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thanks NurseTurtles! my license has actually been posted on the brn as of today Im a RN!!!!!!!!!

Students - NCSBN Learning Extension try ncbsn, they have a review course as well as s special one for international applicants, plus thry are the ones that write thr nclex, there's a video on their site that explains their resources, . I did kaplan, I only used their online question bank, passed with 75 questions two days ago but they didn't have content review good luck!

thank you and congratulations to you too aswell! I wish I would of known that the SATA where passing questions, it would of kept me calmer during the exam, i was under the impression that SATA where below level questions since they are usually knowledge questions, but the SATA I got where not knowledge questions, they where hard analysis questions. Either way we passed do yay! im in California, so no clue when ill get an official notice or license number, and this is a holiday weekend, of course yhey won't be open till Tuesday. that's great that Florida id on top of things!

So I took the NCLEX-RN yesterday. First question- a regular multiple choice question, then I got like 8 SATA in row!!! I was really stressing out. Got a little teary eyed, but I decided to pray, and move on. Two hours into the test I got prompted to take a break, which I did. By this time I was barely on question 25. After my break I continued with my test, I was so bothered that I kept on getting SATA, but whatever, I kept on telling my self, the test gives us a chance to redeem ourselves and to prove that we are competent. "I am competent, I may not know everything, but I feel that I know enough", is what I kept on telling myself throughout the whole exam. I also kept on praying to God. He was with me, throughout all my struggles during nursing school. He knows all the challenges I went through to be able to graduate, and I know that he was with me the whole time I sat in that chair taking the exam. If I where to pass it would be because God knows I am ready, and I am doing my best to show that I can be a nurse, and If I don't pass, well God's plan is always better than my own plan, maybe he wants me to prepare myself more. I look at the timer and I have just under 2 hours left to take the exam, I am on question #74, at this moment, I prayed again, "Please God, give me a chance to continue" I didn't feel I was doing so well, all my questions where so difficult, I was asked about diseases and medications I was not so sure about. I answered question #75 and my test ends. No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is what I thought to my self, again I can feel myself getting teary eyed, I wanted the test to keep on going, surely I did horrible and now it's over. Four hours later, and 75 questions. I left the testing center, sat in my car for a while and cried. A few hours later, I got the courage to check PVT, and I GOT THE GOOD POP UP!!!! I started to cry again, but out of joy! I still can't believe I passed, the exam was sooooooo hard. I graduated in June, and since then I only prepared by doing Kaplan. I attended the live review course with my class a week after graduation, then I would do 50 questions here and there. It was not until I got my ATT that I really started studying. I scheduled my self, and from there, it was a daily ordeal. I would do 25 questions at a time on Kaplan. My reviews consisted of going back through each question, and if it was a topic I was not to familiar with I would review it using my nursing school texts or just google the topic. I looked up Pnemonics, youtube videos to give me an easy way to memorize certain things that you just have to memorize, like lab values, stages of development, etc. I studied this way, completing the majority of the Kaplan's QBank. I think I was like 200? short of doing it all. I also did the question trainers. Overall my scores where: Q1 69%, Q2 69%, Q3 63%, Q4 63%, Q5 62%, Q6 69%, and Q7 71% According to Kaplan, their questions are harder than NCLEX. Well, with my individual experience, Kaplan was easy! I don't know why they would tell you NCLEX is easier than Kaplan, in my experience it was not. Regardless of that I got the good pop up, I'm waiting for it to be official, unless there is a cruel joke for the PVT making me think I passed when I didn't. As far as studying for NCLEX, I only did Kaplan, but as the days got closer for me to test I started to freak out because I never really focused on reviewing content, other than when I would review my questions. I also payed attention to critical thinking strategies from the rationales from Kaplan. However I found I didn't use the decision tree. I didn't jot down lab values or anything on my white board. I used it as a place to take notes to be able to rationalize a question down. I also kept a tally on how many SATA ?, but when the test ended I was so shocked that I forgot to count them, but I did have a lot of tallies, I'm sure at least 20 questions where SATA. Anyways, this was my experience. Hope someone finds it helpful. Good luck to everyone that is preparing to test!!! Have confidence in yourself and know how to think about each question is the only thing I can say that got me through the test.

if a text book 9on evolve has free online resources u can access them , I had a few textbooks in my account just tob have more practice questions and case studies

what state r u in? I took nclex rn, got good pop up, waiting to be official

to clarify, the first 15 are not practice questions, throughout the exam 15 of the questions that you get are research questions thst the ncsbn is trying out, those don't count against you but they are not the first 15 questions that you get, they are scattered throughout the exam and there is no way to know what those questions are, but its true, start off strong to get yourself above the passing line. if you have kaplan access there is a video that explains how the test works. kaplan told our class the same thing, you want to get the first few questions right to be above the passing line, then if u get every other wrong u are still passing.

I forgot to mention, by any means, are your books from Elsevier? If the are, make an account with them, its free, has a lot of more resources, questions, case studies. https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/store?role=student That is the link, find your textbooks, and use their additional resources. My book for fundamentals was Fundamentals of Nursing by Potter and Perry, and our med/surg book was from Lewis, while the fundamentals text did not have a lot of resources, the med/surg does, it has a lot of practice questions, interactive case studies, and my favorite was the chapter summaries, I would print hose out and take notes on those, and you can also download audio files for the chapter summaries, so I would have them in my ipod to listen to them at the gym, or where ever. Hope this helps!

Looks like you got slapped in the face by the reality of nursing school. I do not mean it in an offensive way, by all means, that is just what happened to me ass well. Or at least that is how I took it. The good think is that now you know that briefly scanning the chapters will not get you buy. I'm sure you have heard of the term "a C is the new A in nursing school"? I had the same reality check two years ago when if first started nursing school. ALways got good grades didn't really have to study, but boy did that chance once I started. Keep motivated you will make it! I just graduated this June, and when it really gets hard remind your self that if all the other nurses before you went through this same experience and now are out there in the field, you can make it as well. If nursing school was impossible, we would have no nurses. By nursing school is survival of the fittest, don't get left behind! As far as your instructors go, there are instructors out there that are that way. I did not enjoy my OB lectures for that matter, 75% of class time spent on how hard she had it as a minority in the field, the rest of the time of some solid content coverage, then we would get our exams on different chapters. Ugh.... I thinks that's a reason why I do not care much for OB, but managed to pass that semester. Wishing you the best! Stay motivated, avoid, by all means, AVOID the negative people that always make the entire class doubt their skills, and not the instructors, but your fellow classmates. You will need all the positiveness in the world to get by. And trust me, time will go by soo fast, before you know it it will e winter break!

RN, thanks, I am literally quarantined to my house till then, trying to finish the kaplan qbank!

Congratulations to the two of you, hope to be in the same shoes as you 11 days from now =)

Thanks, I will be borrowing a Saunders book from my classmate to go over as well. You do have a point about different wording for the questions, my pet peeve is when values or procedures vary from source to source Im motivated to finish kaplan qbank this weekend! Thanks, good luck to you!!

Hello all! I am scheduled for NCLEX Aug 29. So far I have only done Kaplan, since it was sort of forced on us from my school. I payed for it, so might as well use it. Anyone here that only used Kapla, how helpful did you find it? I am afraid to start looking into different resources, because I don't want to be all over the place with my studying. So far I just do questions, 25 at a time, and review them, procedures, diseases, meds that I don't remember when I review the questions I look them up and takes notes on them. So far that's my routine. However with Kaplan there is so content review, was thinking about purchasing the NCSBS review, I saw their video on it, looks like they have a lot more information and resources than Kaplan, plus they are the ones that write the exam, also the 3 week review is only $50. How do you feel about using multiple resources? Especially since I am less than 2 weeks away. My overall average on the Qbank in 68%, I'm just worried that I haven,t done much content review. Any feedback would be appreciated! Thanks!!

You can do it! And congrats on getting back on the game! I also graduated hs in 03, and 10 years later, this summer just finished my ADN for RN. I had a couple of my classmates over 50 yrs. Your advantage is you are more mature and have a clear goal, and you are realistic on the time it will take you to complete pre-reqs. Good luck to you!!

I am guilty to highlighting about 80% of my book. However there is a method and a reason to my highlighting madness. Its color coded!!! :) Yellow- important topics Orange- points my instructor mentioned in lecture Pink -nursing interventions Blue- medications Green- patho Made it easier when I had to go back and study for finals.