Kaplan Questions harder than the actual NCLEX?

[BlueHearts53]

Hello everyone! So I'm a bit worried because I just took my 10th practice exam on Kaplan and I scored a 49%. It has been like this for all of my other practice exams except on two where I got above 50%. However, I noticed that these practice exams kept asking me "select all that applies" and "place in order from who you would see first to last" questions etc. (on my recent practice exam, I had about 23 out of the 75 questions just like those)

My question is, for anyone who took the NCLEX already, did you guys have a lot of these type of questions and were the questions truly easier than the practice ones? Any kind of response/feedback would be greatly appreciated!!!!

(I'm trying to find the confidence in myself despite the lack of improvements...I haven't done worse on the scores though that's good right? LOL *laughs nervously*)

[niorock]

If you are doing well on the test you should be seeing a lot of SATA...I got like 30 SATA from my first 75 questions alone, if you don't see may SATA, that means you are not doing good..

[PHS0425]

I didn't keep track of exactly how many SATA questions I had, but I think I had more ordered response questions than SATA. I found the Kaplan questions to be fairly comparable. In our class, the Kaplan rep said to aim for a cumulative score of 60% on the q-banks and question trainers, so you may want to try to identify what just isn't clicking for you. Is it a weak content area or are you having trouble eliminating answer choices. Kaplan does have a content review guide and plenty of quick videos, so look at those if you're stuck. But remember that you can't possibly know everything, so it may be most beneficial to focus on testing strategies. I used only Kaplan and passed in 75 questions, so that program obviously worked for me and I'm sure you can improve those practice scores once you figure out where you're struggling.