Kaplan scoring and NCLEX prep???

[Shannon BSN RN]

Hi all,

I am doing questions from Kaplan's Qbank nightly and was wondering what is a "good" score on these? I usually score about 65-70%. Is this ok or should I be working a little harder. I am currently waiting for my ATT(graduated May 18:yeah:), but nervous to take boards. How many questions are you guys doing daily to prepare for NCLEX? What type of preps are you doing? Any feedback would be appreciated!

Thanks a bunch,

Shan:bugeyes:

[jmCARing4u, BSN, MSN]

Hello ShanMT2bRN. I took the Kaplan course and did all those Qbank and ranged from mid 50s to mid 70s so with me, it really fluctuated. My average though was in the 60s. I actually think you are in pretty good shape considering I just found out I passed today. What happened with me was that at first I did tons of questions each day, like 150 to 200 but realized I should be pacing myself and allow myself to have qbank questions up until at least 2 days before my actual test. So I ended up doing about 50-100 per day. After I did those qbank questions, I reviewed my answers and actually took notes. I reviewed the kaplan coursebook as much as I could and also turned to Saunders review book. With that book, however, I focused more on doing the tests after each chapter and also did the comprehensive test. Basically throughout my studying, I secluded myself in my cousins' attic and studied from about 10am till 6 pm with about half an hour break for lunch. I wanted to get myself away from all the distractions.:chuckle Anyways, hope this helps!

[futurecnm]

I am in the midst of studying right now. I am not doing Kaplan however (cost too much) so I have to motivate myself!! I am basically using the Saunders comprehensive NCLEX review book, CD that came with it, and a Lippencott CD I have from someone. I am going through Saunders and doing all the tests following the chapters. I do not have time to read through all the chapters but I go back and look up stuff if I do not know it for the test. I have made up a schedule so I finish up the book test about a week before my NCLEX exam. I then do CD questions daily. I range anywhere from 100-250 questions daily (that is the book questions + the CD). I am leaving my last 4 days to do practice tests on the CD's I have. I will continue to do those up until a couple days before. I will probably just study lab values those last couple days and probably take the last day before my test totally off. I am aiming for about 75% on all tests and if I don't get that I try to really read the rationales etc. I have gotten from 65% up to 88% on the ones I've done on my CD. I find Saunders easier than Lippencott questions. Not sure why. I know many are doing a kaplan course this week and it would have been nice but I feel I'm sticking to my schedule and keeping up with questions. hopefully it will work out for me!