4th x NCLEX RN

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Monday I took the 4th RN NCLEX and failed. I just don't know what I am doing wrong. I graduated the summer of 2014 with A and B grades in school. I did strictly ATI for the 1st test, Predictor of 99% pass rate- Failed, All categories were below passing. When I left PearsonVue I knew I failed. I did NCSBN for 2nd test- fail, near passing, 3rd studied Hurst Live Review and Kaplan Book with questions- Failed, two categories above passing and the rest near passing. And for the 4th- I stuck with just hurst. Paid the $7 and unofficial results is a Fail, I felt so confident the day of the test. I had 265 questions and 40 select all that apply. Can I get some pointers and strategies to help me pass NCLEX. I will not give up, I want this.

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, ER.

might be that you are using SO many different books and guides that you are losing any sense of strategy. I stuck with kaplan. I failed my first attempt, looked at what categories were"at or near passing"and below passing, and focused on those strictly.

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, ER.

If you use the search bar, you'll find plenty of threads by people in the same boat as you, I also posted a bunch of tips on another thread

https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/failed-nclex-2x-881672.html

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Thank you, I am going to try to stick with one but don't know which one to focus on or start a different review. I signed up for the free live review with Hurst this morning for December but now I am not sure.

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Wow, alot of great tips. Thanks.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the NCLEX forum

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Is the Pearsonvue unofficial results accurate?

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

:banghead:

Is the Pearsonvue unofficial results accurate?
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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Is the Pearsonvue unofficial results accurate?

Absolutely yes.

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Is the Pearsonvue unofficial results accurate?

When you pay $7.95 to Pearson Vue for Quick Results, of course it's accurate. It's what you PAID for.

The "trick" that far too many people are enamored of is a game, and is NOT accurate.

QR are unofficial but NOT inaccurate.

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Specializes in Clinical Nurse Leader.

Hi!! I wanted to say that during nursing school we used the Hesi for our study test at the end of each unit. I failed all of them. Horrible test taker. So I went into my studying for NCLEX with a "I will not fail" attitude and did 6000 questions. No kidding. I sat down and divided it by the amount of time I had and each day did a certain amount of questions. It was around 300-600 a day. On the last day I bought the Select all that apply book and did every question in one sitting broken up by breaks. I also found the Delegation, Prioritization book very helpful. I did all of the new Hesi book questions. I was one that did use multiple books but I found UWORLD to be the best. The questions are verbatim to NCLEX and I was lucky enough to find a free trial for a month. My friends also used UWORLD but only could get the 1 week free trial. I also bought only the question bank for Kaplan and did that. Kaplan q-bank also was really hard and I never had a score over 54%, but I did pass the NCLEX. I also bought the online question bank form the NCLEX NCSBN site. I did all those too. For me it was reading the test taking strategies and doing thousands of questions. I had the NCLEX Mastery app on my phone which I 100% recommend because you can do questions anywhere. Sitting at stop light or in line at grocery store, you can whip out your phone and squeeze in the questions. I found the more questions I did the more repetitiveness of medications I saw but I would get the question worded differently. By the time I sat for NCLEX I could name almost every side effect for the drugs on the test because I had seen them so many times. I wish you the best of luck and remember this test is no way a reflection of how great of a nurse you are soon to be! I should add I did pass first try with 75 questions so some may say 6000 is a lot and crazy, it worked for me.

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Specializes in Clinical Nurse Leader.

UWORLD is an online resource :)

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