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Kit: It sounds to me like you are more than ready. I got a 70% on my NCLEX predictor and was told by ATI that I was 91% sure to pass NCLEX on the first attempt. I did! You are ready girl!!!! GO FOR IT and have the confidence ... you CAN DO IT! Don't lose yourself inside your head....you will be fine :-) Truly!!!

Don't be a killer nurse and PEE before you start your test! Good luck you will do great! Tuesday

Kit: I don't know what trainer 7 is...but my scores were always very low with ATI between 60's and 70's with an overall average of maybe 78%. I passed NCLEX first time. Relax, breathe and pee (alot). I know how you feel...I had to retake a class five weeks before graduation and I was paralyzed (and almost passed out during the test) with the fear of flunking out and not being able to continue on. Personally, each score and test (ATI, Hurst, whatever) seemed different and each has their own benchmark I believe. Does trainer 7 have a personal coach or trainer? I wonder if your scores are still within passing NCLEX range. For example, I felt as if I should be scoring higher on all my tests, but they kept reassuring me that I was fine and above 90% in passing NCLEX first time. Does this help?! Sorry, I'm still in shock at having passed and receiving my license. Tuesday

Thanks Kit86! I'm glad I could put a smile on your face :-)

No. You must answer questions...but take your best guess and move on. I did :-)

mcunanan: Seriously I do not believe that ANYTHING prepared me for NCLEX. I did use Hurst review (a little), ATI (a lot of questions) and review for labs and meds. I had 24+ SATA, one drag and drop and a ton of priority questions. I think if you just aren't a killer nurse and know your fundamentals well, you will be fine. After it was all over ... for me anyway ... I thought "much ado about nothing"...just my opinion. Good luck :-)

It is official! I am an RN! Who needs sex and a smoke if you can pass NCLEX? LOL

And they say around here that "we don't eat our young." They actually eat us, spit us out and stomp on us. No worries, you have a great attitude and will do great! Those who have the attitudes are those that will struggle in the "real world" of nursing. Keep on being you!

I will and thanks to all :-)

Drove 3 hours yesterday...could not eat...checked into nice suite to treat myself which happened to be across the parking lot from the Pearson center...thought it made sense. It didn't! I stared at the entrance all day and night long wondering "how I would feel when I walked out those doors after the big test...couldn't sleep...couldn't eat...hated the nice room and REALLY hated the Pearson center that I could see from my window all night! Woke up...peed...couldn't eat again...felt like I was having a stroke...maybe the bird flu...something...maybe going into shock. Walked across the parking lot...checked in like a fugitive (fingerprints, palm scan, picture up against a wall)...peed again...put keys and drivers license in locker...told to put papers in locker too. Did that...peed again. Went into the room...stuffed the ear plugs in my ears...put the head phones over those to keep the sound out...started the tutorial...finished tutorial...thought I'd puke. Started the test and BAM! Didn't know the first several questions...went blank...closed eyes and prayed to the Gods for something...PLEASE GOD something....looked around the room for my marbles...then remembered "they are videotaping me"....eyes back on the test... Almost two hours later...question 95...WHAT!? I didn't flunk at 75! Still in the game, right? Didn't pass either...*&&^^%%^**...BUCK UP! Every question now is pass or fail...big deep breaths...prayed to every God I know of...at question 118..screen went blank...mind as well...took off the ear phones, pulledsd the plug out of ears...barely got into the bathroom before I peed myself...left with lady smiling saying good luck...whatever. Drove 3 hours home...still can't eat...surprised I can still pee...but I did...wanted to crawl into bed and sleep...couldn't sleep...kept thinking...PVT...does it work? *&^%...what to do...of course I had to check it out...really started gagging and then....the good pop up came up :-) I ate and haven't peed since! Seriously y'all, relax, try and eat, do NOT study the day before and DO NOT get a hotel room across the parking lot from the (*&^ testing center! Relax and pray to all your higher powers...breathe...pee...breathe...pee...don't kill a patient and pass! Good luck to all...need to go call a urologist....new R.N.!!!

:cheers: Hope I'll be in your place in a week! CONGRATS NEW NURSE AND GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

I hated the ATI exams throughout nursing school and looked at the books with pure hate! As if "we" don't have enough crap to do, right? Now, I am wishing that I would have been a little more focused on ATI. How I am studying for NCLEX: Using a 2007 Kaplan book my sister gave me (she passed in 2007 with 75) ATI virtual online tutor with numerous assessment tests (averaging approx. 70-75%) HURST tests (took a live class during school and now I'm just completing the six tests they offer as study tools) Reviewing the Cram Sheet and othe info received for "FREE" from All Nurses has been great! I have done so many effing questions that my head spins each night (probably 500 per day including my assessment/practice tests). I am only giving myself 4 weeks to study for NCLEX. At this point my mind is mush...I will either be put in the State MH Facility or pass the NCLEX. My nursing school did not have a pharmacology class. We learned on the run with each system, etc. Very disorganized and thus a weak area for most of us. I am sure that you will do fine on the test. Thanks for the good luck! You too! PS I even have a job interview today :-)

Yeah, that extra 1% actually put me over to graduate with honors :loveya: Which means a lot to me!

WOW! You get that many points?! My nursing school only gave us 1% AFTER we met our benchmarks on test scores so that is very generous!! I felt the same way about ATI throughout nursing school and rarely studied it (maybe read through the Q & A at the end of each chapter just before a test, etc.). However, now that I am taking the NCLEX next week they have been invaluable to me using the virtual ATI (online tutor). My suggestion is read through the chapters at the END where is shows the Q & A (rationale) just to get through it. You will have a leg up on the content once you are ready to start studying for NCLEX. Good luck!

My college used the ATI throughout nursing school. We PAID a fortune for those *^%$ tests and I never saw the use in them until I completed school last month and began the ATI Virtual stuff with a tutor online. This was the best part of ATI and helps predict where you sit at graduation and help focus on what you need to study before taking the exam. I did take an additional $350.00 live program from HURST and got a great book to study from. However, I seriously have learned more in the past 3 weeks from my online tutor with one-on-one teaching through ATI. After 3 weeks she gave me the green light to test. Good luck to you!

I have 38+ nursing books. Holy cow! Just graduated with honors and the last few years has been HARD as hell. It is nothing like University BS, etc. Ask anyone who already has a degree. It is hard and only 1/3 of my original class passed.

I too, was taught oxygen first, hydration and then pain relief :-)

To AJ: The Gods are granting all of us April babies unmerited favor!!!! Good luck!:loveya: Tuesday

Hey FutureRN! I am taking mine April 21st! I'm using ATI and Hurst and this site and questions, questions, questions. I just graduated last Friday, so I just began studying about one week ago. I am focusing on Peds and Pharm. Good luck and let me know!

"btw prior to my exam i went to 4 different churches. i guess miracles really happen :saint:" Guess you kind of studied, huh?! :-) CONGRATS!

Our unit secretaries are the cream of the crop CNA's (who wipe many butts every day). Maybe you should work at Dairy Queen or something else.

I just had several of my fellow classmates take their NCLEX. Several said that they had a ton of SATA questions. Especially those who passed with 75 questions. No one said what they were though, sorry. Good luck to you! I too am taking my NCLEX soon (in April).

So, I added a poll....please vote!

I'm buying new "colored" Danskos!

Nikki you were right in addressing the situation. In my school we were told, not if (we get sick or faint), but when (it will happen and how to deal with it)! They are right. Some students just won't fess up. Honestly, the only thing now that can make me sick is thick, green, sticky, nasty mucus (gagging right now)! We all have our demons! You will be fine! Especially if you love what you are doing :-) Good luck!