I failed the first time with 265 questions, this was in July. I just took my NCLEX again 2 days ago, and found out today that I passed. The second time the pc shut off at 75 questions... The first time I registered for Kaplan and used the Kaplan book. I practiced a lot of questions and was usually in the 50's. The second time, I used Saunders, LaCharity, NCSBN Nclex review and Kaplan strategy book 2013-2014. I had 6 weeks to study and I came up with a study plan. I made sure I finished the Saunders book in 6 weeks, I finished Lacharity in like a week,for NCSBN review I registered 3 weeks before my exam date. I highly recommend Saunders if you're weak in content. The book is well organized with different sections like OB, fundamentals, peds, mental, adult etc. They also have meds for each section! I also realized that I study better when there are pictures and colors which the Kaplan book didn't have. For NCSBN review, I focus mainly on the practice questions and it really helped and I think it's harder than the real NCLEX exam. If you're strong in content, then you should get Kaplan because Kaplan mainly focuses on testing strategies (which didn't help me the first time). I realized I was weak in content so I used Saunders.