NCLEX PN exam in 1 week!

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I am taking my 3rd attempt of the NCLEX-PN exam next week! I have been using the NCBSN online course to help me. I have been typing up the material, but that is taking too long, so now I wish I just read all the material. That would have made things go a lot quicker. I guess I am getting nervous since this is my 3rd time around. Part of me just wanted to stop typing and just read all the information and go through important things (labs, ABCs, math problems). It would also be smart for me to take practice tests. Anyone have more advice for me?

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My graduation date was Nov' 2015, I am based in California and they are notorious for the speed of their processing. I didn't get my official letter until April and I just recently took the test on 3/14.

My my advice is take as many practice questions as possible and read thru review books for generalized common diseases (like all the anemias, diabetes etc etc) and common drug categories (like you heart meds, respiratory, NSAIDs etc. I only had slip up in psych mds). I found everything to be very generalized. Math problems, if you can figure out the drops per minute you'll be fine, I didn't get anything harder than that. Definitely learn your lab values, that saved me a bunch of times and just know more often than not the value is going to be significantly off.

I stuided 2.5 weeks straight ranging from 3-6hours a day,mind you I'm currently working 40hours a week and took no breaks from work. I used Exam Cram, ATI and Kaplan review books.

I would read every day and take up to 100 questions a day. When I read the following day I would start from the beginning of the book and cover up the paragraph and try as best as I could to reguitate the information. In fact, after every chapter I would start from chapter one and reguitate the information and proceed. You don't have recite in great detail, just know the basics of the disease, what makes it so significantly different than others.

im not saying I passed but the Pearson Vue test trick worked for me. And according to all my friends and my clinical instructor, the way my test went is a good sign.

Always apply Maslows and ABC when possible. Don't overthink the question. Just remember you are in the perfect hospital/SNF everything will workout perfect and there's no discrepancy, which is far from what we learned in our clinical rotations am I right? Lol

breath and believe and take your time.

Good luck :)

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Thank you for the advice! I think I'm just scared to fail it again and not know what to do next.

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Goodluck on your Exam. I know you can make it this time! Mine i'll be taking next month. I'm using Uworld

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Good luck I'm sure you will do great

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I just got sick, and my test is in a few days!! I don't know what to do!

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Stay positive and study hard, practice as many NCLEX type questions as you can. Pray and believe in yourself.

Best wishes my friend

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Read the questions carefully before moving on to the next one.

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