Ok so I'm the biggest procrastinator, my exam is tomorrow and I just started studying for it a week ago. I've been working on Kaplan Q-bank and NCSBN learningext.com
These are my results for the question trainers:
Question Trainer 1 57%
Question Trainer 2 76%
Question Trainer 3 58%
Question Trainer 4 59%
Question Trainer 5 61%
Question Trainer 6 57%
Question Trainer 7 62%
I'm not sure if that's good enough. I took an ATI predictor test, 97% chance of passing, Kaplan my percentage was 62% (I hear 65 is whats acceptable ) and NCSBN diagnostic 75%
I've been freaking out all day, having palpitations, hopefully I calm my nerves before tomorrow..:sstrs::hdvwl:
Who has done the question trainers and what were your results? How helpful was it for the actual exam? Thoughts on learningext.com? Did those help you pass the first time?
Well in any case, all I can do now is hope for the best...can't change my date. I will update tomorrow after I do the pearsonvue.com trick. Wish me luck!!
i used an a great book called Frye's 3300 Nursing Bullets by Charles M. Frye, published by Lippincott. it's 250 pages of just bullet points, all types, no order, but they're great. often i would read pages and then take a kaplan test and the bullets would totally help me. i highly recommend this book. it's small and i always kept it in my purse/car so i could always check off a few. but between that and kaplan, don't bother doing more. i think it's more critical to study up on things you're weak in, ie really understand hyper/hypothyroid or diabetes or SIADH/DI, and Addison's/Cushings. review your F&E and go over s/s of major meds ie HTN meds, HF meds, anti-lipidemics, etc. i would def do all the kaplan questions, but all the questions in the world won't help you on a SATA question that's asking you to check off all the s/s of hyperparathyroidism, for example.
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