NCLEX June 2017 Uworld Praise

[bodhisattva]

Hello to all of you wonderful nurses :)

TL;DR at the bottom

Well, I just wanted to thank everyone on this forum. I spent almost all of my study breaks on here looking for reassurance. I found so much helpful insight and kind words that would ease me in my worst of moments.

As a student I worked at a restaurant and was stressed beyond belief almost all of the time. I was a B student with A capabilities, I just didn't apply myself because I was always so jaded about having to put myself through school. I slacked off through OB & Peds, and rather than spending my free time in the last semester preparing for NCLEX, I spent the time doing what I wanted to do. On the ATI predictor I had an 88% chance of passing NCLEX, and that was with no preparation or practice. I also didn't do Hurst. They could keep go somewhere else asking for $500. I had always planned on taking my NCLEX in August after I would be graduating in early May. I told myself that once graduation hit I would lock down and get serious. To my dismay I was offered a job position in April. This meant I would need to take my NCLEX much sooner than planned. No big deal. Quitting my job at the restaurant in May was one of the most satisfying things I had ever done. However I was taking a HUGE gamble. I was now jobless and if I didn't pass NCLEX I would be scrambling for money, a job, and having to study for NCLEX round 2. Not to mention loans beginning and personal debts.

I rented Lacharity's prioritization & delegation book, the Saunders Q&A book, as well as the NCLEX mastery app. Soon after I learned about Uworld from this forum and had to see what the craze was about. I was blown away at how much better the questions were. They really challenged me and allowed me to develop a better sense of critical thinking than my 4 years of schooling combined. The questions in Saunders and Mastery app are complete GARBAGE. Do not waste your time answering definition based questions. Uworld's questions are so multi-faceted and have you pull from all different areas of your learning. The rationales are everything you need and none of the fluff.

I studied loosely each day for about 2 weeks (2-4 hours each day). Then in the last 3 weeks leading to the exam I studied from 6 am-5 pm. I completely underestimated the breadth of information that would need to be covered for NCLEX. Luckily my anxiety allowed me to study for hours on end.

TEST EXPERIENCE:

I woke up at 5 am to do some sprints to calm myself before the test at 8 am. I was reviewing pharm flash cards in the car on the way and already thinking about how I was going to to fail. I did breathing exercises in the waiting room with my eyes closed. When the test started I was calm. These questions seemed easy. I was afraid I wasn't getting them right though. The content/subject of the question would be easy but the answer choices were so ambiguous and caught me off guard. My test shut off at 75. I thought for sure I failed. For sure. I went home and did the PVT and got the bad pop up. So I went out and bought myself a pizza lol.

The next day I found my name on the BON website. I passed. How was it possible?

TL;DR

Uworld will teach you better than nursing school, ATI, and Hurst combined.

Review the difficult stuff but don't neglect "the easy stuff".

Take care of yourself while preparing, work out, eat well, and take your vitamins. It's not worth getting sick over and having to take the test while feeling like death.

You got this fam

[Lsc10]

I take my nclexpn tomorrow at 2pm I'm a nervous wreck I'm using Uworld and yes its amazing finished all 1100 qs and ended up in the 52th percentile average 48th percentile on there don't know if its good or bad but I'm writing down all my rationales and gonna do the self assessment later tonight this is my second round.... used the point the first time and failed.. str8 garbage but we will see if all the hard work is worth it tomorrow... Congrats again

[petmom]

Congratulations on passing your exam! :) May I ask what steps you did to get the bad pop up? The pearson vue website brings everyone to the credit card page now to enter in all the payment and it isn't until you hit "submit," that you get either a good pop up stating "our records indicate..." or a bad pop up being it tried to charge you by showing the message "incorrect cvc" (basically enter correct info) or actually charged you $200 if you entered in all the correct info.

[Lupe Sanchez, BSN, RN]

I agree the Mastery App is not that good, they need to update their information, same questions from when they first launched the app.

[kingston2866]

i cant see you saying Hurst is garbage. I did enclex monday and i got all 265 questions and used all my hours what state did you take your enclex was it for RN or PN. Uworld questions were outdated only good thing was it make me relax because the screen and set up was similar. But as far as the questions they were way off. Mind we all now we arent going to get the exact same questions like Uworld but there should be some objective as to simularities but Uworld Qbank was way off. I think HURST should be better i cant see folks passing enclex with 75 to 85 questions using UWorld only guess its just a matter of which series of questions you get on the enclex exam or what state you are in so anyone reading this message just keep taking the enclex untill you get a simular series of questions like those folks passing enclex with only answering 75 to 85 questions you already know the material so dont beat yourself up if you do Hurst Live in your area you have a better chance of passing enclex. Dont do Hurst online you have to do Hurst live in a classroom.