now that you took it,,what do you wish you had read up on more?

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For those that took the nclex, what did you feel you wished you'd done or read over knowing what you know now?

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I would focus on knowing the content. The questions are worded in a simple way and most are no more than 2 sentences. In my opinion it would have been more helpful just to know what the different diseases are etc instead of doing so many wordy/very complex questions.

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That's a great question. I feel like everything I did was right on point. Just focused on Questions & rationales (mainly Kaplan) and read some of Saunders along with more questions from LaCharitys PDA and lippincots alternate style Q&A book. We already have the core knowledge so it's just putting that into practice.

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That's a great question. I feel like everything I did was right on point. Just focused on Questions & rationales (mainly Kaplan) and read some of Saunders along with more questions from LaCharitys PDA and lippincots alternate style Q&A book. We already have the core knowledge so it's just putting that into practice.

I agree with you

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I'm thinking if a person passed, they did whatever it was they did and it worked so there really is no need to think "I should have ABC" or "I shouldn't have done XYZ but 123 instead".

I did thousands of NCLEX questions from both Saunders, LaCharity and Kaplan (required by my school for the last 4 classes of the last year). I read the rationales for both the ones i got right and the ones I got wrong.

You need to know not only content but how to apply the content to situations that can occur and what your steps/actions/interventions would be.

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I can't say there is any one book or content that I would have changed. I know doing QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, and more QUESTIONS worked for me. I used ATI and Kaplan but really, I think what mattered for me was doing question after question and being very careful to read the rationales. When I got a similar question later the answer made so much more sense to me. This also helped get me in to the mode of breaking down questions, reading the answers very carefully, and choosing an answer based on everything I learned in nursing school. Honestly, by the time I took NCLEX I had probably done 3,000+ questions in three weeks and gone over the rationales of each.

I wish you the very best of luck!

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I can't say there is any one book or content that I would have changed. I know doing QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, and more QUESTIONS worked for me.

Honestly, by the time I took NCLEX I had probably done 3,000+ questions in three weeks and gone over the rationales of each.

I wish you the very best of luck!

Same here. I think what did it for me was questions. I would get a question about something that was fuzzy or I hadn't heard of and reading the rationale really helped nail it in my brain. I was at right about 4700 (give or take a few, and yes I'm the crazy person that kept track! :p) questions in the two weeks I studied.

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I was at right about 4700 (give or take a few, and yes I'm the crazy person that kept track! :p) questions in the two weeks I studied.

You did that many questions in two weeks? I don't know if I even made 1000 in that same time and I thought I did a lot! If you did not pass after all that I will be a monkey's uncle LOL!

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Yea, a bit overboard I know. I've always been a really fast test taker and reader so I think that's why I ended up with so many. Honestly, the only reason I think the NCLEX took me 45 minutes was nerves. I can normally take and pass a 65 question test in 20 minutes.

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