dixya

hey guys......... :) this one is gonna be long ..... i am about to rant .. so be prepared n read along at your own risk so i will start with the fact that i m a foreign nurse ... its been around 4 years since i finished my studies ...so i had pretty much involuntarily deleted everything from my mind that i had ever studied !! therefore i set aside around 3 months to get prepared for nclex ... immediately after christmas i started my nclex journey .... my plan was to focus on my content first n foremost .. i started with saunders ... it took me around a month n half to finish it !!! i read it page to page !! let me add .. around 12 hours each day !!! with saunders i set my base .. then i started kaplan's qbank ... my scores in kaplan are : diagnostic 62% qbank 60% qt1 74% qt2 76% qt3 65% qt4 69% qt5 67% qt6 68% qt7 65% i also did pda .. just the 18 chapters... it hits home the P n D questions .... i got anywhere from around 50's to 70's ... i also did lippincott 3500 .. just the alternate questions i was freaking out before taking the qtrainers..... after my scores i settled down a bit cuz i knew i was above the passing standard.... believe me i was a mess.... when my test date was approaching i was so borderline... one moment i would study like i was on 5min energy drink ... next i would sulk around !!! i must have made my husband miserable !! i was positive i would fail .... it was so overwhelmining .... only the fact that my content n qtrainer score were what kept me positive ... . i have always been a crammer so i got around 1 hour of sleep last night ... even then i just could not fall asleep.... so this morning i said a prayer to god n left everything in fates's hand ..... god bless my husband who took leave from his work n waited for me outside the test centre :) i got the following around 15 sata's 10 prioritazation 2 delegation 3 ekg 3 exhibit 2 calculations 15 drugs some teaching questions other's were just here n there and yess i found nclex easier than kaplan ... infact so much so that i was positive that my test would end in 75 questions around halfway through .... i really took a long time getting to the 75 question though ... around 2;45 hrs .. i dont know how i would have finished had i gone beyound 75 !! the questions were pretty straight n easy ... i was like woahhh m i flunking this !!! if i had to pick one and say which did nclex resemble most ... it would probably be kaplan .... the wording was similar . not the questions ... but yes doing kaplan had made me prepared for nclex i dont know why but i had a good feeling once i finished my xm ... cuz i got around 5 straight prioritazation questions from 70 to 75 .... and i was panicking coz i had too little time if my xm went beyound 75 so i was answering without thinking much .. just like how i would have had i been taking it at home !! BUT ... after 75 question the screen went blue ... n i was positive that i had passed ...... just a gut feeling :) so ... i rushed home ... and tried to register n got the good pop up .. went out to have lunch ..n a few shots ..... i had truely worked sooooo hard ... as much as 12 hours a day .... around 15 hrs towards the end ... i really wanted to get this over with ... i didnt know if i could take this again .... most importantly coz i am going back home after 2 years ... i just wanted to put this behind me n enjoy my time back home :).... next week i m going back home i really want thank all the people here in allnurses ... u guys are great ... :) during my most despair state i found motivation to go on by reading the experiences of people here in allnurses ... thats why i wanted to give back to this community n share my experience here..... when i got hopeless i would read about people passing and be a bit more motivated to study n get hope from comparing scores :).... to all the people studying for the test .... it not really as hard as u think .... be calm.. just imagine as if u were giving it as your home ... and ALL THE VERY BEST :)

thank u ... :) just relax ..... i m positive u'll make it ... i'll have u in my prayers

i took nclex today ... n believe me kaplan is way too harder than nclex ... kaplan makes u prepared for the worst .... questions were a lot straight n to the point unlike kaplan .. i found it easier than qt6 or qt7 .... and i got all drugs that i knew of .... n i got the good pop up .... so just believe in yourself ... u got this :)

i felt the same way .... qt7 is way too hard .. i found myself crying halfway through ..!!! n honestly .. i took nclex today and i found it way too easier than nclex especially qt7 !!! if it makes u any better .. dont beat yourself ... kaplan is way too harder than nclex !!! honestly i was like m i flunking ?? cuz the questions were EASY !! n i was used to the hard questions of kaplan ... and i got the good pop up !! so just relax u got this !!

i am praying for us .... i have studied like crazy as well... my husband say's 'in his entire lifetime of studying he has never studied as much as i have in this 3 months' LOL !! shouting out a prayer to god ...... please be with us !!! really need every bit of motivation right now .....

thanx .... n i m freaking out !!! i feel like i know nothing ....

we r on the same boat .... mine is on wednesday .. and i was crying with my husband as well !!! this is crazy ... how can a lousy xm have such a huge impact on our lives !!! damn it ... but i wanna pass this sooooo much ... i dont have the courage to go through this again !! i m sooooo scared to face wednesday

congratulations to u ... i wish i could say this !!! how i wish to have the blues once i PASS nclex !!! facing the beast this wednesday ..... anxiety is sky high !! i m constantly in tears .... i feel like i know nothing !! praying hard !!!

ohhh .... congratulations !!! :)

ya its really hard .... the other qt1-6 i found them a bit obvious .. even qt6... when i read their rationale it made sense and i was literally kicking myself for choosing the wrong one !!! scored 68 on qt6..... my problem like everyone else's is sata !!! i hardly seem to get any right ... i miss either 1 or choose 1 extra !!! .... i dont necessarily use the decision tree either ... i find it confusiong ... somethings when i am absolutely not sure thats when i use it !!! thats soooo great ur's is over ... i cant wait for mine to be over !! n hopefully emerge out an RN !!!

thannx .... did it last night ...qt7 - i thought it was extremely hard !!! i got 65% but i was literally in tears .. coz i had to guess almost all the answers !!!

wow so inspiring !!! :) CONGRATULATIONS i give mine on wednesday ...... giving it everything i got .... out of all that u practised which did u think most resembled nclex???

thanx a lot ..... i got 65 on the last qt ... it was tough !! i hope nclex isnt like that ... i've worked soo hard .. i wish i could see the result of it .... thanx a lot :) i m a a bit reassured :)

wow that was brutal !!! i just took it .... got 34% right !! damnnn !!!!!

ok i'll try that now .... thanx a lot :)

st_claire u know u r soooo therapeutic :) .... i see u encouraging everyone ... thanx a lot .... it takes me all day to review my test .... i'm hanging on .... just a week more ... just a week more .....

ok ...... my exam is a week away i am soooo nervous ... and sooo not nervous at the same time !!! its like my emotions r bipolar !!! please help me to understand where i stand ... i know everyone gets unsure with their preparations at the end .. it feels like i dont know anything ..... i am foreign educated ... and its been almost 4 years since i finished my school .... my knowledge was really a blurr .... so i started with saunders ... read it cover to cover twice ...... on my diagnostic which i took after going thru saunders once i got 61% my qbank scores are 61% as well... this i started taking early on qt1 73 qt2 75 qt3 63 qt4 69 qt5 64 qt6 68 ... going to do qt7 today ..... and i have been doing nclex 3500 for sata.. but my scores r really disappointing there i also did pda, just the 18 chapters, it ranged anywhere from 50's to 70's to 80's my weak points are ecg !! i just dont get it .... i know only the basic that r there in saunders.... i did go through the youtube videos.... but it still is a blurr !!! i have been studying soooo hard for the past 3 months ...... its like i m all burnt out now .... i just want to get this over with ..... towards the end instead of working harder .. i find myself lagging behind .... i am soooo exhausted studying ... i know most people are ..... i dont know what else to do ...... any suggestions would be great ... please keep me in your prayers... i get soo motivated reading success stories here ... keep up the good work guys :)

congratulations and what r these teaching ques we keep hearing about ???? where do we practice that from ??

wow thats super duper cool ... congratulations ... i was rooting for u too :)

good luck ... u can do this :)

yah i saw that as well ... n i did a few research... turns out u HYDRATE first !! (my research source is allnurses :) )

ok 1 more confusion ...... saunders says cane walking - nurse to stand at the affected side while ambulating ...... kaplan says on the stronger side ???? i swear i m going crazy !!

i know i have been facing the same thing .... my exam is next week !! its like even when i do kaplan i am guessing more than half of the things .... give me priority give me delegation i can deal with that ... but there r things that i have literally no idea of !!! what do i do with these ??? thats when i try n calm myself that i have done everthing thing that i can possibly do ... there is only so much a person can do .... for me personally its impossible to know every minute details about each topic ... and i refuse to do that .. coz my brain just shuts off at a certain point ..... toward the end there isnt much we can do .. just reinforce what u know .. atleast thats a safe bet !!

haha...... just that studying for nclex has drilled the fact that SURGERY-EDEMA-ELEVATE !!!! LOL

for my question ??? no i didnt :)