Recent CA ADN Grad - Passed

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I would like to share my story. I am a recent grad of an orange county ADN nursing program. My last day was Oct 13, we were in a pilot program with the BRN where we apply for examination on week 5-6 of our last term (out of 12 weeks). After we passed our comprehensive final exam, our transcripts was immediately sent out to BRN by the school. It took less than a week for the school to do it. I received my ATT on Oct 24 and I immediately locked down to complete our Virtual ATI and got my greenlight on Nov 7.

The same day I got my greenlight, I scheduled my exam for 11/16/16, and bought a month membership on uworld after finding out about it. I did 150 questions each day for the first 2 days then I had a mandatory seminar I had to attend for 2 days which cut to my studying time, the weekend came and I saw there was an opening for an 8:00am exam on 11/15/16 in Anaheim which was closer to me. I prayed over it and decided to move the exam 1 day earlier.

I did close to 1200 questions in a span of 4 days before the exam. I was mentally preparing for the long haul along with testing with sound/distraction around me. I really don't recommend this to everyone however it worked for me. The questions on uworld were helpful and wonderful. I stopped testing at 8:00pm the night before the big day.

I arrived at the test site 1 hour prior and when people started walking in the building 30 minutes before with snacks, I was like "ohh man! I didn't bring any snacks other than water" but I'm used to intermittent fasting so I was just going to power through it. Started the test around 8:00am and computer shut off at question 85. I was sure of my answer on question 85 because I had discussed this with one of my instructor because she had this side effect when she took it. I was very very confident I kicked A$$.

I did the PVT 2 hours after and I got the good pop-up. 3 days later, this morning, my father in law saw my name on the BRN at 3:59am haha

Do uworld. I cannot stress enough how good this program is. Learn the rationales to heart. Their rationales makes so much sense and very easy to understand.

Good luck to those who are waiting to take their test. I was the first in my cohort to get the license which is just a little over a month after we graduated.

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Specializes in Intensive Care Unit (Trauma & Cardiac).

What was your Uworld overall average before you take your nclex rn exam?

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I was scoring 5-8% over the average score on my first try and on the 4th day, i started testing the ones I've missed and was retaining 80-83% of the rationales.

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Hi! I know you posted this kind of a while back but I just wanted to ask how long it took you to finish virtual ati? How fast were you able to get your green light after starting it? Thank you!

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Hi,

For myself, the ATI instructor gave me the greenlight after 2 weeks because I was doing work everyday.

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Oh, okay! That's awesome! Thank you for replying! Is there a certain score that's needed to be achieved on the comprehensive exam at the end?

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While it's score based, the instructor will push you to improve your weakness even if you're hitting 90+%

So it really depends

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