Published Oct 19, 2013
CPTjOYjOY
39 Posts
To God Be the Glory :-) 75 questions and shut down. My heart stopped. Did the PVT and got the good pop up. Thank you all for your encouragement.
2013rn2BScorpio
322 Posts
Congratulations. Any tips?
SE_BSN_RN, BSN
805 Posts
I got the good pop up today, too!! Congrats, RN!!
Brush up on content, and get the Kaplan review book. I didn't take the 3 day course, because you can take some free classes online with Kaplan, and you tube has excellent review videos.
Thanks are you referring to the Kaplan book hat comes with the Kaplan course
I'm not sure which book the course uses, but I got the 2013-2014 NCLEX book on ebay.
JLCab
23 Posts
I used the new purple Kaplan Content Review Guide and their online courses. I also took an NCLEX prep course at the end of May that was included as part of my school's nursing program. I THINK it worked for me. I took my NCLEX on Oct. 3rd, 75 questions, good pop up on PVT and 16 days later I still have no confirmation that I passed.
Do you live in a state where you can get quick results?
I wish!
I used Hurst review and Kaplan Q-trainers. My main advice is to not only prep yourself with questions, but mentally. Use positive self talk even when doing practice questions. Whenever I saw a hard practice question, I talked myself through it with some sayings I learned from HURST REVIEW and did my best. I saw my scores increasing and that is when I truly understood that NCLEX is equally mental and knowledge. Be kind to yourself, it is not a race, When you are doing practice questions note at about how many questions you daze off, and take a 5 min brake and keep that same method for NCLEX. I usually burn out at 50 questions, so I took a brake at question 50 on NCLEX, and 30 mins later, I was done.