randolfscott

Hello folks. I was one of the unfortunate ones in June, 2017 who took 265 questions my first time at the NCLEX and was unsuccessful in passing. I had used only Kaplan with a focus on completing the entirety of the q-bank along with all the question trainers, readiness tests, and reading through the rationals rather than a focus on content review. I was so close to passing that I didn't know what to do or where to start after that first attempt. I contemplated taking the Kaplan 4-day class again and signed up for 'Brilliant-RN' which turned out to be more scammy than getting you ready for the NCLEX. I realized at some point I needed more content review to know more things and while searching I came across the NCSBN NCLEX review. I purchased the $70 - 5 week course which was scheduled out to studying 4 hours a day 5 days a week. The content review was okay, a lot of reading. I skimmed through the stuff I knew and was done with the review in like 2 1/2 weeks. I started in on the questions and I thought they seemed more similar to the NCLEX ones. I did the whole 1300 question bank and supplemented like 50-75 Kaplan questions a day. It took the whole 265 questions again but I managed to pass in August 2017. While taking the test I did notice that there were many more similarities to the questions from the NCSBN questions than from Kaplan's. I know the stress from having an unsuccessful attempt at the NCLEX thus I wanted to share with folks that the NCSBN's NCLEX review was pretty legit in getting me over the hump to pass. I have no experience with like Hurst or ATI or other NCLEX reviews that I heard are good so I don't really know the validity of them. I also read that they could be pricey? Either way, the NCSBN review was worth the $70 to me.