Low scores?

This site is SUCH a blessing!!!! I found so many good mnemonics and tips which truly helped me on the NCLEX. First of all, I just wanted to say I kind of struggled through nursing school. I had slight testing anxiety. My ATI predictor test said I only had a 68% chance of passing boards...which made me pretty depressed. I talked to my advisor and I told her I wanted to take a Kaplan course and had lots of friends who recommended it. I DEFINTELY PASSED BECAUSE OF KAPLAN. Although the Kaplan qbank questions and qtrainers were WAYYYYYYYY harder than the real NCLEX, I felt soooo much more prepared!

I did about 5,200 practice questions from 12/22/09 till 02/01/10. I socially isolated myself from everyone on the weekdays and studied at a Barnes and Nobles. I recommend Saunders Comprehensive for content review. It's easy to understand, but do all of Kaplan's questions. Since I had access to the ATI tests from school, I did a lot of their questions, as well. My school said to do about 3,000-5000 prac questions. Since I knew I struggled with nursing tests, I wanted to do at least 5,000.

Here are my Qtrainer scores (only putting it up here to show you that I didn't do TOO well and that reading EVERY rationale is sooo good!!! Esp for QTrainers 6+7)

DIAGNOSTIC: 62

READINESS: 66

QT1: 50

QT2: 64

QT3: 45

QT4: 58

QT5: 65

QT6: 58

QT7: 60

Qbank: 60%, with 100% completed....DO ALL THE QUESTIONS! YOU PAID SO MUCH FOR THEM! USE THEM!!! READ RATIONALES!!!!!!

I tested on the 4th and had 75 questions. Finished in about an hour and a half. Felt sure about some of my answers. Totally guessed on the unknown med questions. Had 15-20 SATAs, 1 math, a bunch of meds, no OB/psych/peds.

The day before my test, I wanted 'Yes Man' J ...I looked over a couple things and relaxed. I tried to get to bed early, but was a little worried. I woke up a couple times during the night, which sucked..but it wasn't too bad. Got to the testing center about 35 mins before my time..felt good...told myself that I was going to kick this test in the butt! BE CONFIDENT! YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO IT! REMIND YOURSELF WHENEVER YOU FEEL DOWN!!!!!

Did the PVT the second I came home, got the good pop-up! CHECKED MY BOARD 24 HOURS AFTER, AND I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

DO LOTS AND LOTS OF PRACTICE QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN DO IT =)