NCLEX-PN Mastery Simulation Exam

[ascs2017]

HI all! I'm new here to allnurses :)

Not sure if anyone has heard about this, the the same company that has created NCLEX Mastery App for PN/RN has this wonderful NCLEX Simulation exam that you can purchase for $10. It gives you the minimum number of questions you can get on NCLEX with the max amount of time (85q, 6hrs) and when you've completed the exam it will give you a score, as well as list your weak and strong points and give you an 'Overall Mastery Level".

I graduated nursing school the first week of June, finally received my ATT yesterday and scheduled my exam for the last week of July. I decided to take the simulation test on a whim to see where my weakest points are so that I could focus there- a little backstory: my school used Kaplan, we had to take a Kaplan exam at the end of every term that related back to the class we had just taken and then of course Adult Health, Gerontology and Readiness right at the end. I never once studied for these exams, because I wanted to know that I was truly retaining material from each class, that being said I only 'failed' (my school had a different grading scale than kaplan, according to kaplan I did excellent on all of them) Developing Families (by 1 point), Readiness (by 4 questions according to the school) and Adult Health (by 1 point). I had been so confident until I took Readiness and failed it with a 63%, until after graduating I reached out to Kaplan and was told that my 63% gave me a 95% chance of passing NCLEX the first time.

So last night after scheduling my NCLEX, I decided to take the Mastery Simulation exam, keep in mind I've done about 500 questions since graduating- more for fun honestly because I'm the crazy person who enjoys UWorld and likes answering questions but that's really all I've done. I finished the 85 questions in about 45 minutes and my Overall Mastery Level was Advanced, my only weak areas being Labs (understandable, I haven't really brushed up on them in over a month), Pediatrics (I despise peds. So that wasn't surprising either) and in Psych I was just below advanced, but close. All the other topics include Med-Surg, Maternity and Pharm which I was Advanced on those topics and Fundamentals which I scored Mastery on those.

*Forgive my incredibly long rant, but I'm terrified*

So, with that novel that I've just written, my question is this: Should I really wait two more weeks to sit for NCLEX? The testing center available then is about two hours away in another state...or I could sit as soon as this week here in VA. But I'm afraid that I'm just fooling myself and I won't be ready. The last exam I took in nursing school was the Kaplan Readiness, and that 'failure' completely shot my self confidence...help? Advice? Eye drops from having to read all of that? :)

[Mamajaan]

Hello!

So I actually went to Kaplan in San Diego for my RN degree. Just some feedback: our Readiness test advisor (who is hired directly by Kaplan) told us that we should set our goal to get at least a 50% on that readiness exam. Based on your novel (JK) it seems like you did AMAZING! We were lucky enough to get access to the entire Kaplan Q Bank (about 1300 questions) and we were always told anything 60% or better on those was perfect for NCLEX. Also, I too took the NCLEX Mastery Simulation test and scored a 63%, Advanced overall, with advanced level in everything except Labs. I think you'll pass, I'd say go for it (but I'm also impatient).

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the NCLEX forum