lacking motivation for Nclex.. :(

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I don't know if I lack motivation of is too lazy to study, I have a routine to do a 100sets of q&a daily but i often feels sleepy after answering around 30-40 question. I haven't reach my goal of answering the 100 question in a specific time without leaving the chair. What can i do?? i need to prepare for the nclex exam as i know it would be soon since my cgfns status is "ready for review", i need to be prepared till my exam date so that i won't tell myself when the date come of how much information and studying i still need to take the exam.:crying2:

I'm using my own RadBSN study plan! They gave us a 3 week one at school and I kind of based mine off of that. Week 1 was Med-Surg and Pharm, Wk 2 Peds & Psych, Wk 3 Leadership & Maternity. I've kind of switched it up because I feel pretty comfortable with the Maternity and Leadership. I also want to spend more time on Med-Surg and Pharm so I've been studying those chapters more intensively and making notecards on labs, foods that have Phosphorous or whatever.

The Saunders CD gave me a 6 week study plan and just said what chapters to do each day. I didn't like that so I just set up my own. I took a few comprehensive Med-Surg ATI tests and then assigned certain subjects to certain days focusing on the stuff I know I don't know.

I try doing my own schedule when it comes to studying for the exam, but it didn't go out so well.

Saunder's study plan bore me at times, specially the one week pharma i endured. But i did finished reading the whole textbook which i think was good.

I'm currently answering q&a from saunders then when i'm done i'll be doing Lacharity's prioritization which is a good book what most of my friends who took and passed the exam told me.

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POST the date of your exam on the wall at your desk, or whereever you study. 'then cross out the days that would wont be able to study, if you have to work or something. then count how many free days you have to study. the reality may surprise you, its coming fast. Do the questions!!!!!! Turn off the tv and think, this is my meal ticket, you CANT MESS THIS UP!!!

I don't have an exam date yet since I'm having problem with my CES application. My school have been sending the wrong or incomplete document to CGFNS which is taking my time and money for sending those documents. But i think this is a great idea, specially with the anxiety for the exam everyone would be motivated to study for the exam even late at night.

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How long is everyone giving themeslves to study? I am freaking out...I scheduled for Feb 1st....After reading some posts on here I feel like people are studying for like 6 months... I will be studying mon-fri until the 1st and doing 100 questions a day on the weekends...I have been doing around 100 questions a day since Christmas..it should be a refresher not a repeat of school, Right?! ahhh (panic attack)

I have been studying for the exam since May 2010 because i was hoping that i'll be taking the exam before dec 2010, turns out i'd be taking the exam a little bit longer than planned. I'm answering 100 question a day, five times a week. Then i do some research for some topic i'm not sure of.

Good luck to your exam.

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How do you study for pharmacology?? With all those drugs, interventions and side effects how can i remember them all?? any tips?

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Specializes in "Wound care - geriatric care.

I did 60 questions in 60 minutes per day. You don't need to do anymore than that. Ounce you reach 65% and above you are ready to go...get an assortment of questions from different books

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Specializes in Psych.

FWIW, here's what I did. I scheduled the exam exactly one week from when I decided to start preparing for it. I then borrowed three NCLEX practice exam books and read the questions in them, taking some notes as I went on things I got wrong on areas I wanted to review. That was it. I was glad I didn't spend any more time on it. And I figured the worst case if I failed would be having to shell out an additional 200 dollars to take it again. (I didn't.)

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