My advice to pass Nclex- on a budget

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I just wanted to share my experience with you all since I have come to this site for advice/guidance on how to pass Nclex many times..

I took my nclex with 88 questions in MA june 30th and found out I passed today!

I took a 5 day review course (I needed a refresher) and used Nclex Mastery App ($30 on iphone)...I HIGHLY recommend this app, the questions are very similar to what I received on the exam, most of them harder! I also recommend using Lippincott's pass point free 2 week trial, I used that everyday for a week before my exam. Take the practice nclex exams...the formatting is also similar to nclex. This program tells you what you need to improve on..I achieved a mastery level of 8 on my exam reports.

Also a few days before my exam I did Kaplan Q trainer 7, which I found on quizlet for free...these questions make you think!! yet much harder than the nclex. There is also a free Kaplan question app for iphone that was quite helpful and has 140 Q's.

I used youtube to help me study as well, SimpleNursing has many great helpful videos and there are many nclex review videos on there!

There are many resources I used without spending a lot of money preparing for this exam...I studied for about three weeks.

Overall, my exam was mostly content/health promotion q's and I had about 5-6 SATA...the rest multiple choice. I found it fairly easy, since Nclex Mastery and Lipincott's passpoint questions prepared me so well.

I also recommend this prayer: St Joseph of Cuptertino...a special prayer for before exams!!

Also...the Pearson Vue trick still works wonders!! definitely calmed my nerves while I waited for my quick results.

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I found PassPoint to be the most useful NCLEX resource I had. My school is considering it (maybe the dept isn't happy with the ATI, who knows?), so my class got access for free during our last sem and over the summer. In this case, it was a good thing to be the guinea pig!

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I like the Nclex mastery app too. Get on their email list, sometimes they have it on sale for 15.

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