Kaplan Readiness Test - Ready or not?

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Hey there fellow KAPLANeans lol haha

I just want to ask about the Kaplan Readiness test. After all of my online classroom sessions that mostly focus on strategies, I just took it this morning and I'm not sure on what to feel about my score.

With no content review yet - I already did the diagnostic test and question trainers 1 to 3. I received scores around 50's. Then my readiness test score is 57%.

Should I panic or what so? Before I go to Phase 3, I plan to work on my content as I will watch all the Kaplan's content LODs following along with its course book. Are they helpful?

I totally believe that I am not yet ready since I haven't done any content review yet. I just want any suggestions and tips? I really want and need to pass my nclex-rn exam the first time. I would greatly appreciate your comments, experiences, supports and whatever it is to relieve me. Thanks in advance.

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I say don't take it until you take trainers 5 6 and 7, those are more NCLEX style, trainers 1-4 are content based. Based on the test analysis for trainers 5 6 and 7 go brush up, if you're scoring 65% on trainer 6 and 7 you should be good to go! good luck!

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The storm trooper is right, a 57% on the readiness shows that your not far but you have a lot of work to do. This might sound insane but after getting a 64% on my readiness I stopped doing q trainers. Instead I read a chapter a day from the kaplan review book, took notes, then watched the lecture video for that section while following along in the book. After all that I did 50 to a 100 qbank ?'s from each chapters nclex area. If you're dedicated you can kill the book in two weeks it's about 1k pages. When I finished that I felt like I repeated Rn school in 2 weeks. Went back and repeated the readiness and got a 72%. Starting this past monday I did qtrainers 4-7, 1 for each day this week. Scoring 65% and above for each, most important part is that you review every single ? you ever answer. Everyone gets lucky more then we like to admit, but the lucky guesses should be treated like wrong answers during review. The rationales also save you from a lot of digging back through the book. Instead of listening to music or watching tv before bed play the videos. Maybe I went over board but my nclex shut off at 75 today and I passed. I had to read a lot of the ?'s a few times over beacuse they looked so easy. Kaplan was definitely harder but it prepared me for the test. Most importantly do the alternative question quiz in the kaplan LOD, I think you have a better chance of passing if you can string consecutive SATA ?'s together. Oh yea review any content area that you score below 55% on, and top it off with qbank's from the same area. Hunt like a lion to eat like a king, beast the nclex good luck.

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I actually like it. Since I haven't taken the real exam yet, I do not know if I would recommend it. We will see once I passed, hopefully. But what I can say is that choose the online live classroom anywhere course than the on demand course. The classroom anywhere course is more convenient and helpful. Good luck. :)
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I say don't take it until you take trainers 5 6 and 7, those are more NCLEX style, trainers 1-4 are content based. Based on the test analysis for trainers 5 6 and 7 go brush up, if you're scoring 65% on trainer 6 and 7 you should be good to go! good luck!

Noted. Thanks and Congrats! :)

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The storm trooper is right, a 57% on the readiness shows that your not far but you have a lot of work to do. This might sound insane but after getting a 64% on my readiness I stopped doing q trainers. Instead I read a chapter a day from the kaplan review book, took notes, then watched the lecture video for that section while following along in the book. After all that I did 50 to a 100 qbank ?'s from each chapters nclex area. If you're dedicated you can kill the book in two weeks it's about 1k pages. When I finished that I felt like I repeated Rn school in 2 weeks. Went back and repeated the readiness and got a 72%. Starting this past monday I did qtrainers 4-7, 1 for each day this week. Scoring 65% and above for each, most important part is that you review every single ? you ever answer. Everyone gets lucky more then we like to admit, but the lucky guesses should be treated like wrong answers during review. The rationales also save you from a lot of digging back through the book. Instead of listening to music or watching tv before bed play the videos. Maybe I went over board but my nclex shut off at 75 today and I passed. I had to read a lot of the ?'s a few times over beacuse they looked so easy. Kaplan was definitely harder but it prepared me for the test. Most importantly do the alternative question quiz in the kaplan LOD, I think you have a better chance of passing if you can string consecutive SATA ?'s together. Oh yea review any content area that you score below 55% on, and top it off with qbank's from the same area. Hunt like a lion to eat like a king, beast the nclex good luck.

Wow, that's so detailed. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. I gotta work on my content first since I also noticed that I scored around 50's on my diagnostic and QTs 1-3 tests and they are mostly content-based questions. Your hardwork really paid off, I am now dedicated to stick with kaplan, thanks to you. Congrats! :)

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