I am getting so antsy:wacky: just waiting to take my exam on the 23rd of October. I just keep hoping what I am doing is enough. I am currently studying with HURST online review. I have already watched all of the videos once and filled out my outlines. I am now spending each day with one or two topics from the videos.
Study Plan Example:dead::
Oncology day. I watch Hurst Oncology videos with my outline, stop the video at the end of each page, close my eyes and lecture out loud as though I had a class. I then quiz myself on quizlet under the hurst oncology & oncology med. flash cards I've found. Then I do practice questions from PDA LaCharity under Oncology, Saunders Oncology, and NCSBN oncology. The week before my test I will do all hurst Qbank questions that they have, along with Kaplan Q-trainers 4 to 7.
I am so nervous and hoping that I am doing enough to pass. Wish me luck guys, and if you've used Hurst and passed, please send some encouragement.
Hurst is enough. It is perfect especially since you graduated 5 years ago. When I got Hurst I put away my Saunders and everything else. I followed their program exactly. Rewatched the videos a couple times, and went over their notes daily. I didn't use their 6 q banks until the week before my exam. I tried other review programs briefly and realized that none of them were for me, kaplan, remar, and ncsbn. However just for kicks I did a few q trainers, remar questions, and ncsbn questions a few days before my exam and my scores were very high, so I took that as I studied efficiently and did no more none HURST questions. I went into my test exhausted from studying. I knew that there was nothing left to do to make me more prepared Hurst prepared me so well, and I couldn't look at another NCLEX question or NCLEX anything. I was over it, I give my preparation my all, so I tested. Good luck you will do amazing, If I had been out of school for awhile I would only go with hurst, it was all I needed. Love Saunders but it may be too much information, if you must use saunders, just use it for alternate format questions.
You mentioned Remar wasn't for you. Did you use the complete program & not pass with it
Hi, congrats for passing NCLEX. I graduated 5 years ago and just want to ask how did you study, like how many months? and how many hours per day? and what review materials did you use? thanks.
I was studying for like 4 weeks aggressively hurst core content after that one week before my exam I did only questions from exam cream CD, Kaplan book 145 qt and Saunders CD 3700qt I didn't finish all Saunders qt I think I did about 1100 qt, read rationales very important, hurst is excellent , and also by doing questions u will learn more content , do exam mode on Saunders CD and do different style qt ( hurst 4 weeks 4-5 hrs a day and one week before exam just qt all day long take small breaks that's what I did) u will be good to go, good luck
2013rn2BScorpio
322 Posts
You mentioned Remar wasn't for you. Did you use the complete program & not pass with it