Please Help me with SATA!

Don't get overwhelmed by the thought of having SATA on your exam. Instead, treat it as any other question and know that it will be weighed equally just like the multiple choice. If you put SATA questions on a pedestal then you'll decrease the importance of the multiple choice questions and those make up the majority of the exam!

From my experience, the SATA questions were straightforward and if you have a good content base, you can answer the question easily. Remember, the NCLEX is not trying to trick you; instead it's trying to see if you know what you should as a new nurse.

If you need to, practice a little more on SATA so that you can get a bit more comfortable with it. But trust me, it won't rule your exam. Treat each question as if it were the only one in your exam and I think you'll do fine!

Good Luck!

NurseThis21, BSN, RN

UIC Alumna

Yes SATA are a pain in the gluteus maximus I agree. The strategy I heard is the best is to:

1. First decide on weather you are looking for something right or something wrong about the particular questions

2. Look at each answer independently of all the others and decide "is this right or wrong" in relation to the question asked

3. Mark and don't second guess or go back and change

Sounds simple but if you apply this it could clear some of the confusion involved with these type of dreadful questions...GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!!

thank you thank you for your tips and words of encouragement!

knowing others got 10-25 satas out of 75 questions scares me.

i really hope and pray that if ever i would be given satas,i won't find them hard ones.much better if i won't get any.

If you google "NCLEX3500" they have tons of practice questions for free and you can select an option to JUST practice the SATA.. but I will say I was doing really bad on the ones I practiced on but when I got to the test I felt they were fairly easy.. so don't be discouraged!

i hope so... I hope i will find them easy. I'm really nervous! this would be my 2nd time. I hope i can pass this time.

Did you guys felt ready before the test or were you confident to pass before the test?

i hope so... I hope i will find them easy. I'm really nervous! this would be my 2nd time. I hope i can pass this time.

Did you guys felt ready before the test or were you confident to pass before the test?

For the test, I felt confident about it during my studying as well as on the big test day. It was kind of like I was psyching myself out in order to not make the test seem scarier than what it really was! However, I did have a healthy dose of anxiety since it was the only thing keeping me from being a registered nurse. I studied for about 8 weeks and by the time my test rolled around, I was either ready or I wasn't! There's just too much info for my little brain, but I felt I had the basics covered.

If you know that you gave it your all throughout your studying then you should be fine. What it all boils down to is confidence in yourself and your ability to pass this test. It's totally possible and I know you can achieve your goal!

I'm not a very religious person, but my mom and auntie said a prayer for me before I took my test and I honestly believe that having a good support system will make things easier for you. If you have friends and family who can send kind words your way then it can make even your darkest hours a little brighter!

Believe in yourself and know that you are capable of great things!!!

NurseThis21, BSN, RN

UIC Alumna

Thanks Nurse21!

His will be done on my test day. I'll leave all up to Him.

COngratulations to you! I wish i will pass just like you guys who passed!:)

SATA is TRUE/FALSE answer. Read every option and see which option correlate with the answer. :typing

read 1st all the options and what i did, i dont know if it is right, i just remove the options that are incorrect. i think every test takers has their own test taking strategies

RNindmaking i would say just practice this week and like KAYBDT6 said think of every option as true or false and once you consider it false dont go back and change it. i too am taking mine for the 2nd time on sept 2nd! and i know we both can do it! we've studied hard and will be RNs! please keep us posted! ill keep you in my prayers

RNindmaking i would say just practice this week and like KAYBDT6 said think of every option as true or false and once you consider it false dont go back and change it. i too am taking mine for the 2nd time on sept 2nd! and i know we both can do it! we've studied hard and will be RNs! please keep us posted! ill keep you in my prayers

thanks nrcolee6! Let's keep believing that we can make it this time just like others who made it the second time. I know it's easy to say " i'm just fine it's only a test." However,at the back of my our minds we're conquered by our anxiety & fears. I leave all up to God. His will be done on my exam.

God bless to us and Goodluck! We can also be RNs.:wink2:

SATA's are not hard or its the problem on the exam. The problem is how they score it. If there are 6 items, you need to choose at least 4 right answer, and you have chosen one of the 4 is wrong, then everything is wrong even tho you choose 3 right answer..ITS UNFAIR dont you think..? that means if you have 7 SATA's on the exam and you got them all wrong..that means you dont get a score at all..this format is BULL...When i first got out of nursing school. All i know NCLEX is just all multiple choices, and now to make it harder for you to pass this damn exam they put this format..and a lot of this format on NCLEX-PN believed me..I blamed this because i think one of the reason why i failed twice its because they put all the high level questions on this format. ..like Infection control and Physiological Adaptations and patient teaching....Good luck..and i know on my next exam ..this will come out..the famous SATA's.