MiRNVice

Sure no worries. What is your email address?

Hello, I am also now studying for the NCLEX I plan to write in the summer. I live in Toronto. I am going to take a class with performance edge...I got their info at the last career fair. I find that I mess up when it comes with comprehension of multiple choice questions.

Hello, Sorry to hear that you failed...I did too. I plan to write in the summer. What tools did you use the first time you wrote the exam?

Hey Joe, I know what your going through. Like you I wrote my NCLEX 2 times and failed. I just wrote my second exam this past Saturday. I did the pearson vue trick and it brought me to the cc screen so I knew I failed the second time around. I found that for my exam I had ALOT of priority and pharmacology questions, two areas that I struggled with when I was prepping for my exam. I am waiting for my performance review from the Florida State Board before I start studying for the third time. Like you I am frustrated, who really wants to study for this exam again? Not me!!! But It is what it is and I am manning up because I want to move from Toronto Canada to Florida to continue my nursing career. I graduated from nursing school in 2009 and I am a practicing RN in Emergency in Toronto Canada. The Canadian and American exams are totally different. For my first exam I used the Kaplan online review and I did not find the lectures, the review book or customer service to be helpful at all. I was missing a section in the pharmacology lecture and no one knew what I was talking about...Talk about a waste of money and time. I was doing the review questions that come with the program and I was scoring in the low 60's. Needless to say I wrote, had 76 questions which was a blur and Failed. The second time I took the Hurst Review and I found it helpful. I did a live review, had a teacher who was helpful, a nursing textbook and documents from their website. You are also given 6 different tests of 125 questions. I had a saunders textbook which i started to use but got turned off by the in-depth content in the book. On the tests I was averaging about mid 60's. I failed yet again. This time I had 265 questions. So my third go at the test will be different. I plan to utilize the information that comes with the saunders 5th edition textbook. They have a prep-cd that looks at your current knowledge. Depending on your score they breakdown a study schedule (Usually a month) that you follow enabling you to work on your strengths and weaknesses. This time around I will read the whole book, covering my basic nursing skills. I plan to buy the LaCharity Delegarion and Prioritizing Book and read that from cover to cover as I found that my test was loaded with questions on these items. Saunders also has an in-depth pharmacology review that I will utilize. Some other areas that I know I am weak in are thyroid, math, mental health, diabetes. I found some good videos on you tube, a nursing school from the university of maui placed some lectures online that was helpful...even though I only sat through a quarter of the items. I hope this helps, try to think positive. Your are not the only one in this boat...Best of luck