don't mind. I took HURST, have Kaplan online and Qbank/Qtrainers and Saunders. Sounds like you concentrated on HURST and Kaplan the most - did you find these two resources beneficial/best? I have Saunders and do read it for clarification (or if I want extra information) though reading a 1,000 page book entirely does seem like a lot. I also like to "hear" the information hence the HURST classes and videos (and Kaplan videos). Did you feel the HURST content was helpful/applicable to the actual NCLEX? Kaplan q's? In general, did you feel most of the questions on NCLEX were similar to Kaplan and/or were questions you were familiar (or could eliminate 1-2 answers off the bat)? I'm trying to gauge "how hard" NCLEX really is or how it compares to resources.

Thanks so much. Congrats again!!!

The HURST content was helpful in a way i suppose... However to tell you the truth... i did not have as much "content" questions on Nclex. However, everyones test is different so you might have a lot of questions asking specific content. The Hurst Q trainers were pretty good but unfortunately they only give you 6 of them.

I came a hold of kaplan the week before my nclex, the only videos I watched was the decision tree video I've been hearing so much about. I didn't use once during my NCLEX. But i heard it is really helpful for other people. The Questions and the Qtrainers create a good foundations i guess on how to answer nclex questions. They help you get into the grove on answering "Nclexy".

If you have time... You can go over the Saunder book i suppose. My girlfriend who also is in nursing went over it during her last month of school.. it took her about a month and a half... but shes a crazy nerd who likes to know every little detail. I looked in it for clarification on something. But i had a pretty good base on content information already.