saunders review and NCLEX passing correlation?

suzanne4, RN · Dec 26, 2005

Provided that you are not doing 300 questions per day and not retaining the info, you should do fine.

My biggest testing way is how many are you actually getting right without having to resort to the book or your notes? That is a better determinator. And not sure if you are doing the rationales with each and every answer.

MIA-RN1, RN · Dec 27, 2005

I am doing 100 questions a day without referring to book or notes at all during the test, and then I go over the rationales on the ones I miss as well as the ones I got right but wasn't sure about. So getting 76-78% per test is pretty good? I wasn't sure what the correlation is between # correct on saunders and passing NCLEX.

suzanne4, RN · Dec 27, 2005

Sounds like you will do okay then. There is not an exact correlation as priority type questions are not in the current copy of Saunder's that is available. But if you are getting a score like that without the use of the book, then it sounds like you know what to do with the information in front of you.

Good luck to you, when are you testing?

Boston-RN, RN · Dec 27, 2005

There is not an exact correlation as priority type questions are not in the current copy of Saunder's that is available.
Good luck to you, when are you testing?

Sorry a little off topic but which study materials DO have the most updated types of priority / alternate questions?

MIA-RN1, RN · Dec 27, 2005

Sounds like you will do okay then. There is not an exact correlation as priority type questions are not in the current copy of Saunder's that is available. But if you are getting a score like that without the use of the book, then it sounds like you know what to do with the information in front of you.
Good luck to you, when are you testing?

I am planning on taking the NCLEX-PN in late January and then finishing up my last semester in ADN program and taking the NCLEX-RN probably in July. Most of the questions I am missing in the review have to do with stuff I haven't really learned about--ekg, cardiac stuff, renal--so I am going to read up on that stuff in one of my review books.