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It seems like you've seen too much material and over loaded your brain to feed your anxiety. I know that a great tip that helped me was I chose to stick to ONE book and one book only. If you over see too many references it'll feel overwhelming causing the day of your exam to feel like a shock wave of too much knowledge and not enough confidence.
You can only review so much
allabtu
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Good day nurses and soon to be nurses,
I am on my third try on the nclex. I have been researching why I failed this round with the exam. Something I noticed during my exhausting hours with this test was their terms. I am aware that the nclex is tricky, it seems to focus on the weak areas of your knowledge. Being a CAT I realized that the questions used twisted words, reconfirms, ablation further instructions, a nurse reconfirms as the nurse states, the nurse further needs instruction when the nurse states. There is much more than these terms but you get my idea. I need questions that use terms like this to help me think like the nclex. I have came across any review material that actually is similar to the exam. Sure I can make 100% on the review material but that is the companies way of putting their spin on the test not NCLEX's way.
So is there any hope out there, any directions to a program that can help? I have seen KAPLANS, Saunders, vipra, NCSBN, pearsons, and fuerer. Nothing is close to being able to explain how to truly understand the method.