need help for state board exam plz reply..

Well geez, if you have just graduated you really shouldn't need any books to study. You were supposed to learn this stuff in school.:mortarboard: Good luck!

Hi there! I understand your anxiety level right about now! :idea:There's a couple of review books that I recommend. One is NCLEX-PN Review made Incredibly Easy (2nd Edition), and Kaplan Review is good also. I was lucky that my school offered a PN Review class that was 2 weeks long and the woman who taught was a nurse for 50+ years- she even wrote questions for the NCLEX! She gave us tons of question and the most awesome Modular to study from. You may want to check in your area to see if any schools offer a course like that.

I don't know how much different it is over in Ca, I'm in FL though. This is the way I study,....I have thousands of practice questions and I sit down every day for at least one hour (doesn't have to be all at the same time) and try to do as many questions as I can. I read alot about test taking strategies-this really helps, especially if you get a question that you are not sure about. You need to get familiar with the questions they are going to ask-and trust me it helps! I just finished doing this not too long ago for my massage therapy boards.

So I feel for you at this time because I am studying my tail off, waiting to hear from the state so I can schedule my test! Good luck to you!!!

The process I used seemed to work since I just passed on my first try.

Here's what you need to do first

Buy these books:

1. NCLEX-PN Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy

2. Lippincott's Review for NCLEX-PN

3. Saunders Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-PN

4. Straight A's in Nursing Pharmacology

Getting the latest edition of these is probably best

Our process that worked with about 97% of our school was to basically do 200 questions a day. You start with your best subjects in Incredibly Easy since it's the easiest. Then move onto the next easiest book which would be Lippincotts on the same subject and lastly, do the questions in Saunders, also on the same subject. After all that, you should be an expert on that subject! Grade yourself on every test you take...read all your rationales...just to warn you, when you start out, you will be getting around the 50 or 60 percents. Don't give up...the more you do it, the better your scores will get. After you finish all the subject specific tests, move on to the comprehensive tests. And once you are scoring in the 80's...you should be ready! I followed this process exactly and I passed at 85 on the NCLEX-PN, which is really good. Do this for about 6 weeks or until youve done about 6000 questions. So, say you do 200 a day for 5 days a week....give yourself two days for rest...then you have done 1000 questions a week.

When you finish one subject, start on the next one and do the same thing.

With each subject you do, try studying the pharma on that subject also. It helps to incorporate it in. Read the pink part of the Straight A's in Pharma, and take the test at the end. If you get below a 70%, then read the whole white part.

DO NOT skip pharma. That's probably THE most important thing on the test. I got over a dozen med questions on it. Thank god I studied it.

One more good book for pharma if you have time is Pharmacology Made Easy for NCLEX-PN. It's self explanatory. Read it and do the questions pretty much.

That's really all you need, is just to do question after question and know the rationales for them. It's going to be a lot of work, nursing is not easy...but I wish you luck and I hope my advice comes in handy!

Well geez if you have just graduated you really shouldn't need any books to study. You were supposed to learn this stuff in school.:mortarboard: Good luck![/quote']

Not necessarily true. Most people have several textbooks for all of the domains of the nursing program. Now, most people want to see summaries that emphasize in the most important points. If the majority of people have a plan to take NCLEX within 6 weeks to 3 months, there is not much time to go through the text, and most do need to refresh on things that were their weakest points in school since you have no idea what they will ask you.

very true pagandeva, i agree with you

the Lippincott cd is really good. and Incredible Easy. I just took my board exam on 02/29/08 and most of the questions are very similar to Lipincott cd. Stay away from Saunders if you don't like reading. You'll get bored with Saunders. My main point is all books are really good but stick to the ones you really enjoy.

hmmm my style of studying was "know everything" and "you either know it or you dont". in short, time is essential. i studied off of my nursing text books and doing questions off of nursing made incredibly easy and saunder nclex-pn review. i did 1 system review at a time, knowing the AP and pathophysiology of each disease. i would do 140 questions a day on the system that i was reviewing starting off with incredibly easy and then doing saunders. i wouldnt go on to a next system until i scored 80 percent on saunders. i saved my labs/diagnostics and nursing interventions for last because i believed that you can use critical thinking and assign them to the appropriate disease process.