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Thank you all. I forgot to mention that you Will need and WILL have to ask for ear plugs because the constant key strokes of the computer will get on your nerves and make you lose focus. You can not bring your own ear plugs they have to be ask for and supplied by the testing center.

To be honest with you. I have not read that enormous blue Kaplan book since the second class day that we learned the "Kaplan tree" thingy and I have not watched any of the videos. Since graduation all I have done was answer question after question. Went through three review books (1 of the 3 includes the review book we used in school), 1cd-rom, and the Kaplan online questions. Don't stress yourself out and over do it. Just answer questions. From those questions and rationales you will learn things that you never knew before.

Making flash cards not only waste time that you could have used to answer questions, but is also another form of memorization, which is a bad thing to do. Memorizing questions will not benefit you on the NCLEX-RN. Also, make sure that you don't jump for the first answer you see because majority of the time most of the answers are correct, but you have to select the most important answer. If you narrow it down to two answers reread the question and the two answers and select the best one.

I actually liked that book and cd-rom better than the online Kaplan questions. I feel as though the only thing that Kaplan helped me with was how to break down the question to see what was actually being asked

No Kaplan did not work for me with the SATA and alternative questions. Use this book for practice: It's like $19 NCLEX-RN® 250 New-Format Questions: Preparing for the Revised NCLEX-RN® (Nursing Review Practice) ISBN-10: 1582554730 ISBN-13: 978-1582554730

I totally agree with you completely. The purpose of the NCLEX-RN is to see if you can critically think through situations that they give to you while also practicing in a SAFE manner. It's all about about protecting the patient as well as yourself from harm of any kind.

Hello All, The Day Before the Exam I took NCLEX-RN this past Friday 6/20/08 in Atlantic City (A.C.) at 8am. The night before the exam my friend and I practiced questions on Kaplan's QBank/Question Trainer and Saunders Q&A 3rd Ed.. I earned average of 60-63% on each section that I created on QBank and 80% on Saunders questions. At around 8pm we started doing the medication questions on the Saunders Cd-Rom disc. Thank goodness we did because they were very beneficial.. I was struggling with meds before doing those questions. I mean I knew the classes and some side effects but something wasn't processing before then. Exam Day We left the hotel at 7am to try to find some place to sit down and eat breakfast. It was just our luck that everything in the area of Atlantic City that we were in is closed until 730am including the restaurants in the casinos. Our anxiety is increasing now because we have in our mind that we are going to have to take boards on an empty stomach. While walking around still trying to find something to eat we came across a police officer that told us that there was a McDonald's Express in the area, which was actually four blocks from the testing center. So, we got breakfast sandwiches from there and made our way to the testing center, signed in, got finger printed and photographed, and begun our test. I had lots of select all that apply questions (about 12), math questions (7), place the X on the correct place on the diagram (5), general questions (62). My total questions 86 in 2hours. My friend's total questions 75 in 2 hours. We had planned to stay in A.C. for the remainder of the weekend, but the anxiety that we had before the test increased because now we wanted to know our results (but had to wait until Sunday) On Sunday we paid for the online Quick Results ($7.95) and saw the most beautiful :loveya:and uplifting words next to status... PASS . Now we are just waiting for Pennsylvania state board to issue our license numbers so we could start our new jobs. Words of Encouragement To all of the current nursing graduates of 2008, have confidence and faith in the knowledge you have gained in the past 2 or 4years of schooling, do practice questions, review rationales even when you get the answer correct, and you will do fine. :up:Good Luck to ALL:up:

Hi, I took the NCLEX-RN this past Friday 6/20. I really recommend that you DO NOT try to cram all of that content into your brain. The anxiety we go through when we sit for the test is already enough. When preparing for the NCLEX I didn't go back to cram any content after graduation. I took the Kaplan review, practiced Saunders Q&A 3rd Ed. and Kaplan QBank/question trainer questionsONLY, and ONLY reviewed topics that I either did not know or did not understand the rationale to. For example, when first starting the Saunders review book I did not know what Raynaud's disease was so I read the rationale to get a better understanding and just remembered that. The day before my NCLEX exam I did questions on the Saunders cd-rom for the book and edition listed above (even though everyone says not to). I highly recommend that you review the medications on that cd-rom because it is a great review. Hope this helped. And sorry for the long post