NCLEX=30% Maternity/Peds?

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Specializes in Family Medicine.

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

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