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It took me under an hour and half for the actual exam and tutorial. I had 87qs and 15 SATAs: half of them were easy, half I was unsure. 4 sequential orders, which were really easy. A couple calculation dosages qs. Most of the 6 medications I just didn't know.. so I wished I had studied/memorized them more, I also wished I hadn't forgotten the major diseases. I marked how many I got on my dry-erase board. I know I got the last maternity question wrong, so it doesn't mean you fail!

I did not take a break, I paused for a minute to close my eyes and deep breathe at q 76.. I kept telling myself, "if it didn't stop at 75 it wasn't meant to be, I'm still in the game." Anxiety exhausted me early, so I just wanted to get out of there by q80. I had egg and toast for breakfast and wore t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops it wasn't cold in the room, if you wanted to know the details, I walked in with only my ATT paper, ID and car keys. I took my palm scan, fingerprint, and picture. I put everything in a personal locker and took the locker key and my ID with me to my cubicle. Read the directions beforehand on ncsbn website, a lady did not have the correct ID and couldn't sit for it. I drove home and immediately went to my computer, requested password change lol, checked PVT and got the "good" pop-up.

I have used Kaplan early on from school, my scores were high 50's, low 60's. I only did 5 tests, I didn't do much of the QBank. I did Hurst lectures only. and Ncsbn for the last 3 weeks; most of the outline, and tests scoring in the 50's. I took a whole month off for myself I was burnt-out. I studied the hardest on the last weeks leading up to my testing date. I have gone over the study-guide that was posted here(with spiderman pneumonics). I have reviewed NCLEX-style questions+rationales from Lippincott, Saunders etc. textbooks throughout nursing school. I thought to myself "this test is hard...but if I'm getting hard questions it must be a good thing." If there are any other qs let me know

Good luck to you all future nurses taking your boards! :nurse:

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CONGRATS!!!

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Thank you!

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Congrats to u:)

I am super nervous right now my test is this Monday

I pray and pray along with study:)

I always get excited when someone post that they pass!

Did you think hurst helps u? Because I am doing hurst review too:)

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What Saunders edition did you use? coz' I'm using the 4th edition..

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How's your Hurst review? I'm thinking of getting their online class. Is it really good?

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Thanks :) Hey, most people go in feeling nervous! :) It's hard to say stop making up scenarios of what's gonna go wrong... after all you only want to be prepared. That was me. Hurst online was my favorite; I only used the video lectures, so I'm sorry I cant comment on the practice tests. It's so organized, which I liked, and the content was the best for me, in my opinion, I could listen on audio or video on my phone.

I didn't own the books but swapped my Lippincott 5ed with a couple classmates with their Saunders, Davis etc. It was yellow so it mustve been the 5th ed. It shouldn't matter that much I mean, the content should be the same and the strategies shouldn't have changed that much.

I liked Hurst very much, it covers important diseases by body system+nursing interventions+rationales, but there is not much on medications. I liked their southern accents too lol

I also did Nclex10k a question a day. You can have them email it to you every day. Free NCLEX-RN Practice Questions | Question of the Day

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Thank you ,

I have a question to u, on the dosage calculation do u have to put the unit when u answer in the box or just the number itself?

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Just the number in the box, the unit of measurement will already be written out for you. Know the conversion chart as well; 1oz = 30ml etc. dosage qs weren't that bad for me

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Thank you so much

I just wanna make sure because the hurst practice test they mark my answer wrong because I only wrote the number in the box without the unit although I got the number right:(

But thank you so much

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Thank you! I'm nervous about the exam. Right now, the only thing that I have is my Saunders

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