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NCLEX help!

hi everyone,

i have been studying for the nclex for about 6 weeks straight (4-6 hours a day) and am signed up to take the exam jan. 29th. throughout nursing school, we were tested using ati which i never really scored well on. the comprehensive predictor said that i had a 91% chance of passing the nclex. i was a little discouraged since i had studied for that exam for a whole month before i took it (i have also received straight a's throughout nursing school). i don't know what is wrong! my faculty advised me to take the virtual ati (which i hate). there are no strategies to answering the questions, it is pure content! i end up scoring pretty low and it freaks me out! i just starting taking kaplan and on my diagnostic test it said i was borderline. for the past week, i have been studying my weak areas and learning the decision tree method on how to answer questions. i feel i know a lot of nursing content, it is just purely applying and critically thinking that i struggle. did anyone else score low on practice questions, but still manage to pass the nclex? what should i do? please help!

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Can't say enough about practice as many questions as you can and make sure you understand the rationale to the ones you get wrong.

I have a friend who scored low on Kaplan but passed NCLEX. But I would think if you are consitently scoring low when taking NCLEX style tests, you need more practice before you tak the real thing! Continue through Kaplan and see how much you improve and then go from there. I would suggest doing the Saunders review using Suzannes plan. There are lots of posts on that in this forum. Best wishes!

My school used ATI throughout the program and my opinion of them now that I have taken the NCLEX is that ATI is useless. ATI barely required any critical thinking...it was straight up memorization knowledge based questions...you either knew it or you didnt and there wasn't a way to critically think your way to tha answer. NCLEX is the latter....even on stuff I had NO earthly clue about I was able to reason out an answer based on the info I was given....for example it could have asked me about some disease called " YOUDONTKNOWTHISITIS" but it was more important for me to read what the question was asking of me than it was to know if I knew every little girtty detail about YOUDONTKNOWTHISITIS.

My school used ATI throughout the program and my opinion of them now that I have taken the NCLEX is that ATI is useless. ATI barely required any critical thinking...it was straight up memorization knowledge based questions...you either knew it or you didnt and there wasn't a way to critically think your way to tha answer. NCLEX is the latter....even on stuff I had NO earthly clue about I was able to reason out an answer based on the info I was given....for example it could have asked me about some disease called " YOUDONTKNOWTHISITIS" but it was more important for me to read what the question was asking of me than it was to know if I knew every little girtty detail about YOUDONTKNOWTHISITIS.

Thats interesting, Boonmersmom! I'll keep that in mind...I also used ATI and the questions seem rather simple. I supposedly have a 99% chance of passing but I dont trust them! :bugeyes:

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