Kaplan advise please

Turd Ferguson · Jun 7, 2011

I did Kaplan in its entirety in just over three weeks total. This included 4 days of online classroom review (6 hours per day), Diagnostic exam, Readiness exam, Qtrainers 1-7, 3 NCLEX practice tests, and 85% of the Qbank questions. I believe in total I did ~2150 practice questions from Kaplan. You should have a fairly good knowledge of conceptual material before you do Kaplan, as their questions really focus on the strategy instead of the content. Overall a great resource though.

You'd be looking at 150-200 questions/day, which is a good level to be practicing at.

keldel · Jun 7, 2011

kaplan has questions very similar to nclex but i believe hurst condenses the material better...and you can find kaplan questions online for free...just not as many as you get with the course

keldel · Jun 7, 2011

NCSBN has good questions also....ive actually heard that some people got a few identical questions on nclex that they saw on NCSBN review course

caliotter3 · Jun 7, 2011

I think you might want a little more time for the course to "sink" in.

Seas · Jun 7, 2011

I think 3 weeks is enough to prepare.

I used Kaplan's questions and Saunders' content to pass it. Study you weak areas on a good content book; Kaplan if you like it. Then do Kaplan's questions.

EllieMac · Jun 23, 2011

I did sign up for Kaplan on 6/10 after I picked my test date of July 1.

I had always heard that Kaplan was about strategies and the lessons are, but to my surprise -

very pleasant surprise - there are videos that go over each of the areas as well. I have

done the diagnostics and the Qtrainers through 6 and have been in the 60s. The videos have touched

on everything - its like having nursing school shoved into 21 hours of video review. Qbank is also

a nice resource.

3 weeks is alittle tight to be working through the entire Kaplan program but I feel like I am progressing

and things are good.

Thanks for the responses.