Passed with 75 questions using UWorld

UWorld is awesome and should be the gold standard Qbank. It is honestly a treasure trove of nursing information. The Qbank is comprehensive in that it offers both content and critical thinking.

Passed with 75 questions using UWorld

Guys, I can't believe it, I passed NCLEX-RN on my second attempt. ?

Here's what I did on my NCLEX journey:

1st Attempt:

Saunders

Did 1550 questions 3 times and took lots of notes.

Kaplan Qbank

Finished all the questions, scored 65% average, typed out hundreds of pages of notes and memorized notes 10 times over.

Kaplan QTrainers 4 to 6

Took it few days before exam with average score 61%

I studied assiduously. I dedicated my days, afternoon, nights to NCLEX. I was thrilled to reach the desired "passing" score Kaplan recommends.

Exam Day: December 8, 2015

On the exam day, however, my NCLEX exam felt nothing like Kaplan. 15 questions into the NCLEX, my heart was pounding as I was guessing my way with each question. What a nightmare! It was as if I can almost hear Beethoven's 5th Symphony playing in the background.

The exam churned out 265 questions, in which time I was no longer critically thinking from the panic and anxiety. I took breaks during the exam, but the breaks did nothing to relieve the stress. I felt like vomiting after finishing exam.

A week later, I get my CPR results: 1 above passing, 1 below passing, the rest near passing. Failed! ?

2nd Attempt:

Clearly, Kaplan did not work for me. So I decided to change my game plan. This time around I used LaCharity PDA and got a 3 month and 1 week subscription to UWorld.

LaCharity PDA:

This book is very helpful and a needed study supplement. I am foreign educated, so I had no clue about delegation LPN, UAP etc.

I did this book 2 times, typed notes up to Chapter 9. I did not bother with the case studies in the back.

UWorld:

I only finished 1475 questions out of the 1840 questions with an overall average of 64%.

My initial average was 56% and climbed very slowly to 64%. I was plugging in 10-12 hours a day studying for 3 and a 1/2 months.

I would do a 75-questioned exam and then type out 100-paged notes (using font size 20 times new roman). I only did 75 questions every 5-6 days, but spent the majority of the time typing notes and memorizing the notes.

For this, I did lots of active learning. I would close my typed notes and recite them out loud from memory. My Dad would check if my memory work was correct. I would memorize each 100-paged notes 5 times until perfect. As I do not have photographic memory - doing this helped me enormously. I retained information better and had faster recall. I had about 1300 pages of memorized notes. I went over all of them one last time 3 days before the exam.

Reading the Qbank is only passive learning, I feel. Give the voluminous information, it is impossible to retain information just by mere reading. Also, cranking out 200 questions a day on the Qbank is not ideal. I believe in quality over quantity. I didn't even get to finish the Qbank.

Exam Day: March 30, 2016

My exam had 75 questions. 43 of my questions were SATA, 3 exhibits, 5 priority questions, the rest multiple choice, no math, 2 pharma questions.

I thought the NCLEX exam was ridiculously easy. For over 3 months of grinding away at UWorld, the real NCLEX looked like child's play. There was not one question on the NCLEX that wasn't discussed in UWorld. UWorld discussed all topics to death and in such intricate detail. Even the UWorld SATA's were infinitely harder than the NCLEX SATA. By my 75th question, I was 100% sure the exam would shut down.

Just got my exam quick results: PASSED :up:

Okay, for those of you taking it a second time or more. I hope this helps. Do not give up and be willing to put in the long hours of study. Your NCLEX success is possible. ?

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Congratulations. Did u only use Uworld and PdA book to pass this time? No other materials?

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congratulations, do you still have access to your uworld or expired

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Lnzsay said:
Congratulations. Did u only use Uworld and PdA book to pass this time? No other materials?

Thanks! Yes, I only used UWorld and PDA.

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Dh16585 said:
congratulations, do you still have access to your uworld or expired

I'm so sorry my UWorld already expired March 24th. I would have given it if my account was still active. :(

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Congrats well done!!

Im also a ING and had no idea about delegation and also using the lacharity book.

I literally just finished Uworld today with overall performance of 54 percent (ouch). I wrote down the rationals of all the questions i got wrong and of questions i got right but didnt fully understand. My test date is may 14, im going to use this month to review the rationals i wrote and continue grinding away at Uworld and these ridiculously hard questions.

Again congrats!! you just gave me a burst of inspiration to continue trusting in Uworld.

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Congrats on your passing. Do you mind sharing your notes?

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Faith15 said:
Congrats on your passing. Do you mind sharing your notes?

Thank you so much! My notes were directly copied from UWorld questions and rationales. As much as I want to share them, it wouldn't be fair or possibly even illegal to disseminate UWorld's intellectual property on-line.

Just do Uworld and take notes. Taking your own notes is actually a good thing! I remembered information better since I remembered physically typing them.

Best wishes on your exam!:)

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Congratulations Wendy!

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congrats wendy..i would like to ask did u tried pvt trick

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Many shimmering, glimmering thanks everyone! :)

@Shiningstar123 - I didn't bother with the PVT and just waited the longest 48 hours of my life for the Pearson Vue quick results. lol.

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ok..i tried pvt and got the bad pop up..and after few hours got the unofficial results that i failed..

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