2nd try how many questions a day?

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I believe I didn't pass the Nclex on my first try because I didn't do enough questions, and because I took it at 8am on almost zero sleep (fail at 75 yikes).. I've been studying about an hour a night and doing about 50 questions a night for the past 2 weeks. I am now 2 weeks away from trying again. I set my test up for 2pm on a Saturday. I decided I want to try and do 250-300 questions a day and look up anything I get wrong.. I work during the day, but I figure I can do 300 questions in about 4-5 hours at night. The last 3 days I'm just going to review study guides and lab values.

Any practice tests I can take that will let me know if I'm ready before I sit again? I'll push it back a month if I really have to, I just do NOT want to take it at 8am again.

Just looking for opinions..

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I found another appointment so I pushed it back 5 days.. Gonna do 200 questions a night for 3 weeks instead.

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Did u take any review course? I felt that hurst was a GREAT resource. I did the online review. It also comes with 6 practice tests that I thought really prepared me.

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I did 6,500 questions total and passed! i studied for 2 and a half months i cant do more than 150-200 a day because my brain shuts down

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Studying for 2.5 months just seems too long for me.. 5-6 weeks sounds pretty good, I have the Feuer audio review, but I'm really not that impressed for the $400 it costs. I really wanted to do an on location review, but there aren't many offered and I work full time as the VP for an online company. Its very hard for me to take more then 2 or 3 days off in a row. I feel like I'd rather read Saunders front to back then take an online review.

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Studying for 2.5 months just seems too long for me.. 5-6 weeks sounds pretty good, I have the Feuer audio review, but I'm really not that impressed for the $400 it costs. I really wanted to do an on location review, but there aren't many offered and I work full time as the VP for an online company. Its very hard for me to take more then 2 or 3 days off in a row. I feel like I'd rather read Saunders front to back then take an online review.
I know it was a long time but I didn't want to risk failing again to pass I did Kaplan question trainers and Q bank Lachairity priority book Saunders Hoagan ncsbn and lipicott 4000
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Saunders is good too. My friend read the whole book and did the questions and passed. My friend and I did different things but both only studied for about a week and a half. For me, that works better because if I spent 6 weeks, I would have forgotten everything from week 1 of studying.

Don't stress on doing tons and tons of questions. Do them, but don't overdo it! Make sure u know why you are picking the answer you are picking. Read rationales. I will say that I knew without a doubt why I chose my answers on the nclex.

Good luck to you when you take it again, just stay calm and have confidence.

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