EricShepherd

Cubano30, What helped me study was when I got a question right or wrong, I looked at the rational why i got the question right or wrong. I do not know your knowledge background so please so not take anything that I say the wrong way. When I studied, I read about 300-400 questions a day for 1 1/2 months. Whenever I missed a question or got a question right just from guessing I wrote down the rational on why I got it wrong and any information that I did not know about. Every night before bed I would take 30 minutes and read my notes that I wrote down. This I believed helped my pass the NCLEX because I found questions that were on the NCLEX that I wrote down in my notes. Saunders was a good book when I was studying and I have heard that Suzanne is also good but I have no experience with that one. Which ever one you choose, Always look at the rational regardless if you got it right or wrong, because a lot of times (for me anyways) there was things in the rational that I did not know and helped me a great deal. I learned most of the infectious control measures from this website. There is a forum that had a great deal of information that helped me remember the infectious control. I cannot remember were it is on this website. Can anyone else help with me find this forum? I hope this helps a little and did not confuse you. Let me know if you need anything else.

My school also used ATI and had to pass with a level 2 or higher to go to the next class. The problem with ATI is that it is mostly knowledge based. NCLEX is not a knowledge based test. It tests you on how you can apply your knowledge in a certain situation. I barely received a level 2 on my ATI testing and found it very little help when it came to taking the NCLEX. I had to play the game my school was playing since they wanted the ATI tests and I had no option in the deal. I had to use the ATI. ATI does help you build you knowledge base and gives you pretty good rational but I would not recommend using it solely for studying for the NCLEX. I had one girl in my class that did great on the ATI during the school always getting a high level 2 and level 3 and she got a big head and decided not to study for the NCLEX and just use the ATI. She failed. Passed the 2nd time but none the less failed. I would use the ATI for the knowledge part of the studying and don't use it solely for the NCLEX.

For everyone that is wondering if Kaplan review course is worth the money, let me reassure you that it is NOT. I just got through taking the Kaplan course and it is not worth the 450 dollars that they charge. I did all the Q banks and question trainers and received about 55 to 60 % on all of them. I thought that it would have helped me when I went to take the NCLEX but it did not. The questions were not even close to the way Kaplan taught. They even contradicted themselves on the rational on several questions, particularly the infectious control pertaining to the droplet, airbourne, and contact. Yes, there was some good pointers that they give but nothing that you cannot find over the internet or in any other review book. They only study guide that I actually saw very similar questions to the NCLEX was the NCLEX 3500 website. NCLEX 3500 is a free website to. I have to give them credit for helping me pass the NCLEX the first time with only 88 questions. So please keep you money and buy 20 books worth of questions and answers. Even this website "allnurses" helped a great deal.