I'm brand new to this website and to be honest, I found the social network literally this week while I was freaking out over my NCLEX which was scheduled 1/17/2013. Not only did I find some relief from everyone's words of encouragement but I was trying to compare my scores on Kaplan's QTs and Qbanks to everyone else's and it seemed like I had so-so scores so I was realllllly worried about failing since this was my second time taking it. Anyway, I prayed and told God that if I passed, I'd join allnurses.com and release my kaplan QT scores and my status of the exam to hopefully ease someone's stress who might be experiencing similar anxieties as I had just a few nights ago. So here are my scores as followed:
Diagnostic: 54
QT 1 48
QT 2 57
QT 3 55
QT 4 55
QT 5 54
QT 6 55
QT 7 57
Readiness 61
Qbank 56% used 23% of content
So as you can see, my scores for Kaplan were pretty bad, but I took the exam yesterday, ended with 170 questions and passed! I tried the Pearsonvue trick last night and got the good popup. I was still pretty skeptical but I'll be honest, it did relieve some of my anxiety. I decided to sign into my BON website and found out that I had passed this morning! So don't stress over average scores on Kaplan, you can still do it! Good luck to you all! =]
I am just the follow up kinda guy and wanted to give you all a heads up... I took my NCLEX-RN for the 3rd time this morning and got the good pop up when I got home - I WAS OUT IN 75 QUESTIONS (1st time FAILED in 75, 2nd time got all 265 and this time, yep, out in 75 and got the good ole pop up).... so, am sure I passed... it's never wrong... the stories on here about it being wrong have actually not been verified by anyone...so don't buy into it. Also, as you can see, my scores weren't the best... my advice to anyone reading these posts looking for shreds of hope is this...
1. READ ALL THESE POSTS AND DO WHAT EVERYONE IS TELLING YOU TO DO... I did Hurst...didn't help me - the two things that I found MOST helpful were 1) NCSBN has a review - their review alone got me from 75 questions to 265 - they were very similar to NCLEX and 2) KAPLAN, the decision tree didn't help me AT ALL, what did help me was understanding what NCLEX was asking in the question and making SMART answer choices.
2. DO AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN - I was doing 100 per day and reviewing the rationales.
3. DO NOT GIVE UP - I ultimately finished 93% of the QBank questions with 55% correct.
SEE YOU ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE...and post your success or failures here - I was you, sitting here sorting through and reading all these posts about scores and passing and stuff... let others know what worked or didn't work... it means a lot to folks when it's 1am the night before the NCLEX and someone felt the same way you did... helps to get you through...
This might be a bad question but what's the difference between qbank and trainer? And which resembles the nclex more? Thanks!!!!
Hello, I am enrolled in Kaplan On Demand and if I'm not mistaken, Question Trainers are the exams that you cannot customize by topic/ numbers. The qbank are also practice tests (just like question trainers) but you can choose the topics you want to answer (or you can also answer all questions on ALL topics) and you can also choose how many questions you want to answer.
Hi. I just took the test yesterday. I don't have access to Kaplan anymore 'cause my course ended yesterday as well (hence why I scheduled it as my test day). From what I remember, my Diagnostic was 57, around the 60s for QT 1-5. I took those kind of early in the Kaplan course. I didn't like the scores I was getting so I took a break and studied the content etc. When I went back to do QT 6 I think I got a 72. QT 7 was a 78 and Readiness (I took before QT 6) was a 70. I covered about 60% of QBank and my average score was 62%.
If you are doing that well on the Kaplan quizzes, you may find that the actual NCLEX is much more difficult than you were anticipating.
Since you're going to get a lot of questions right in the beginning, you'll clearly be above passing level, which will mean a good 3/4 of the test is full of very difficult questions, since the test is adaptive to your level.
Ultimately I passed in 75 questions. My state issued my license # today even though I don't get my Quick Results till tomorrow. But since so much of my test was upper level questions, I felt like Kaplan hardly prepared me at all. I had maybe a handful of "who do you see first" questions, I happened to get no hot spots at all. Only two ordered responses. I had TONS and I mean TONS of SATA's. So Kaplan was great for reviewing content, but the types of questions that were asked of me, I felt that Kaplan did diddly squat to prepare me for.
Then there's all the students in my class who I guess were floating around passing level who said that the NCLEX was a cake walk and they passed it with little preparation. I would have loved to have taken their test! Mine was incredibly challenging!
In the end though, I'm a Registered Nurse officially now so it doesn't matter! Ha! Just wanted to prepare you for what you might be facing on test day though.
Thanks for your input. Yeah I am not used to getting Kaplan scores around the 60s. I feel like I am failing, but I heard they are harder than the NCLEX and I am going to keep doing more questions till exam date! :)
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I am just the follow up kinda guy and wanted to give you all a heads up... I took my NCLEX-RN for the 3rd time this morning and got the good pop up when I got home - I WAS OUT IN 75 QUESTIONS (1st time FAILED in 75, 2nd time got all 265 and this time, yep, out in 75 and got the good ole pop up).... so, am sure I passed... it's never wrong... the stories on here about it being wrong have actually not been verified by anyone...so don't buy into it. Also, as you can see, my scores weren't the best... my advice to anyone reading these posts looking for shreds of hope is this...
1. READ ALL THESE POSTS AND DO WHAT EVERYONE IS TELLING YOU TO DO... I did Hurst...didn't help me - the two things that I found MOST helpful were 1) NCSBN has a review - their review alone got me from 75 questions to 265 - they were very similar to NCLEX and 2) KAPLAN, the decision tree didn't help me AT ALL, what did help me was understanding what NCLEX was asking in the question and making SMART answer choices.
2. DO AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN - I was doing 100 per day and reviewing the rationales.
3. DO NOT GIVE UP - I ultimately finished 93% of the QBank questions with 55% correct.
SEE YOU ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE...and post your success or failures here - I was you, sitting here sorting through and reading all these posts about scores and passing and stuff... let others know what worked or didn't work... it means a lot to folks when it's 1am the night before the NCLEX and someone felt the same way you did... helps to get you through...