Maternal/Infant Percentage on NCLEX

NurseLil-lea · Sep 8, 2011

They don't give a certain percentage on each type of question/subject that the NCLEX will have. You just need to be fully studied on all the content. If you know the content, you should be able to answer the questions on the NCLEX. Good Luck! :)

StuNN · Sep 10, 2011

Yes, but still some percentage must come from maternal/infant. I am wondering on average how many maternal/infant questions there would be on a test. I know they don't give this information so I am wondering more about who has taken the test and how many they got.

NurseLil-lea · Sep 10, 2011

the questions for the nclex test come from a question bank. you could have a number of different questions (they are totally random). each test is different, where you may have a certain type of question, another person would have something totally different. it would be hard to decipher what the percentage is for each subject will be. i did not receive maternal/infant type questions on my test and i did not even receive pharm calculation questions. if you read at the beginning of your saunders book, it tells a percentage you need to get for each category and that is it, no individual layouts. you will still have to study each subject/area; you just simply do not know what type of questions that they will give you for your test! best of luck to finding the percentage they give on the nclex test for maternity/infant. :uhoh3:

EricJRN, MSN, RN · Sep 10, 2011

A problem that you'll run into is that the NCLEX Candidate Bulletin specifically forbids Internet posts about a candidate's exam content. This is a very visible public forum that often pops up at the very top of a Google search, which makes it a particularly bad idea for people to tell you about what was on their exams.

NCSBN does provide us with some info though. If you look at the Detailed Test Plan, you'll notice that (at least for the RN exam) health promotion and maintenance will make up 6-12% of the exam. This is an area where you are particularly likely to see antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn questions, according to the bulleted subcategories listed in the test plan.

Of course that doesn't mean that you'll get 6-12% maternal/infant questions. You'll get numerous health promotion questions that are not related to moms and babies. And you could easily have maternal/infant questions under the pharmacology or physiology categories. But it seems like this is as much information as you can legally obtain about your question.