4th time taking it, not losing hope...

[MurseM]

Hello all,

I finally signed up for the website to be able to post. I have been lurking and reading advice for quite some time now, for which I would like to thank you all.

My story is not much different from others. I graduated in '12. With couple of disclosures, I was given my ATT at least 6 months after I graduated. I managed to take the NCLEX 3 times since then. 265,75,118 questions respectively answered on those 3 tests.

Look, I am confident in my knowledge (not to sound cocky) but I studied about everything. Hurst, Kaplan, NCSBN, Nclex 3500/4000. I am currently studying Saunders (book and the questions on the computer). I do believe that my failure is due to me not knowing HOW to answer the questions. When I do questions at home everything is so simple. I can most of the time state the answer in my mind when I read the question. But in Nclex land, I tend to not do so good.

Is there any tool to study HOW to answer questions vs. questions that teach content. Do you have any advice for someone in my position taking Nclex 4th time. I am one of the many affected with the outage of the ATT system sending codes to Pearson. As soon as this gets resolved I am going to take it.

Thank you in advance...

[generalRN2008]

Maybe it is test anxiety

[MAStudent8578]

Did you actually take the kaplan course. I have and it teaches you how to answer the questions. Like you I did not think I have problems with content its just answering the questions. I did the classroom anywhere with Kaplan. They go over how to answer the questions and it comes with the question trainers and question bank which help as well. I have taken the neclex twice and this is going to be my third time so hang in there. Hope this helps you.

[MurseM]

Thanks for the replies.

Test anxiety is certainly there!. It was worse the first time, but now I've got used to it in a sence that I know what to expect. The principle of failing it AGAIN gives the anxiety, not the test itself.

MAstudent8578: I did do the actual in class review AND online class review AND their questions. HONESTLY, and this might sound absurd to everyone, I find that I rarely used KAPLAN strategies on NCLEX. I just don't think their answering tree is effective. I probably used it on one or two questions that I had no idea about the answer.

You see, I find Kaplan questions simple enough. I feel like they designed their questions to fit the answer tree, not the other way around. So I do not see how it workes or applies.