Passed Canadian NCLEX w/ 75q

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*Disclaimer: The reason why I am posting my experience is b/c I know during my last semester of Nursing School I was searching vigorously this whole site for Canadian students/nurses who already wrote the NCLEX as of 01/15 but I couldnt find any, which was a bummer.

So my success story:

To begin with I am now a Canadian licensed RN as of 14/07/15. I graduated with my bachelors in Nursing at a Canadian University ... duh. I finished classes the last week of April and officially graduated in June. I started to study for the NCLEX first week of May. But honestly, i got lazy half way thru and distracted by the amazing weather and friends. So all of May my study sessions were probably 1-2hrs max and it wasnt intense at all. When June hit, i decided it was time to get more serious and I planned a schedule. I started off with my weakest subjects to study and I keep the ones i knew last. The week before my exam, i went beast mode into studying, e.g i studied 8-9hrs straight. The day before my exam, i just reread all the rationals i wrote down, side notes, diets, lab values and every other quirky things I needed to remember. So the big day came, which was July 10th, I booked my exam in the AM so I would be done with it and not have to wait and count every minute till the 2pm slot time. It took me 1h15 to finish 75 questions. I honestly was not expecting to be done at 75, i actually panicked when the screen turned blue and hoped it was a glitch in the system, ahaha! I had majority SATA/Priority/Pt teaching and delegation. No med calc, drag and drop, hot spot or EKG, which i was annoyed bc i studied EKGs like my life dependent on it, haha!

I refused to do the PVT trick bc its a TRICK and not a definite answers and my province/state doesnt participate in quick results, so i patiently waited for my response 4 days later! After passing the exam, i got to keep my nursing job which was contingent to my passing of the NCLEX.

So the material i used was very basic, i had 2 books and 1 online resource! THATS IT! If you have more than that youll end up confusing yourself! I used Mosby comprehensive review for content+questions and Lippincott Q&A Review for questions only! And my AMAZING and BEST ressource IMO was UWorld. It has amazing rationales, the layout is exactly like the NCLEX, the lvl of difficulty is very similar if not harder and I feel like the question style are similar also. I highly recommend to do more practice question than content review also. I think i answered roughly around 5000q in about 2.5 months. I can now say this that my study material was more difficult than the real exam itself.

Final tips: The likelihood of passing the NCLEX is high bc its a entry lvl exam and you spent 4 yrs of your life living and breathing nursing. Also, use positive thinking before and after each study sessions. I always visualized and verbally said: I am a good Nurse. I will pass. I will have RN at the end of my name EVERY TIME i sat down to study!

Good luck! Anyone can PM for more answers or advice :)

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congrats!

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Congratulations!!! I too am from Canada, writing NCLEX-RN in about a week. Highy anxious to say the least. I would love to PM you, but not sure how. If you could walk me through how to PM you, I would be very grateful.

From one from Canadian to another!!

Thanks so much, and again congratulations.

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Specializes in OR/PACU/med surg/LTC.

Congrats. I'm glad that you were able to get the results so fast. I wrote the paper version in 2011 and we had to wait 6 weeks for the results. Welcome to the nursing field.

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Thanks!!

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Congratulations!!! I too am from Canada, writing NCLEX-RN in about a week. Highy anxious to say the least. I would love to PM you, but not sure how. If you could walk me through how to PM you, I would be very grateful.

From one from Canadian to another!!

Thanks so much, and again congratulations.

i tried to PM you, but bc im a newbie on the site i cant have access to that feature! Sorry! Im open to answering your qs here if you wish!

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Congrats. I'm glad that you were able to get the results so fast. I wrote the paper version in 2011 and we had to wait 6 weeks for the results. Welcome to the nursing field.

oh ive heard about the dreaded 6 week wait!! Thank god the response time is faster with this exam! Thanks again!

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Hi MMOHRN, thank you for tying to PM me! With about a week to go before I write the NCLEX, I find I'm trying to "cram" in a lot of content. I feel as if there is no way to cover everything, and I've been studying intensely for the past 6 weeks. Would you recommend at this point, doing more questions rather than focusing so much on content? I realize I am asking for your opinion here, but I need to be judicious and effectively use my remaining time left before the exam. Many thanks!

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Congrats! I will be writing the CDN Nclex in 2 1/2 weeks!! I am also using uworld & I like it the best out of all my study resources so far! I have a few questions for you!

I am having a hard time finding a canadian lab value sheet and i don't want to study both american and cdn values & get them confused!

1. Would you be able to upload your canadian lab value document if you have one????

2. Also, what areas did you find were most common on the nclex? (im not asking to post questions, just areas I should focus more specifically on).

3. How many hours of good studying do you recommend doing each day & did you take any days off each week?

4. How many questions per day did you do the week before your test & did you increase your hours of studying?

5. What lab values should I focus more on than others?

Thank you & Very happy to hear another CDN passed the Nclex :)!

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Hi MMOHRN, thank you for tying to PM me! With about a week to go before I write the NCLEX, I find I'm trying to "cram" in a lot of content. I feel as if there is no way to cover everything, and I've been studying intensely for the past 6 weeks. Would you recommend at this point, doing more questions rather than focusing so much on content? I realize I am asking for your opinion here, but I need to be judicious and effectively use my remaining time left before the exam. Many thanks!

IMO i think you should utilize your last week by answering as much nclex styled questions than reviewing content. Look at it this way you have a bachelors in nursing, you covered alot of content in 4 years SO YOU MUST KNOW ENOUGH CONTENT! If anything just spot focus on illness/diseases/pharm you have more difficulty understanding. My last week before the nclex i just did questions and reviewed concepts. I hope i helped :)

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Congrats on passing! I won't be writing NCLEX until 2017, but I figured entering 3rd year is a good time to start introducing myself to questions. Thanks so much for posting this; I love seeing the Canadian resources that helped people pass. I'll be taking note of these ones! :)

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Thank you MMOHRN!! I very much appreciate your advice. I'm going to focus on questions and meds. Cannot thank you enough for your response - you have brought clarity and perspective in a difficult time. Wishing you all the best in your new RN position. Many thanks.

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