select all that apply.

[nclexII]

they said last question was the most important question to tell or to rate i u will pass...but,is there anybody here who ended up ith SELECT ALL THAT APPLY as the last question who passed?...

is it true that SELECT ALL THAT APPLY is in the highest or difficult stage of nclex exam?

please hold me back everyone...im just confuse and scared at this moment.thank you.

[Mossback]

I took the NCLEX-RN yesterday. I had a total of 75 questions, which included 28 SATA, 9 meds, 1 ordering, and 1 exhibit (EKG strips). A classmate who took the test at the same time reported that "nearly half" of her 75 questions were SATA.

Despite the heavy dose of SATAs, both of us got the "good popup."

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

hi ashley..u had meds on sata?

Not that I can remember. But I wasn't really paying attention to the types of questions during the test. I certainly didn't count how many I got of each type of question. I was too busy just trying to answer the questions. It was only afterward that I thought that I got a lot of satas.

[CaliforniaRNnow]

I never heard about the last question determining whether or not you passed. At 75 questions, I didn't know how I felt. And then I got up to 80 questions and felt like I redeemed myself or something. And I passed.

The only alternative style question I got was SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. And there were SOOO MANY of those questions. I was getting mad.

And actually, I know I got the first question right on the NCLEX because the next question answered it for me. LOL.

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

I'm taking it in a couple of weeks. I'm curious to know when ppl say it was not that hard even when you had "alot" of SATAs. are the choices simple for example, signs/symptoms?? I hate select all that apply, b/c i am always less/over one choice

I took the Kaplan review and one thing they told us for the SATA was to take it as a regular multiple choice question. Read through each answer individually, and select it if it applies. i know this sounds silly, but it really did work. I was always terrible at them on exams throughout nursing school, but once i started reading through them more carefully, i was able to find what was wrong with the answers (and not pick them!)

[nowIamRN]

I took the Kaplan review and one thing they told us for the SATA was to take it as a regular multiple choice question. Read through each answer individually, and select it if it applies. i know this sounds silly, but it really did work. I was always terrible at them on exams throughout nursing school, but once i started reading through them more carefully, i was able to find what was wrong with the answers (and not pick them!)

Here is the thing though. I just can't remember five or six different things about one disease or process. I have tried the true or false method and covering the other options and I still either answer one too many or fall short! arrrgggg...it is so frustrating.

Whoever thought up this SATA should get a smack up their head:devil:

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

The last question does not determine if you pass/fail. My last question wasn't a SATA, but I definitely got it wrong. I still passed! When I took the NCLEX, I had 75 questions and 15 SATA.