Taking NCLEX in 9 days

[PCU RN]

I scheduled my NCLEX for 9 days from today. I graduated from ADN school May 10th. I am having second thoughts and basically panic attacks after reading a few posts on here! Is it really that bad??!!! I graduated #1 in my class of 46 people, and on my ATI exit exam i scored an 83% which translates to a supposed 99% chance of passing nclex on the first try. (not sure how accurate that is though)

Since graduation I have been spending on average about 3 hours a day studying content and doing practice questions.. I did the hurst review back in December, and I am now using exam cram, lacaritys PDA book, and ncsbn for practice questions.

ncsbn i am getting anywhere from 60% to 75%

lacharity is very difficult for me, but i would say i am getting more than 1/2 of the questions right per chapter

hursts Q review i scored 69 and 72% on the 2 i have taken so far

can someone give me some insight?? does it sound like i should re schedule? i was feeling pretty confident until i read what people are saying

[FineAgain]

But you got the good pop-up!!! So rest easy...

[minton]

Anyone finding that prep courses are not at all consistent? Really concerned - after buying 3 different courses, I find that ...Any sthey rarely agree on anything and are each filled with contradictions, poor spelling and grammar. Any suggestions?

[NAM123]

so what is better and most helpful? Kaplan or NCSBN for questions and similarity when it comes to NCLEX type of questions?

[PCU RN]

which prep courses are you referring to? hurst review was very cohesive, grammatically correct, and did not contradict itself

[FineAgain]

I really found Saunders to be the most helpful. The CD has literally thousands of questions and you can practice alternate format items like SATA's. I am familiar with Hurst (long story but I took only one day) and found it to be interesting, but not particularly helpful for the NCLEX. I also used my ATI practice exams that I had access to from school.

[NAM123]

Arrisub,

Did u try Kaplan? the reason I ask is because I feel like Kaplan's questions are harder and Saunders is written in simple terms. I guess I want to know is the difficulty level like Kaplan or Saunders

Thanks for ur input :)

[FineAgain]

I didn't try Kaplan...I did do the NCSBN website's program. I found the questions to be much harder than Saunders, but when I actually took the exam, I felt that the questions were very much like the Saunders. LOTS of SATA and prioritization. Just my opinion...

[BSNtraumaqueenRN]

It sounds like you are prepared! I took NCLEX yesterday and I did hurst review. My advice would be to learn the content from hurst and you will do great!

[NAM123]

BSNtraumaqueenRN

Thank you! Okay I will do Hurst, and do kaplan questions. Ugh I hope this works out for me! pray for me :)

[lil_jenRN]

I did the Kaplan review online and I also had a book by Kaplan which was dated 2010 that a friend had let me borrow to review for my boards. At the time I was thinking it was really helpful learned different strategies oh how to answer questions and learn the content. It gave great rationales to the answers in the book. I took my boards yesterday had all 265 questions and did not get the good pop up. I have decided to try the Hurst program since a few of my friends didn't pass on their first try and the Hurst program helped them succeed the second try with only 75 questions. I wouldn't recommend Kaplan to anyone. I did so well and now that I look back Kaplan's questions were so much easier than the questions I had on the boards. I'm not giving up, even though I'm still in shock over not passing my first time and feel discouraged right now, I will pass the second time around. Hoping the Hurst program helps. Anyone else have anything methods that helped them? Kaplan i was disappointed with.

[God'sChild30]

@lil_jenRN it depends how you used it. Not saying you didn't study with Kaplan but completing all q trainers and at least 90% of qbank gives I percentage of passing. Looking up every single topic that you don't know within a question is helping me with no only content but how to answer those particular questions. Don't be discourage just stay strong and positive :)

[Melly0104]

What were your Kaplan scores? If u don't mind me asking?