Nclex in 4 days...Nclex Vets, best use of my time left??

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community Health.

I'm so happy for all the people that have been passing this week..It's better to hear that news knowing I'm going next week. I pray for 75, and pray I pass. But I'm ready for the max if I have to. Any RN's that just passed want to make any suggestions on how to best use my last few days? It's wild, one hour I'm psyched and next hour I think I am not prepared. Planning on taking the evening off the night before, and I have a 2pm test time. Thanks in advance for anyone giving pointers.

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I also want to know same things.My test also in 4 days and at same time as you.Good luck I will keep u in my prayers.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community Health.

Thank you I will pray for you as well. Do you have a study plan for your last few days?

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I'm in the same boat. I'm not going to overwhelm myself days before the test. You know the material just believe in yourself. I plan to skim lab values and maybe some pre and postop stuff for certain procedures and do a few more chapters from PDA book. Good luck and WE WILL CONQUER THIS TEST!

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Good luck to you! I recently passed NCLEX RN June 19 with 75 questions, and also wrote at 2pm. The last 5 days before the test I completed about 75 questions a day from Saunders. I feel that these questions prepared me well for the NCLEX. I feel that the biggest thing that helped me in the last few days before writing was focusing on how to read the questions (really focus on what the question is actually asking before jumping to pick an answer) and focusing on the strategies about how to answer the questions helped me through the tougher questions. A tip I read from another post that helped a lot was for the SATA questions. It helped me to go through every answer given and look at it as a true or false question. Other than that, I mainly focused on remembering some common lab values. I truly believe that nursing school has given a good foundation of knowledge. Hope this helps and good luck with NCLEX!

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community Health.

I'm thinking about skimming too, just to keep my head in it. I'm about to take a Kaplan nclex test review/strategy. It starts in 15 minutes, and it's a free, one hour course online through them. I just wish I was more comfortable having an idea what this is going to be like.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community Health.

Congratulations vbach! That's awesome! Did you do the Saunders CD questions? I've been doing their 100 question exams and then reviewing the rationales. Totally agree on SATA with T/F -had an instructor break it down like that halfway through nursing school, and even though it seems like common sense, I would have loved to have that light click during the first half of nursing school haha

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I did the Saunders CD questions (100 questions) once. I just didnt have time for the CD so I stuck with the Saunders chapter questions and then the review test at the end of the book. I am really happy I read that post about the SATA questions, no one ever pointed that out to me! You should do great if you have been doing questions and reading the rationals. Again I can't stress how much taking my time on each questions and really understanding what they were asking had helped me to get the correct answer! And to be honest for a number of questions I sat there staring at the screen, re-reading the question for 5-10mins!

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I know you want to "pass in 75 questions" (everyone does), but the only reason you should not make that your whole end game is that you don't want to have your expectations crushed if you have to do more than 75. Your goal is to pass and if your mental perseverance is squashed purely based on exceeding a specific number of questions, your performance may suffer. You are going for accuracy not speed and definitely not "quantity."

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community Health.

Yeah, I keep telling myself I'm going to put added pressure when I see question 76 on up. I'm trying to vision 265 so that anything less is a bonus.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Telemetry.

I took nclex-RN on Wednesday at 2 PM, shut off at 75 questions. Found out today I passed. I used Hurst for 2 weeks before I tested. It was the only source I used so I can't really recommend anything else.. I think Hurst really helped me, personally. I felt like I already had good test taking strategies, and I really needed to understand the core content and pathyophys which is what Hurst solidified for me. I did use Saunders occasionally during school and liked it for content also. My last day of studying I spent on things like drug classifications, basics of insulin, lab values, EKGs, and infection control. I also did not study peds and ended up getting quite a bit of peds q's. I had a friend get a bunch of OB, and I got maybe 2-3. It's different for everyone. Just be sure you've gone over each topic. I don't think anyone ever feels ready. I sure didn't after only studying for 15 days! But you got through school, you can do this. You WILL see stuff on nclex that you've never heard of. You're not expected to know everything. Good luck!!

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I take mine on Monday at 2pm too. I'm going to expect more than 75q. I feel pretty prepared but still so nervous.

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