What did you do the day before your test date?

Nursing Students NCLEX

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Hey All! Just wondering what some of you did the day before your test date. Personally, I plan to go to six flags, and wear myself out on roller coaster rides :D After all this studying I'm excited to go out and do something fun!! My anxiety has been terrible this past week, and I think going out and loosening up a bit will help.

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I went blueberry picking with my friends and then for hike that at the top of the "mountian" finished with swimming in lake! I planned to study but my friends said "NO" and drag me with them. I am so thankful for this! I think I would have mental breakdown if I would stay home :)

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I played COD and watched HULU

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I just revised some lab values in the morning...and the remaining day I played with my sisters son....

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I plan to review labs/testing strategies and have everything prepped for the big day the morning before I leave for six flags :-)

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Specializes in floating.

I was so burned out from moving, unpacking, cleaning, working, and trying to study the previous four weeks that I slept about 18 hours the day prior

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I reviewed some notes etc, but honestly none of it even came up on my test. I wish I hadn't bothered!! I think six flags sounds like a great plan :)

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Specializes in CMSRN.

I took mine on a Monday. The day before included church, going to the funeral home (a family member of a friend passed away), dropping my kiddos off with family, and then driving to the city of my testing site. It was about an hour and 20 min away and I didn't want to drive the next morning. I also chose a hotel less than a block away so I could walk, which was perfect. My husband and I checked in to the hotel, walked to the testing site, went to get dinner, and relaxed in the hotel room the rest of the night. I was able to get up the next morning and be at the testing site at 7:25 a.m. without having to drive a ton or stress about it.

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I took mine on Wednesday! I worked from 9am-5pm on Tuesday, had dinner with my boyfriend, and then went home. I had planned on just relaxing, but I couldn't! I started to review and look over medications; lucky for me, some of the things that I reviewed were on my exam! I went to bed around 11pm, but I was awake until about 3am. Since I had to get into the city to take my exam at 8:00am, I honestly slept no more than 2 hours. It was all worth it, though, and I got to crash once I got back home.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Float Pool, MICU, CTICU.

I maybe the only outlier on this, but I still studied for the whole day before lol. That's just me and how I do exams though.

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Specializes in Nasty sammiches and Dilaudid.

I went for a nice long run in the a.m. then followed it up with Scotch, a good cigar, and doing absolutely nothing productive (didn't even look at a NCLEX prep book). Though correlation =/= causation, I passed in 75 questions so it "must" have worked... ;)

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I tool my NCLEX PN AND RN (July 12 and July 16) PASSED THEM BOTH, I stopped 85 on PN and 80 ON RN, what I can suggest: Develop your critical thinking with hard Q & A's. I used the newest edition of Lippincott's Q&A, to tell you the TRUTH, they were even harder than the REAL NCLEX question, i was just doing 60-70% of the Question's results i felt terrible and stupid read all rationales and it was worth it! questions on nclex are SIMPLE AND CONCISE. I myself was even thinking I was never on high level questions till i realized I've had more than 5 SATAs and 4 Drag and drop for both exams.

What i did the day before? went shopping got myself VERY BUSY i even went home midnight literally to kill myself in bed right after shower. it helped because i was able to rest!

PS: I am a foreign grad, I challenged the LVN exam in CA, and RN on WA state. btw can anyone tell me how long is the wait LVN license?

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