question for the experienced or graduates regarding a textbook

[savagetrojan]

In the textbook "Fundamentals of Nursing, The Art and Science of Nursing Care" at the end of each chapter are some questions with the heading "Practicing for the NCLEX" Usually 10-15 questions. In anyone's experience if you do well on these questions will you generally do well on the Excelsior test? I started reading the suggested readings and found it to be much review so I started going right to the end of the chapters and taking the tests. I have been scoring between 80% and 100%. My weakest part is careplanning and understanding parts of the nursing process. I scored 70% on chapter 14(diagnosis) so I will go back and reread that part and test again. Other than that the scores have been good. Thanks for the help.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

I would recommend the EC practice exams as a more accurate gauge of test readiness -- those things are worth every penny! But I do know that a lot of people have found NCLEX resources to be helpful with EC exams. I didn't use an NCLEX book during my studies, but it seems logical ... especially since the NCLEX felt like one big EC exam. Haha.

Also, toward the end of the exam content guide, check out the sample questions there ... those always seemed somewhat similar to the exam itself.