Fski16

Hi there, I just passed the NCLEX, shut of at 75 questions. Huge sigh of relief! I wanted to give some feedback, as many do. So here it is. I am a recent emigrant to the US. I worked as a registered nurse in Europe for eight years. After waiting for almost 14 months for credential verification I was finally given ATT. I studied for nine weeks prior to taking the test. I used the Nursing Boards own review course. ($100) and downloaded a bunch of free question banks to my I pad. I also paid for a download of NCLEX Mastery ($29 about 1300 questions). I bought a review book KAPLAN so that I could do a little more reading on subjects that I felt were glossed over in the review course. I read through a book on Pharmacology because there seemed to be so very many questions that required a certain amount of familiarity with those meds. I think I answered about 5000 practice questions. I studied from 9am - 9pm, breaking for food, head clearing walks, phone calls to complain to my mom, husband, kids ...........anyone who could stand to listen to my whining really. I slept an extra hour or two I studied like this every day for nine weeks with a day off at Christmas and a visit to my girlfriends birthday party. Basically I ate and slept NCLEX. My advice is this. If you can only do one thing. Answer 5000 questions before you take your test. I think that is why I passed. I was not the least bit intimidated by the questions when I sat in front of that computer because I had seen them all (in one disguise or other} before. Do not give up. Answer a shedload of questions before you try again. It will work. Trust yourself