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I would also like to add HOW I used Uworld. At first, I did it subject by subject. I would do approximately 25 questions in each area, write down the pertinent rationales in a notebook, and then do another 25 until I had used them all. I found this very effective and when I would go back to read all my notes, it was nice to have them grouped together. HOWEVER, it was quite time consuming and as my test date approached, I decided to stop doing that. I managed to make it through most of peds, endocrine, cardiac, GI, renal, oncology/hematology, and fundamentals. Once I was about 2 weeks from my test date, I just did random tests of 50 to 75 questions and wrote down the rationales I found to be important. If you can do it, I recommend hand writing the rationales. I found the content stuck better that way. And it was nice to get a variety of topics on these tests just as the NCLEX was! I did my first self assessment 2 weeks before and scored a “high” chance of passing. It was at this point that I decided to do random questions instead of system by system. I took my second self assessment 5 days before and I moved up to a “very high” chance and scored in the 86th percentile. I hope this helps!!!

After spending hours reading countless posts about the NCLEX-RN, I promised myself I would make a post of my own to hopefully help out future students preparing for NCLEX! I passed yesterday in 75 questions!! Sorry in advance for the long post. First, I used UWORLD, Hurst, Saunders, and LeCharity for studying. I HIGHLY recommend UWorld!!!! I think that every nursing student should use it, the rationales are so detailed, the questions are challenging and really helped me tackle SATA and priority questions. I don’t think I would have passed without uworld and I would highly recommend getting a package with the 2 self assessments. Also, the NCLEX was identical to UWorld. Exact same layout, colours, and fonts, which made me feel so much better during my exam. Hurst was excellent for content review, I personally was weak in my content and Hurst really simplified it. However, I didn’t find the Hurst questions THAT great and the rationales weren’t nearly as thorough as uworld. I found the questions quite hard for the most part, which was good in a sense, but I scored MUCH lower on all my tests and self assessments compared to my uworld scores. I scored below the “necessary score” on all 4 of my hurst self assessments and still passed NCLEX in 75 questions. This had me feeling extremely discouraged, so I stopped using hurst for questions and solely used uworld. BUT I truly don’t think I would have really understood my core content without Hurst!!! Hurst gave me a lot of trucks that really helped me while writing NCLEX. As for Saunders, I used it in the beginning and stopped because I found the questions far too easy. It was a great resource to refer to when I needed a deeper understanding of a weak area, but the content was kind of dry. LeCharity was great for priority questions, but I wouldn’t use it as a main study resource. My biggest piece of advice: stick to one or two resources. I found myself to be getting really overwhelmed using even 3 and found some of the content was conflicting. Do yourself a favour and find one MAIN resource (uworld!!!) and a secondary one for extra content. As for the NCLEX itself... I felt absolutely horrible after my exam. I felt defeated and hopeless. I felt like I totally bombed it and cried my entire drive home. I had a lot of SATA, priority/who would you see first, and health teaching. REMEMBER; the NCLEX isn’t supposed to be easy. You’re not supposed to walk out feeling confident. BREATHE and have faith in yourself. Don’t beat yourself up if you feel like you failed - it happens to most of us and is totally normal! I did the Pearson Vue trick and got the good pop up, but keep in mind this isn’t 100% accurate. I found out my results less than 24 hours later!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL☺️