U-world for senior nursing students

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Hey guys!

I'm trying to hear some opinions about Uworld, I'm an incoming senior of winter 2018 and some of my peers in the upper cohort who are about to graduate next Spring and Summer recommend using Uworld as a practice. I did about 30-50 Q's in an alternate day schedule on Saunder's and I excel throughout my Medsurg class! It is a fantastic book!

- Should I purchase a subscription now even though I still have 4 semesters left in school?

- How was the alternate format questions look like? (SATA is a challenge for me!)

- How many questions are there in a subscription, does it vary on the price?

- We use ATI in school, are the questions similar to Uworld?

I know it's going to cost me more on top of the other class' books and resources but if it's helping out a lot of nursing students in general, it would be a great investment in the future.

Thank you all and I would appreciate every opinion :)

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the General Student discussion forum.

Personally I would wait until near or just graduated so you can study better and concentrate clearer on the NCLEX

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I am in my 3rd semester and i got uworld for 30 days, be honest I was not impressed with their questions, I went through all (2010) questions in 30 days . If i decide to get nclex review I would purchase official ati review (NCSBN)

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I would wait until you get the basic foundation on the materials.

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Price base on time your signing up for uworld, amount if questions is always the same, they have total of 2010 or 2020 questions. I got 30 days subscription, and i went through all questions in 30 days. I had to pay $99 expensive. Questions is tricky and kind of hard, they make you think. My score was at 20 when i begin reading and study. I tool good notes of all rationalies, they take their information from official NCSNB (ati pep webpage) 3 weeks prep for $50 (they have about 1500 questions) SATA is so much easier if you read/ make flashcards rationally for EVERY question

another day on facebook somebody shared all their nclex prep book and materials - NCLEX practice (on group picture you would see blue scrubs) , this collection was full of saunders books, and other expensive books, 3 or 4 audio collection of lectures by mark K and other guy, study points from nclex mastery and ncsnrg + nursing labs

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Specializes in Oncology, OCN.

Uworld is fantastic but I wouldn't get a subscription until you are close to finished with school and ready to go into NCLEX prep mode. My school set us all up with 90 day subscriptions and I'm about half way through the qbank right now. Hoping to get my authorization to test soon and sign up for NCLEX in late September. If you go to the NCLEX subform there are lots of posts about Uworld. Highly recommend it, just not this early in your nursing school program.

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Specializes in ICU + 25 years as Nursing Faculty.

U World is "da bomb"! It is EXCELLENT. Get it now and use it religiously! It will help you in school and NCLEX.

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Specializes in Oncology.

Getting it now will help you feel confident about the questions on NCLEX and help you throughout the remaining of your nursing school. UWORLD allows you to create question banks based on specific areas. For example, if your weak area is cardiovascular, you can create your test bank to be only questions related to the cardiovascular system. The number of questions depend on the price of the subscription, for example, $49 will get you 75 questions in each area, not 75 questions overall. The SATA questions are just as difficult as they are in nursing school, the UWORLD ones are more tricky though. ATI and UWORLD questions are not similar in my opinion. ATI questions have everything you need within the question to help you come to a conclusion on choosing the "best" answer. UWORLD does not provide you with everything you need within the question, you have to really use your critical thinking with UWORLD questions (which are how the NCLEX questions are set up). I used both ATI and UWORLD for NCLEX studying and I passed on the first attempt with 75 questions........Good luck!!!

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I say wait. I bought a 2 month subscription 1 month before graduation and extended it for 30 days when my ATT was delayed. It is an excellent resource for the NCLEX, but I still feel the questions, wording, and style were very different from nursing school exams and it was overwhelming to use it on top of my nursing school resources I was required to use. I ended up not using UWorld during my first month of the subscription.

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