Signed up for my first test. It's tomorrow!

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Just signed up for my first test, Health Safety. I got a 73% on Practice form A, and a 74% on the sample questions from the free content guide.

I am going to study some more Health, Wellness, and Illness and some Psychological safety (my two weak areas) and then take Practice form B and head off to the test!

I've spent about 10 hours studying so far. It will hopefully be closer to 15 by the time I actually take the test.

I have been an LPN for nearly 5 years, so a lot of this is review for me, not to mention that I've already taken some RN nursing classes and clinicals at a local university.

I am very nervous. I really want Excelsior to be a good fit for me.

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Specializes in med-surg,sa,breast & cervical ca.

Good Luck Veggie! When is your test date? I'm studying for this one now-been an LPN for 20+ years so

it's a challenge figuring out the best study habits for me. I was gonig to do the pre-test but Ex charges $75 for the practice test

and I just paid the test fee so I'm going to use the questions at the end of the study guides and the book & hope that's enough.

Post and let me know how the test went. What day are you going?

I too need the Excelsior to work for me-to do it in traditional setting would take so much more time and money-plus the work factor. I still need too :0)

Ms.P

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Specializes in peds-trach/vent.

Good luck to you. You'll do great. Also, congratulations on getting started with Excelsior.:)

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I passed!!! I began studying as soon as I signed up and took the test exactly one week later. I got a B. I studied for a total of 13 hours (including the time it took to take the practice exams).

I used the following materials to study: Mystudygroup101 notes, Fundamentals of Nursing textbook (old, 6th edition), Mosby's review cards for the NCLEX-RN examination (basically just nclex questions on notecards), Excelsior content guide, Excelsior Practice Exams.

Honestly I think the NCLEX questions, the Excelsior content guide sample questions, and the Excelsior practice exams helped me the most. I would take notes on the rationals for everything I got wrong, or wasn't sure about and then review those. My Saunders book is held up in the postal system; I have heard that it is great material as well.

On the Excelsior exam content practice guide (before any studying/reading at all) I got a 74%

On the Mystudyguide 101 1st practice test (multiple choice section only) I scored a 72%

On the Excelsior Practice test Form A I got a 72%

On the Excelsior Practice test Form B I got a 68%

I received a B on the real Exam.

I am an LPN, this course contains nursing concepts that originally took me a long time to grasp. If you are an EMT or anything besides a nurse, I would strongly suggest studying for twice the amount I did...unless of course you are suuuuppper suuuper smart or having amazing retention or understand nursing culture well already.

Just my two cents :)

I'm posting this because all the posts other nurses have made on here really helped me decide how and what to study, and I'd like to continue on that tradtion!

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Thanks for the breakdown of what you did and how you did on things. I just starated studying for this test, and it is nice to see things like this to point me in the right direction.

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Sounds like better practice scores than I, and I passed. Good luck.

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