Nurses who have passed the NCLEX-Please help me!

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Hello RN's!

I wanted to get some insight from the nurses who have passed the NCLEX. What did you study? How many hours did you study? What worked the best for you?

Thanks! :)

neliztanee

65 Posts

Im not sure if i passed, but i took the exam yesterday. I answered about 300 questions a day for 3 months. Not sure how many hours because i dont answer it in one seating. Of i get tired i walk around the house, watch tv or take a nap.

Clovery

549 Posts

I took it ASAP after graduating (so everything was fresh in my mind), read the Kaplan book, and did the practice tests in the book and CD-ROM. Throughout nursing school I used various CD-ROMs to do practice question - my favorite was Silvestri. Passed the NCLEX with 75 questions, felt pretty clueless on nearly half of them. I found the Kaplan strategies very useful, I would definitely suggest picking up that book for around $20 (amazon) and going through it cover to cover.

Hello.Kitty.Girl.

1 Article; 14 Posts

Im not sure if i passed, but i took the exam yesterday. I answered about 300 questions a day for 3 months. Not sure how many hours because i dont answer it in one seating. Of i get tired i walk around the house, watch tv or take a nap.

Hi Neliztanee, thanks for sharing your story and good luck on your results! I will definitely keep answering lots and lots of questions.

Hello.Kitty.Girl.

1 Article; 14 Posts

I took it ASAP after graduating (so everything was fresh in my mind), read the Kaplan book, and did the practice tests in the book and CD-ROM. Throughout nursing school I used various CD-ROMs to do practice question - my favorite was Silvestri. Passed the NCLEX with 75 questions, felt pretty clueless on nearly half of them. I found the Kaplan strategies very useful, I would definitely suggest picking up that book for around $20 (amazon) and going through it cover to cover.

Hi Clovery, thank you for giving me some great tips! I will definitely look into the Kaplan strategies book ;)

Hello.Kitty.Girl.

1 Article; 14 Posts

I took it ASAP after graduating (so everything was fresh in my mind), read the Kaplan book, and did the practice tests in the book and CD-ROM. Throughout nursing school I used various CD-ROMs to do practice question - my favorite was Silvestri. Passed the NCLEX with 75 questions, felt pretty clueless on nearly half of them. I found the Kaplan strategies very useful, I would definitely suggest picking up that book for around $20 (amazon) and going through it cover to cover.

Hi Clovery, so I'm looking up the Kaplan Strategies on amazon and I found great deals on the 2010-2011 edition but the 2012-2013 edition doesn't come with the cd. Which edition did you use? And if I purchased the 2010-2011 edition, do you think that would still be very useful?

cherribonbon

50 Posts

Hi neliztanee,

Wow i admire you for doing 300 questions a day. I barely can go through 150 a day. How many weeks or months did you take to prepare? What resources did you use?

neliztanee

65 Posts

Cheribonbon, some of the questions were repetitive. I used nclex 3500, a saunders, kaplan strategies and a downloaded q trainer. Also a little bit of la charity

Beelady

38 Posts

I did 450-500 questions a day and still failed I pray you passed it's no joke!

localgurl54

6 Posts

I did pass the NCLEX and I studied the Saunders comprehensive, which is a very good one to get, and I also studied the exam cram. I studied here and there and the night before and i had 85 questions and i passed. Questions that I got was common sense questions and select all that apply. But it wasn't too hard. Good luck! This is for the LPN.

NurseJTG

52 Posts

Hello. The one thing I found most useful was answering questions. I did 20 at a time, read the rationales and took a 10 min break after each one. I did this for 1 month (these are my recommendations that helped me pass the 3rd time). Most helpful was NCSBN, Nclex-3500, and LaCharity for questions.

Specializes in ED.

I took the Hurst live review, and aside from that, maybe studied 10 hours total. The day before NCLEX I made sure I knew all of my normal lab values, and that was it. It was three weeks from when I graduated to when I sat for my NCLEX, so I didn't feel that there was much point in studying hardcore.

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