Tips for Second Time Around

Nursing Students NCLEX

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Now that the shock of actually passing has worn off a little :balloons: , I thought I'd pass along what I did to pass the second time around.

First, I just thought I should say that everone's advice to practice, practice, practice didn't really work for me. Sorry folks. It didn't. The first time I took the test, I had 265 questions. When I was finished taking the test, I realized that I could have practiced 10,000 more questions and it wouldn't have hurt, but it wouldn't have helped either.

I really needed more REVIEW of MATERIAL! Adult Health I was in our second semester; a full year ago. Of course I'd forgotten a LOT. (I just didn't think I had!) So, I used Kaplan CDs to review the material with and it helped greatly. I will also say that Kaplan's strategies for picking a correct answer even when you're clueless was great advice. Fortunately, I only had to utilize it once on this go-round, but I'm sure it got me through that question.

Anyway, I don't know if this will help anyone or not, but if it helps one person, to me it was worth the time to type it.

Take Care,

Dawn, RN, MSPH

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Now that the shock of actually passing has worn off a little :balloons: , I thought I'd pass along what I did to pass the second time around.

First, I just thought I should say that everone's advice to practice, practice, practice didn't really work for me. Sorry folks. It didn't. The first time I took the test, I had 265 questions. When I was finished taking the test, I realized that I could have practiced 10,000 more questions and it wouldn't have hurt, but it wouldn't have helped either.

I really needed more REVIEW of MATERIAL! Adult Health I was in our second semester; a full year ago. Of course I'd forgotten a LOT. (I just didn't think I had!) So, I used Kaplan CDs to review the material with and it helped greatly. I will also say that Kaplan's strategies for picking a correct answer even when you're clueless was great advice. Fortunately, I only had to utilize it once on this go-round, but I'm sure it got me through that question.

Anyway, I don't know if this will help anyone or not, but if it helps one person, to me it was worth the time to type it.

Take Care,

Dawn, RN, MSPH

So you didn't do any practice questions this time, only the ones from the Kaplan CD? I have heard some people say that practicing questions still does not help them to understand the pathophysiology of a disease process, so they too stick to content. Congratulation on passing!

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I did practice questions (mostly to test my content knowledge), but my BIGGEST focus was on reviewing content.

Good luck!

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