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im off to take my test... wish me luck and pray for me guys.

yeah my kaplan instructor also 65% is where you'd want to be at but 200+ questions can be pretty exhausting.... i should definitely learn to take breaks and not just plow through them.

Guys... i've been getting consistent 50-60% on all my Question trainers and plan on taking my NCLEX this Monday. I need a boost of confidence, i just finished question trainer 7 and got a 62% and i also got a 60% on trainer 6. Anybody remember there scores and passed the exam? let me know... i can use a boost as im starting to get anxious over this test. I hear Kaplan purposely makes the test difficult so students adjust to the question style and format. Thanks. QBANK score is 63% overall... completed.

3 days till D day for me... been doing hundreds of practice questions and so far im averaging 60%... i hope it's enough to put me over the passing hump for the real thing.

Hello fellow May test takers. im taking mine this Monday the 5th at 0800 via Westlake Village out here in Los Angeles. Im a first time test taker and have completed all my Kaplan studies. I don't think you ever truly feel ready to take this test but at this point i'd just like to get it over with and try my best. my prayers are with all of you. good luck!

Im getting around 60% to 70% as well and getting ready to take NCLEX this Monday. Thanks all for the encouraging posts.

Im also taking my test this monday. First time. I took kaplan and my grades are hovering around the mid to high 60's. My overall QBank score is 65%. According to Kaplan that is borderline passing and have had good results with students averaging the same. From what fellow classmates as well as upper classmen have been telling me to do a week before your test is to do atleast 100 questions a day up until the last day before your test. They said you should watch a movie and have a good dinner. Get a good amount of rest and eat a well balanced breakfast before the test. Arrive at the test center 30 min. early and take a walk and pray. Take your time during the test and follow the decision tree kaplan preached.

thanks... love mnemonics! taking my test this Monday the 5th.

thanks... i noticed at the beginning of testing i do pretty well but as the questions pile on i get lazy and start flying through it making careless mistakes. i took my time with Question trainer 6 and got a 78%... kaplan's strategies and the decision tree are helping but i cant seem to apply it to half the questions asked. im encountering a ton of "knowledge" based questions but from what i was told was to practice on priority type questions such as who should you see/call first, triage, delegation, and teaching questions. i am learning quite a bit just by reading rationales and reviewing content from questions im unfamiliar with. my scores have been getting better and kaplan suggests to be averaging atleast a 60% in QBank... as it stands now i have a 68% and my question trainer scores are getting progressively better. Thanks for the advice.

talked to a few of the alumnis who also took kaplan and they said they were getting similar scores if not lower... encouraging news but i still plan on doing about 200 to 300 test questions a day. i can't find the motivation to review the book unless i am utterly clueless with the question. hopefully it pays off... getting pretty tired of just studying. would like to get the test over with.

I take my NCLEX RN on May 5th and i have slowly been increasing the amount of studying ive been doing. I graduated in December but didn't really start getting into it until March. All i've been studying is test questions and reading hte rationales and reviewing the rationales or content im unfamiliar with. i took kaplan and the instructor said most of the test is Priority, delegation, precautions and of course some SATA. I've been doing about 200 questions a day and carefully reviewing each one. I'm doing fairly well with Saunders but Kaplan im getting about high 50's to 60's on the question trainers and about the same with Q Bank. Am i doing ok with my studying? should i be reading hte comprehensive book more or should i just continue doing test questions. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks all.

taking mine on May 5th at 8AM. wish me luck, been so lazy lately with all the studying. first time taker.