Ok it's Friday and taking the RN boards on Monday. Starting to feel weird all over. not sure what to do this weekend. Need to do a little venting so decided to tell my adventures getting to this point after graduating. First, I graduated in December 2003. I had a ticket for driving without a lic. From 10 years past on my record. In California this is a misdemeanor so i have a criminal record. This means, I had to go through the diversions program like someone with an assault or drunk driving or other like offense. Same ticket today would only be a infraction not a misdemeanor. Anyway after going through all paper work and waiting a year went by. I studied about a month and took the exam back in april. Failed it with 265 questions. So I took a couple months off. Then I made flashcards from my review book on everything. I mean everything, I reworded everything, did I mention everything, in a question that best helped me "get it". Spent about a month and a half doing this. Making anywhere from 50-200 flash caards with 2-4 question on each a day. I don't know how many of these flash cards I have but it's into the thousands. Had them in stacks in peds, ob, psyc ect.. and went through them one by one not trying to focus hard on anyone just beginning to take out the ones I readily knew. It took about 2-3 week to go through them once. After that I went through them again still not really focusing hard but removing the easy ones I missed from before. This time I took one from each stack and made them in mixed piles. Separated them in smaller piles and reviewed one stack till I felt ok (not good) just ok about it. Kept doing this focusing more and more tell I got to a few hundred cards. Divided these into 3 stacks. One for meds, one for describing, assessment, s/s and DX results type questions, and one for treatments, interventions type questions. Going over these again and again. About 2-3 weeks ago I decided to start with questions. I have two disks I use with about 2500 questions. Was getting 80% average on one and 73% average on the other one. Signed up for the Moby's CAT test and took the first one like it was the real test. I got butterflies and everything. Stopped at 75 questions, got a 94% with a 0.124 level. So I rescheduled my exam. Every test I have took on the CAT stopped at 75 questions and level of diff. has gone up a lot on each test. Friends came from 4 different countries came to visit for 3 days. Ended up getting going out and got drunk Saturday before the test (test was on that Wednesday 9/28/05). Big mistake, I changed the test date to this Monday 10/03 at 1:00pm. I now have got the last two CAT tests results at .664 and .666 level and 99%. Still getting 75%- 80% on my other disks. Did find my weakness, you guessed it I am a guy and OB/peds is my weak points. Focusing on those the past 2 days think that is the reason for my increase in test scores. I did find that I did not start to get repeat questions until like test number 4-5. I think because I keep going up a lot on difficulty level with each test. Noticed that repeat questions started to appear when I got stuck on a certain level. I study during the day on weak points and tested at night the past few days. Didn't review tell the next day. Then I reviewed first thing before studying (flash cards I made). Now it's Friday. I have 2 day to go. Feel like I was ready yesterday, but then again not sure i am ready now. Don't know what to do, just take test questions or keep doing the same (going over myself made cards and testing). Don't want to over do it. But don't want to lose any focus. I have nothing going on this week end. No work no play nothing just getting ready. So what should I do keep studying all day or scale it back and end up doing nothing, or just a little on Sunday (have football to distract me) the day before?????? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
