passed the boards, but not without struggles

Just took the nclex for the second time this past weekend. The first time I got all 265 questions, and at the end I was tired, hungry, and completely stressed out. I knew the first time I didn't do all that I should have when it came to studying, but really didn't have the motivation to even think about it, you know we just graduated for crying out loud, and the last thing you want to do is study. But a couple months later I got back into it. I enrolled in the kaplan on demand, and started listening to test content. I thought the pharmacology videos were extremely helpful, they'd point out little helpful memory boosters like, "if it ends in mycin, it sounds like mice, mice have big hears, watch out for ototoxcity." Funny enough this was similar to the first question I was asked my second time around. I also did the www.learningext.com question bank. Three weeks prior to my test I payed the fifty bucks for 3 weeks worth of questions. I only did questions, I didn't read all the chapter review. It was well worth the fifty bucks. With kaplan I did most of the questions in the Qbank, and didn't really score all that well on them, but I liked doing it with the tutor version so I could read the rationale. And when it seems too much I would just do short little 10 questions at a time to switch it up. At any rate I say focus on the "who do you see first" I got a lot of those and pray for the best. I couldn't believe when the computer shut off at 75 questions, I still felt as if I didn't answer anything right, but I did the pearson vue trick and got the good message. So believe me if I can do it, you can too:)