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Personally, in the current hiring enviornment, I think anybody who is considering BSN vs ADN needs to go for a BSN. I know in my city, most of the major hospitals are BSN only, and even those that look at ADN's, only a small percent of new grads have an ADN. I just graduated with a BSN a couple months back and a large amount of people in my class are still searching for jobs. In addition, the people I've spoken to who graduated with ADN's in the last couple years mentioned how many of their classmates took months or even over a year to find a hospital job. A lot of them had to resort to working in a LTC facility while they waited. I've read San Antonio is a little more ADN friendly, but DFW and Houston is brutal right now even for BSN's. I think the extra pre-reqs and time are more than worth the better job prospects. If you can in any way make it work, go for the BSN.

I just took the NCLEX for the first time Wednesday afternoon. My test stopped at 75Q and I got the good popup, so hopefully I'll have good news Friday afternoon. I did the Hurst review as well and over the past week I did all six of my Qreviews. I also got around 85-95 right on each one (which is around 65-75% correct). Like the person above said, the most important thing is to take each one and then be sure to read and the study rationales for each question, even the ones you got correct. I believe one of the lectures says that if you are getting at least 50% right on the qreviews, you are in good shape. I also read somewhere on this site that Kaplan also says that getting over 50% on practice tests is a good sign. Good luck!