NCLEX Success

[SRNA12191]

So I spent hours reading forums about how to pass the NCLEX and the certain practice test scores that you should be getting to be in line to pass the NCLEX. I am posting this to tell all of you to not worry about that and not stress out. I bought the Kaplan Qbank and got about 60% right usually. Everyone is always talking about how similar Kaplan is to NCLEX, but I completely disagree. I felt the NCLEX was much harder. I left the test feeling miserable and I was complelely sure I had failed. I had so many questions with material that I had never even heard of!

When I got home I tried the Pearson Vue Trick and I got the good pop-up. I was extremely skeptical of it because I thought I had done so bad. I'm guessing that I would have been lucky to get half of the questions right on the NCLEX. I just found out today from my quick results that I passed. The conclusion I am drawing is that the NCLEX is an extremely hard test, but it is NOT a hard test to pass. The best advice I can give is to not study content, you would be waisting your time. Just do as many practice questions as possible and Don't stress out. If you have just a little bit of confidence you WILL pass.

Good luck to all!

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

I agree with you! There's not enough time to cram, so questions are best. You have to know the core stuff, but hopefully that's the stuff that will stick in people's brains from class.

Also, if your test seems impossibly hard you probably passed. I had a ton of drugs I'd never heard of before and RANDOM side effects of ones I knew (seriously, minor side effects in a select all that apply with the important side effects I had learned not present in the questions), and I walked out of there confident that I passed because there was no way the test would have been that hard if I hadn't!