Just Passed NCLEX-PN 2015 - 85 questions

Published Oct 6, 2015

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I wanted to share (hooray) and just tell my story on passing in case it helps someone else :)

I was in accelerated RN program in Florida in 2013. Unfortunately, half way through the program financial aid refused to give me any more money and we had used most of our savings already for school, so I had withdraw from the program. Fast forward a year later and an RN friend mentioned to me that I could challenge the LPN exam for FL since I completed half of the RN program. It took me close to 6 months to get it approved through my school, but eventually they saw I was serious and decided to approve me to sit for the exam.

I started studying at the beginning of the summer. I used Saunders comprehensive review and read the entire thing along with doing the practice tests at the end of each section. I also used the Kaplan Strategies, Practice, and Review book, which I thought had great tips. RN friends recommended I use the Kaplan Qbank so I purchased that about 2 weeks ago and have been doing 85 question exams every night. I only had about 100 unused questions left. I consistently scored around 62% on the exams.

I took the NCLEX-PN yesterday at 2pm and the computer shut off at 85 questions. Florida already had my test results by 8am this morning (yay, Florida) and I passed! I feel the Kaplan Qbank is really what helped me the most. The NCLEX questions felt very similar to the Kaplan ones and I felt really at ease once I started the exam and realized it was almost like taking my Qbank tests at home. So glad I finally took and passed :)