(NCLEX) SATA are killing me please help, need advice

[loula114]

Hello everyone,

I am scheduled to take my NCLEX the end of this month.

I am practicing questions on the UWorld Q-bank. they are really hard, but the hardest of it all is the SATA, i always discuss the right options with myself and then talk myself into it for some reason and end up getting them wrong by either missing one option or selecting one opting that's not right.

overall, my scores on the Uwrld are some 50's at begining, then moved to 60's some are in the 70's. i never scored below 50 on any.

I heard a lot of people got bunch of SATA on actual test.

please somebody tell me how were they compared to the UWorld ones if anyone is familiar with it. and also was the whole test overall straight forward or were soe of the questions kind of tricky

Please help, help, help i am going crazy, not knowing how prepared i am

Thanks everyone

Good luck to those who haven't test like myself and congrats to those who passed it

[fustudent610, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I don't mean to scare you, about half my test was SATA. I used kaplan so nclex SATA was much more fair. They weren't tricky, but still a lot of pressure obviously. If you could answer the question in the multiple choice form, you probably also could on nclex SATA. There was no ambiguity like a lot of my practice questions had.

If you're still struggling I'd suggest the alternate format book by lippincott.

[pmabraham, BSN, RN]

Approximately 40% of my NCLEX-RN exam consisted of SATA questions in addition to a large amount of priority (next action, do first, etc.). For SATA questions:

1. Carefully read the question to understand what is really being asked.
   
2. Treat each answer as being true or false in relation to what is being asked.
   
3. Carefully ask yourself how each answer impacts the outcome of the patient.
   
4. Carefully consider any answer that rules out another answer (i.e. if you pick an answer to avoid massaging the area, then don't pick an answer that includes a device which does the same thing as massaging the area).
   

Thank you.

[sigshaRN]

I had a ton of SATA on my NCLEX and they are comparable to the ones on UWORLD. I passed with 75 questions and I was for sure I didn't because I had so many SATA and I was not 100% confidant with my choices. Just take your time answering the questions and as you come across the SATA questions, treat each possible answer separately as if each choice is true or false and that will help you choose your answers. Good luck on your exam!

[loula114]

Thank you all so much for taking the time to reply to my post