Tips from someone that passed with 75!

Just wanted to share with everyone what I believe helped me pass the NCLEXRN! (and survive 15 SATA questions!)

I studied for 2.5 months full time.

SAUNDERS FOR CONTENT:

First, I read ALL of saunders comprehensive review and did between 75-150 questions on the saunders cd every day. I would read during the day and do questions at night. BEST if you do the saunders questions in the STUDY MODE NOT EXAM MODE so you get ALL questions- I did the entire cd. REVIEW EVERY RATIONALE AND MAKE NOTES OF INFO THAT YOU DIDNT KNOW.

KAPLAN FOR STRATEGY:

At the same time, I purchased the kaplan qbank. I believe that the qbank is more important to complete than the qtrainers. Our Kaplan instructor stated that the qbank is updated often to reflect nclex content- which I proved when I received 3 almost identical qbank questions on my nclex.

I did about 25-40 kaplan qbank questions every morning- just to teach me how to answer nclex style questions.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

I purchased the delegation and assignment book by mosby and did about 200 questions in there, focusing on delegation which helped tons on nclex!!! I did this the last 2 weeks of studying.

I really hope this helps some nclex takers and wish you all tons of luck on your exams!

Thank you for your tip, I am doing similar prep as you did. The only thing different is I have Qtrainer rather than the Qbank. I am wondering if you can purchase the Qbank separately. For delegation and assignment book, did you finish the whole book? If you didn't, what are the chapters you would recommend?

I am taking the test on Nov 19 which is two weeks later. I still have medication session from Saunder's CD left to do. And I will be starting to do the Qtrainer tomorrow.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

Im not sure about the qbank- you can call kaplan.

The delegation and assignment book- I did random chapters, not any of the case studies. I highlighted delegation/prioritization questions and redid those (total 40) a few days before the test. I got tons of them wrong, but just think it helped answer delegation/prioritization on nclex.

Good Luck on your studies!

15?? wow! how many q u got in nclex?

IT says 75.... on his thread title. maybe 75... and 15 SATA, ill be dead after that.....

me too..dead and shaky..lolz! i have this personal assessment why they throw in sata q..i thought that mybe because since its obviously hard to perfect the right answers for this type of q..i feel that sata q are just something that would make you go into the next q from the other til u reach 75 for a tester whose rate in the mid number 50s-60s is already super above the passing standard ...then there theyl throw in sata q...

r u guys getting my point??hahhahahah!

I got the SATAs all over the exam, beginning with question 8, and last was in the 60's. Also got a medcal for q72! I thought the exam had gone crazy on me!