Hi everyone! I am scheduled to take my NCLEX next week friday January 25th. I am super nervous ! I have been waking up everyday at 6 in the morning to complete 75 questions of UWORLD and remediate and then before bed another 75 questions. My school made us buy the Kaplan QBANK so I have also done that. These are my following results for Kaplan:
Diagnostic: 55.6%
Overall average of the QBANKS: 60.5%
Trainer 1: 59%
Trainer 2: 61%
Trainer 3: 59%
Trainer 4: 57%
Trainer 5: 66%
Trainer 6: 64%
Have not done trainer 7.
Readiness: 67%
On UWORLD I have done a total of 12 exams all 75 questions. I am in the 91 percentile but I am not sure how much I should believe that? I am thinking of not doing trainer 7 for kaplan and just focus on doing my UWORLD exams and continue going over all their rationales until my test date. I am planning on doing the self assessment for UWORLD this friday, exactly one week before my test.
What do you guys think? Should I do trainer 7 for kaplan or just stick to UWORLD? For those who already took the NCLEX, would you say the questions were more like UWORLD or kaplan? and are my scores good enough? Should I trust UWORLD and my 91 percentile?
Any feedback will help and be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
To the OP. With those scores, you're good to go. Darn , you could take it right now and pass. I test the 26th using ATI and Uworld. Be confident, and kinda focus on relaxing so anxiety doesn't get the better of you.
Wow that made me feel great, haha. I don't want to get too confident though! But yes, the anxiety is what I need to work on the most. Thanks and good luck!☺️
Hello! I used both Kaplan & Uworld. I also had Hurst. I took nclex yesterday and waiting for the result. ? Personally, Uworld & Hurst helped me on contents. In UWorld you get an explanation on what each choices is about. If you think you’re still lacking on content, continue using UWorld.
Kaplan is more on application in my opinion. It will guide you how to answer questions. Like if the question is “which statement requires follow up?” It teach you that this type of question is asking you which is the wrong statement. Then you will do the true or false strategy to eliminate the correct statement since you’re looking for a wrong statement.
Based on our instructor from my kaplan live class you have to aim for at least 60% on readiness test. And 67% is above it. So I guess it would be good if you do the QT 7. It has 265 questions where you can also check yourself on how you can maintain calm and focused if you’ll get the entire 265.
Hello! I used both Kaplan & Uworld. I also had Hurst. I took nclex yesterday and waiting for the result. ? Personally, Uworld & Hurst helped me on contents. In UWorld you get an explanation on what each choices is about. If you think you’re still lacking on content, continue using UWorld.
Kaplan is more on application in my opinion. It will guide you how to answer questions. Like if the question is “which statement requires follow up?” It teach you that this type of question is asking you which is the wrong statement. Then you will do the true or false strategy to eliminate the correct statement since you’re looking for a wrong statement.
Based on our instructor from my kaplan live class you have to aim for at least 60% on readiness test. And 67% is above it. So I guess it would be good if you do the QT 7. It has 265 questions where you can also check yourself on how you can maintain calm and focused if you’ll get the entire 265.
Good luck! ?
I have decided not to do it because I want to focus on UWORLD since it gives me better content! Before graduation we did a Kaplan Exit Exam where it imitated NCLEX in that it is computer adaptive and a minimum of 75 and a max of 265.. I passed, but with 265 QUESTIONS! I was not calm and freaking out but I don't think it was because I was drained, but because I was so nervous I did not know when it was going to stop and whether or not I was going to pass. That is one of the reasons I wanted to do trainer 7 to test out another 265 questions, but since I know it is 265 no matter what I do not feel it will have the same effect, also, I really want to finish all of UWORLD's questions first. So if I finish earlier than anticipated I might do it just to check out how I score again with 265. Thanks! and Good luck I bet you rocked it. Let me know!
Does anyone have the 35 pages nclex study guide you can send me that everyone is talking about?!?!
Go to this link. The link to the post the study guide is in is in one of the first replies. That link will take you to a new All Nurses post. The study guide link is on that page, right below the video. If you go to the link I am providing, I have a post that I made for that person that provides a pic with an arrow pointing at which link is the study guide. Good luck on the NCLEX! ?
nursealiii, BSN, RN
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Wow that made me feel great, haha. I don't want to get too confident though! But yes, the anxiety is what I need to work on the most. Thanks and good luck!☺️