My best advice to prepare for Nclex....

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Hi everyone! I've been lurking on this site for years and I have to say I love the info I get from here. First a little bit about me... I graduated in May from a ADN program and I was so relieved and basically just chilled for the summer. Biggest mistake! I study for 3 weeks with ATI before take the Nclex and needless to say I failed at 265 questions near passing on all sections. I'm not saying ATI was not a good program but you really need to do all their questions and read the books. If you are pressed for time then it's not the right route.

After that I decided to get an Nclex book and start reading. I used Hogan and read all of the physiological section. Only the parts highlighted Nclex. I also did healthcare promotion. I did not finish this book due to time but having read the physiological section I felt ok about all systems.

Next I did several chapters in the La Charity book this I did about 11 out of 18 chapters. Very helpful.

I also did all Qtrainer 1 to 7 and maybe 300 qbank questions. I did sample 3 & 4 too.

Took my boards yesterday and the computer shut down around 128 I believe. I still don't have my results but I got the "good pop up", hoping its legit.

Basically the best advice I can give anyone is KNOW YOUR CONTENT! That was my downfall the first time. For example I knew what a fracture was and what an air embolism was but I had no clue that if you have a fracture you are at risk for an air embolism. And Nclex does not ask direct questions, they phrase them in a way that make you breakdown the question to get to the answer. You just have to know the content to work your way through the questions. My test was loaded with priority questions and maybe like 10 SATA. I was relieved cause I suck at SATA but because I had practiced questions in La Charity I was breezing through those priority and delegation questions. Also Kaplan questions are so similar to Nclex it's crazy. I saw questions that were similar to Kaplan just phrased different but answer was the same logic. Also I got a lot of meds none that I knew I had to just guess. I had 4 math that were easy and probably what saved my butt in that section. Anyways I'm still waiting for my official results and I'm super stressed but I wanted to give my story as well. The stories and tips on here have been super helpful!

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This makes me feel so much better this will be my third time taking nclex. The first two times I took nclex I used hurst and I know my content but now I'm taking Kaplan now and I love it my scores are up to the standards I was hoping to hear the Kaplan was very similar in context :).

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My results are in and I passed! pvt does work!

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Thank you for the advise!

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