Jskinne1

I Passed MY NCLEX-RN. This gave me some hope along with God!

You are my inspiration! I had 265 questions as well and was depressed yesterday! I did the PVT trick as well and the good pop up keeps coming up. My faith is boosted and my fingers are crossed

I sure do hope the PVT trick work for me. I took my N-clex this morning and got the full 265 questions. After that I've been crying all day. I haven't had an appetite, I have an head ache, I don't even want to talk to anyone but Jesus! LOL! (seriously) It's that bad, but I tried this trick and I pray to God it works. If it does I'll be back here to tell you all about it. Thanks for the encouraging post and the new instilled hope.

Congrats on making it into nursing school! It's a very exciting time in your life. I know when I first started nursing school it was for me! As a graduate of nursing school I'd thought I reach out to those who are trying to get through and give you 15 tips on how I survived nursing school. 1) I trusted in God and leaned on my higher being for strength. 2) I never listened to negative people. There are a lot of negative people in nursing school and you have to separate yourself from that thought process. 3) I never accepted failure or settled for less. In nursing school you'll find out that you won't always pass every exam the first time or get an A the first time, but what counts is that you do even better the next time. 4) I never procrastinated. When you do things ahead it creates less stress. 5) Work as a team with your classmates. There will be some people you probably won't get along with, but you need each other to make it through. It's a team effort. 6) I always was humble and remembered why I was becoming a nurse. Going to Clinical helped me to remember why I wanted to be a nurse. 7) Make time for yourself!!!! I had an outlet, which helped me to refuel my fire to persevere. 8) Find out ways to study that work for YOU!!! (most crucial). I mainly studied by myself initially, then I would get with classmates just to see if I missed anything from class notes. 9) Try to get good rest and eat a good breakfast before class. I'm a morning person, so I would wake up early before class eat a light breakfast. When you do this, you are giving your brain what it needs to receive new information. 10) On big test days I would take time before the test to rest my mind. We used ATI Proctored exams and before my exams I would always workout, eat and rest. You don't want to be tired mentally. 11) Learn your weak test taking areas and work on them. It took until my junior year to pin point my weak areas. Once you find out what you are weak in, such as: not reading the question all the way or reading too much into the question, work on it. 12) Know that nursing exams aren't always what you know, it's how you use what you know. Study hard and relate topics to each other. Concept mapping is what I used to relate topics. 13)Seek help if your not getting a certain topic. It's best to seek help from the instructor. It's better to be truthful that you don't know something,then to fake like you do and fail or God forbid endanger a patient. Seek to learn something new. 14) Be confident in what you know! No one wants you taking care of them if your scared to do things. As a nurse you have to just do it! I always wanted the most challenging simulations or patient's so I could learn. Go for what your afraid of!!! 15) Last but not least, Know that you can do it! Never settle for less, but the best!!!! If you work hard consistently, you will yield results!! I know you all can do it!!!! God Bless!

Thank you for this! i took a kaplan review course and I'm doing I've been doing 100 questions everyday for about 4 weeks. i take my exam next week.

Congrats to you!!!

I agree with everyone else when they say work on the weak areas. I got a 55% total on the qbank questions so far and a 61% on the readiness test. My qbanks would be 50's, 60's, few 70's. I am reviewing content as well, I always do 50 question q bank. Focus on what the questions are asking you and use the strategies Kaplan provided, I am taking mine in a week. I wish you many blessing on your exam.

Reading these comments are a blessing. I take my N-Clex in exactly 8 days. I'm doing a lot of questions as well as reviewing some material and working on my weakest areas. My instructor told our class to take trainer 7 3 or two days before testing. I averaged a 55% on the q bank questions and a 61% on the readiness test. Trainer 5 I got a 60%. my goal is to do better on trainer 6 and 7. I know you'll do well on your exam. Wish you many blessings and God will confirm the results for you.

I'm studying with Kaplan and I find it hard to use the decision tree too at times, but I'm trying. I take mine in a week.