Ready to slay the NCLEX beast in 28 hours.

[Bala Shark]

Hi, I been lurking in this NCLEX board for three months..I graduated in May 2006 and tommorow, I am going to take the NCLEX for the first time...I got a lot of advice on what to do on this board..Like get the Saunders NCLEX and Kaplan NCLEX books..Well I did..I also considered that Saunders had a lot of information..I got advice that I maybe should just do the many questions and understand the rationales from the CD..People also said to do the many Kaplan questions because that most reseambled the NCLEX..Well I did and suprisingly my scores shot up toward the end since I got the hang of Kaplan's strategy..I also got information from this board about that I should learn about infection control (respiratory precautions, droplets precautions, etc from helpful links from posters), also priority questions (Kaplan text: Which patient to see first), and other stuff..A lot of people said that they had a lot of priority questions in their NCLEX so I focused myself on that..Well I hope it will make me pass..To be honest with you, I think I cannot study anymore after 3 long months..I believe that I did prepare myself and hopefully I will report back saying it went well...

[DreamChaser80]

i am a newly lpn grad (aug.) i just got a job at a hospital. i have to work as a nurse tech untill i pass the boards. i have been doing the sauders q&a cd and the delmars cd. i have only been getting 60%. i am so frustraited, i want to take the nclex asap but i am so nervouse i dont know what i know. i am not sure where or what i should be focusing on. please if there is any advice i desparitly need it.

[777RNThatsMe]

Good Luck to you! It sounds like you are ready....now try to relax & let it soak in. Reading your post was like reading about myself....Saunders for content & rationales...Kaplan Trainer CD to test my ability to understand & answer q's. I passed w/75! Let us know when you pass

I didn't study a darn thing...graduated...when I finally got into the testing center (they were packed) 2 mo's after graduation... I went...no studying. Passed in 75 q's (though classmates some of them had 260 or so ..who knows...)... passed. Point is...trust your schooling if it was good.... if it wasn't doing the kaplan should have made up for it...

YOu'll do fine! Remember - nobody feels like they did fine. Most are perplexed during the test... sometimes you may say outloud "What the heck?!" but just keep pluggin' away...and eventually you get the screen that goes from gray to blue and viola' you are finito!

Then you stress for a little while (everybody does..) and then you probably passed..most people do.... remember that...there are some that don't (many folks have test anxiety I think that blocks their passing...unfortunately)....

Get ready to be licensed!

[777RNThatsMe]

Dream - check the other boards on the kaplan..but I'm pretty sure that 60's at kaplan is considered good.