Nursing Students General Students
Published Oct 28, 2010
noyesno, MSN, APRN, NP
834 Posts
Today, we took this test that is suppose to determine our chances of passing the NCLEX.
Unfortunately, I did not do well on this test and I left school feeling very down. After I stopped moping around, I took a long look at the answer key to the test and it turns out that over 50% of the questions I answered wrong were related to maternity and pediatrics. Over 30% (I actually calculated this) of the test questions were related to maternity and pediatrics, so, this was a big chunk of questions answered wrong.
I had maternity (for four weeks) during the Fall semester of 2009 and I had pediatrics during that same semester (also for four weeks). For the Spring 2010 semester and this semester (Fall 2010), I've been studying adult health issues in med/surg. Needless to say, I'm not that knowledgeable on pregnant people, infants, and kiddies at this time.
SO, here is my question for the allnurses world:
From your own experience or from what you've heard, do maternity and pediatric questions make up a large portion of the NCLEX?
I'm trying to gauge how serious I should take these test results.
Thank you in advance for your feedback! :)
noyesno