Hello! I wanted to share some positive insights for those who been having trouble passing NCLEX. I never thought I’d be sitting here today writing this! I took my boards this past Saturday. I did the PVT trick and to my surprise, got the good pop up! This is the FIRST time I ever got that good pop up and I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t believe I passed either, making all these excuses how I couldn’t have… I felt so poopy after my exam as well and TBH didn’t expect too much that I was going to pass (as I’ve failed so much, I didn’t want to set high expectations for myself only to fail and be disappointed again). Today, I found out I passed! ? Got the full 145 questions. A lot of SATA in the beginning (felt like almost half my exam) and maybe 10 prioritization. Got several OB/Peds Q and infection control! I couldn’t stop looking at the word ‘PASSED’ and still can’t believe it. 
  This has been a loooooong journey for me. I graduated back in 2017. I have FAILED the NCLEX 4x! And each time was equally brutal… I felt hopeless and have thought of giving up. I just didn’t know how to do ‘better’. Also, getting a lot of SATAs doesn’t mean you’ll pass bc I did the last several times I’ve failed. I was prob just super close to passing… So what did I used? Altogether, I’ve used UWorld, LaCharity Prioritization book, Kaplan question book, Saunders, Mark Klimek and Hurst. I had ATI in school but never used it outside of school since 2017.  I would scratch the Kaplan question book out as I didn’t feel that was that great. Prioritization book was super helpful so do the whole book! UWorld is really good but it seems harder than the NCLEX IMO. I didn’t go thru the whole Saunders book— just maybe around 50 questions from each section but I do think the questions are a bit too easy so I stopped using it. What I used in my last exam was Hurst and Mark Klimek! Mark Klimek IMO I feel he doesn’t go too deep into patho stuff but Hurst, I feel like it took it a step further— which helped me a lot! However Mark Klimek has a really good way of getting you to understand lab values and how to prioritize smartly! Highly recommend him— he has recorded audios online somewhere that I’ve downloaded before. This time around, I did not use UWorld but I do love UWorld and I do highly recommend it for understanding how to answer questions and rationales (prob how I got better at answering Q’s). This time, I rarely studied questions. But that’s bc I felt answering the questions wasn’t my weak point, it was needing to know more content. Tbh I procrastinated and studied super hard for just 2 weeks straight right before my exam! Pretty much 6-8hrs/day. I even studied day of and before my exam too, looking over all of my mark Klimek notes too. I did not expect that I will pass bc I crammed so much info in the end. However I did studied differently this time w the content and felt I understood more content this time around! Couldn’t push my exam date out any further either and took it the very last day that I could! I’m not sure if it’s just luck but I’m just really glad I passed and don’t have to worry about taking this test AGAIN! 
  So don’t give up! If you’re failing, it’s either you need to know more content or learn how to answer the questions better! Different actions gives you different results!  I know how it feels to feel like a failure. All my nursing classmates who graduated with me have been nurses for many years since 2017/2018 and I finally just passed boards. It’s definitely crazy and I’m still trying to fully process this achievement!