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I took NCLEX-RN twice. The first time I got 265 questions. I studied just Hurst (Live review) and did all the practice questions on the website (5 tests). I FREAKED out when my computer got to about 150. BIGGEST MISTAKE!!! Do not let it get to you!. 2 other people in my class got 265 and they passed because they kept their cool. I on the other hand, have anxiety issues and it wasn't good. The second time I read through my Hurst book one more time (which is only content). I bought the 2010-2011 Kaplan review book for $35, the Lacharity book ($25), and i studied the isolation precautions sweetmya that has been passed around on here and i felt COMPLETELY confident walking into that test center EXACTLY 46 days later. I passed with about 90 questions!! And with 90% of my answers I felt completely confident. I highly recommend Lacharity and Kaplan! They helped SOOO much!!! Good Luck everyone!!! :) -Ashley P.S.- If you have anxiety problems I HIGHLY recommend hiding the number counter in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I hid it at 78 and thats the best thing i could have ever done! ****Oh, and it is completely untrue that they give you the topic you did bad on the 1st time. I had pretty much NO questions about the topics i had trouble with last time.

Hurst is GREAT for content. Pretty much ALL you need to know the most of is in that workbook, but no infection control. There is some stuff on their website but it really doesnt help at all. All you need to know about that is the sweetmya that has been on numerous threads. Kaplan is great for the "HOW's" like How to answer the question and how to reword it, etc. Lacharity is great for delegation! 3 books seems like a lot, but they all focus on different things. but i studied for just a week the second time. 6 hours a day and felt 100% confident walking in there and passed with 90. (The first time i took it in June i only did hurst and got 265 and failed). Saunders is just overwhelming to me! It's SOOOO much and so small print. Whew it scared me, i did dable into the practice questions though. :) I hope this helps!

I took NCLEX-RN twice. The first time I got 265 questions. I studied just Hurst (Live review) and did all the practice questions on the website (5 tests). I FREAKED out when my computer got to about 150. BIGGEST MISTAKE!!! Do not let it get to you!. 2 other people in my class got 265 and they passed because they kept their cool. I on the other hand, have anxiety issues and it wasn't good. The second time I read through my Hurst book one more time (which is only content). I bought the 2010-2011 Kaplan review book for $35, the Lacharity book ($25), and i studied the isolation precautions sweetmya that has been passed around on here and i felt COMPLETELY confident walking into that test center EXACTLY 46 days later. I passed with about 90 questions!! And with 90% of my answers I felt completely confident. I highly recommend Lacharity and Kaplan! They helped SOOO much!!! Good Luck everyone!!! :) -Ashley,RN :) :) :) P.S.- If you have anxiety problems I HIGHLY recommend hiding the number counter in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I hid it at 78 and thats the best thing i could have ever done! ****Oh, and it is completely untrue that they give you the topic you did bad on the 1st time. I had pretty much NO questions about the topics i had trouble with last time.

I retake mine August 10 for the 2nd time! Ah! i'm so nervous! I really am thinking about pushing it back to maybe study more and more.. but i don't know if i can fit any more info in my brain. How did ya'll know you were ready to take it?

I just took my test in June and got all 265 and failed as well. I also took the Hurst review (which i decided not to remediate and to get my money back) I think it was a great review of content, but that's only 1/2 the battle. I bought the Kaplan NCLEX-RN 2010 review book and it is really helping me understand how to break down questions. It gives you some methods to use which really do work. I also bought the LaCharity book, but i have not started that one yet. I retest on August 10 so I really won't know how well these will help until then but it's making me feel more confident already.