kaplan book - 27 online questions (free)

gwafuh_rn, BSN, RN · Jun 14, 2008

what book?the course book or the one that comes with a cd? If I were you,I'll purchase the q banks

ladybugsea · Jun 14, 2008

The one that comes with the cd. There's a little sidebar that says visit this website for a Qbank sample of alternate questions. I'm hoping I did so poorly because it was SATA, although I have done SATAs at the RN 3500 website and get at least half right. Ahhhh, this is not helping my test anxiety at all!!

selby08 · Jun 14, 2008

I graduated mid-may. The ATI that I did not study for said I had a 99% chance of passing NCLEX. I took it on June 9, had 75 questions and passed.

I studied with that Kaplan book that you have. The test in the book I got 70% and the one on the CD I got 75%. I also completed Suzanne's first tip but didn't do the program because I didn't have the 45 days that are necessary. Even her first tip is incredibly helpful and I learned a TON. To study for the SATA I got a book called NCLEX-RN 250 New Format Questions. It wasn't the greatest book but it was ALL new format, which I really needed help with.

Anyway, I'm glad I did because on my 75 question test I'm betting about 35 were SATA. Anyway, I am terrible at SATA, got a bunch of them and still passed!

Try not to freak out too much- it is a big test but it is still just a test. The only power it has is the power you give it. You graduated from nursing school, you did your clinicals. You have all the knowledge you need and I know that reading Kaplan helped me to apply the knowledge I had to the crazy NCLEX questions.

This phrase always helps me on tests: You know all the answers, it's the questions you haven't seen yet.

Remember that, study as much as you can, take a deep breath and you can do it. And no matter what then you can tell yourself I did the best that I could in the time that I had. GOOD LUCK!!!

ladybugsea · Jun 15, 2008

Thanks, Selby. You're right, it is just a test, I don't have to give it power over me. I really have to get in the mindset that it doesn't matter, in the worst case I will just take the test again until I pass! I did Suzanne's tip but like you don't have the 45 days to do the plan. I only got 65/69 on those Kaplan tests in the book, I was so surprised that I scored so low since I did so well in school and on ATI (lots of level 3s).