I am freaking out!! I just took Kaplan's Alternate Format Quiz and got a 25% (7/27)!! They were hard and not much time to do them! The wording was very different from the Qtrainers and Qbank! I just put Saunder's 6th Edition (all of the 5th editions are checked out) on hold at my local library and I hope that the 6th has as many practice SATA as the 5th since that I've seen mentioned on here! Does the 6th have a lot?
Any thoughts or comments from those that have taken the Kaplan's Alternate Format Quiz???
I'm testing on August 5th at 2pm and still feel like I had enough to still study and now this disaster!!!
Don't freak out... lol I took that one and got in the high 20s - and I still passed the NCLEX. That alternate test question thing is ridiculous and hard!!!
It depends on the question itself. Look at what the question is asking you. If that question had asked about what the patient BEING TREATED for DKA was at risk for--hypokalemia would be correct. At risk refers to potential problems related ONLY to what the question is asking. The wording is very important. So read carefully and re-read. It's something I had to work on for a while before I took NCLEX. All the best! Also, just a side note, when answering SATA questions, it really helped me to treat each potential answer as a true/false question and eliminate answers based on that. Maybe you already do that, just throwing it out there :)
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Don't freak out... lol I took that one and got in the high 20s - and I still passed the NCLEX. That alternate test question thing is ridiculous and hard!!!