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O wow so much respect for you!! you will do great! Especially because you used uworld all the best

Here is my story to get my RN status on 3rd Try and my thoughts on Saunders, Kaplan and uworld 1st Try I went to a pretty well known school for nursing and my grades were A/A- for nursimg courses. My clinical evaluations were also always very good. I even got job offers but I had to reject as i was leaving the city. So, when the time came for nclex exam, i decided that my knowledge was enough. I literally did not study at all, solved like 50 questions found randomly online. Worst mistake ever. Fail- 75 questions 2nd try after a big slap in the face, I decided to actually study. I studied off Saunders. I literally read and took notes off every single page. I studies the notes and solved all the 1000 questions in the book twice. I still failed and thought the Saunders questions were way too easy compared to nclex. I believe Saunders and good for content review and basics but does not prepare you for diffult questions. Fail-265 questions 3rd Try This time I used Uworld. It is amazing. Its a question bank and the question types are identical to the actual Nclex. I religiously solved all 1900 questions and took notes on both wrong & correct rationales. I could only do 75-100 questions a day as it took 5 hours to really read, understand and take notes on each question. This ended up taking me around 3 weeks to finish the entire question bank and I had 100 pages of typed up font 10 notes in the end. I then memorized my notes, redid all incorrect & marked questions on uworld. This took about 2 weeks. My uworld percentage average started from high 40s/low 50s and increased to high 60s/low 70s in the end. I was in the 86th percentile in the end. I only did questions sets of 75 questions and nothing less because that would probabaly give me inaccurate results. Pass- 79 questions YES!! Conclusion 1st try- did not study, failed with 75 2nd try- did saudners, failed with 265 3rd try- did uworld, passed with 79 For those of you preparing for nclex, i recommend to set 2 months and use saunders to brush up on basic content and then use uworld to get more indepth knowledge and solve questions. I also looked at Kaplan but found their questions are way more difficult compared to Nclex and doesnt really help you prepare well. Thats the end of my story!! I am now a RN!