mandafurr

Congrats, RN! I thought it was hard not because of the questions types necessarily, but I had such obscure topics! Things I had never seen/talked about in all of my nursing school career. I do think your correct that the ATI helped a lot though, I found their questions to be the most similar. Congrats again! :)

Thank you, I hope so too! Good luck!

Thank you! That's the majority of what I used and thought it was fine. We had the ATI in our program though and of all the things I used that would be the closest to NCLEX style questions,however the rationales they give are absolute crap. It will just say "That is a priority, but not the most important thing." BUT WHY?!?!! It drove me crazy. That's why I like Saunders, they give great rationales, because I don't want to just get the answer right, I want to know the why behind it. Hope this helps!

Well I hope for some good news for you! Fingers crossed!

It's scored twice from what I understand and there's a small chance that you can still pass if it hasn't been 24 hours yet. That's why I was skeptical of my first time before 24 hours because the test is graded twice.

I think the Saunders questions were a little easy compared to the NCLEX, I liked the content the most. My school required ATI testing and I feel those questions were more comparable. But whatever practice you can get answering them will help!

I took my NCLEX Thursday at 1 pm and checked my BON this morning and my license is active! I had 70% sata and thought it was super hard, but I just kept pushing through waiting for that magic number 75, and then it was done. I was surprised and shocked and did not feel like I passed but hoped for the best! All my family and friends were very positive and supportive, which definitely helped. I used Saunders 6th edition and the Lacharity PDA to study. I did about 300 questions a day for two weeks and refreshed content using Saunders. The day before I did NO studying. Just relaxed and had a Netflix marathon. I did use the PVT about 5 hours after-I just couldn't wait-and got the good pop-up. I was only half relieved and waited until after the 24 hour mark to try again and still had the good pop-up. I was still a little skeptical until I got my license, but it's here now! I read this site for encouragement and ideas before my test and promised myself I would post in hopes of helping someone else too!