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Help i recently failed the boards (1st time 7/26) signed up for kaplan review course and still feel unsure about the material. I'm scoring in the 60's in q-bank questions, Im soo devastated i have a job lined up but i need to pass this stupid test, i had 265 questions and my report back said i was near passing in all the categories any recommendations ?:uhoh3:

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg, ICU, DOU, Respiratory.

I averaged 60s in the qbanks. Got 61% on qtrainers #5,6 and 59% on #7 and passed the first time with 101 questions. Good luck to you.

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You will pass, you were so close your 1st time around, definately 2nd time is a PASS!

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thank you, did you just stick to kaplan and did you do it more than once?

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eightball does 265 mean i was really close so many people have told me different things

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hey again!

Yeah, I got 265 the first time july 21 and I didnt pass..BUT they told me that I was near passing, which means if there was a graph I could show u: |---- ok..stay with me here, the dotted line is the passing standard, we were always up and down that line, until we exhausted the number of questions allotted, this means that the computer wasnt 95 percent sure whether we passed or not, so they dropped that rule and basically saw how many " passing standard" questions we answered correctly, the goal is to get those passing standard questions right, these are the application and analysis questions, once we answer at least 50 % right, the comp shuts off, and you PASS! hope this helps, oh I used Kaplan the 2nd time around! I barely studied for my 1st time, I thought it was based on content, so I quickly got that fixed...

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg, ICU, DOU, Respiratory.
thank you, did you just stick to kaplan and did you do it more than once?

No, just went through Kaplan once and took my time. I made sure QT 5,6,7 were done at least a week and a half before taking the exam.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I failed twice but found Saunders an excellent source but also used Kaplan book

With Saunders I kept doing as many questions as I could and understanding the rationale on the ones I got wrong

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so how long did you guys study for before retaking it? i have been studying for about a month using only the kaplan sticking to the top ten topics all the endocrine stuff and the top meds and using the strategies assmt before implements abcd, position o2 iv ect. do you think that is enough? what are your suggestions?

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