I am a foreign educated nurse and I will be taking the NCLEX-RN Monday February 2nd.
I've been studying since last year, studied and practiced questions from LaCharity, Saunders, Lippincott's, Kaplan, ATI. Now the time is almost here and I am starting to feel nervous!
I just completed the Kaplan Q Trainers (the ones you find online) and my scores were:
QT1 64%
QT2 69%
QT3 70%
QT4 65%
QT5 67%
QT6 71%
QT7 65%
For what I understand and I've been reading here at the forum is that anything above 60% is good? This confuses me a little because somebody told me (with Saunders and ATI) anything above 80% is good.
I found Kaplan's questions to be more difficult compared to Saunders (that are more content focused).
I don't know about you guys but I didn't like Lippincott's Questions so much so I didn't finish all the questions on that book.
From ATI I used the application that has about 800 questions and also did a couple of their comprehensive practice assessment exams (150 questions each). I like them but that was before Kaplan :)
So my question is what should I do in these last 2 weeks?
I was thinking on getting the NCSBN review (the 3 week package) and practice their questions. I just don't want to stop practicing because I feel that I will forget everything lol. People say NCSBN questions are complicated and even ''harder'' than the actual NCLEX but I don't know.
I have an obsession with the scores because like I said they seem to vary according the author. From Saunders I started around the 60s and end up with an 80-81% in the last ones I took. Same with ATI, started around the 60s sometimes I would get 86% (I remember that score being the highest). With Lippincott's never made it higher than 70s.
Anyway!! Sorry for so many numbers I don't want to overwhelm you guys. I'm also aware that scores in the end are just numbers, the important thing is how you study. So I would appreciate any suggestion.
Thank you!
T
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Hello everybody,
I am a foreign educated nurse and I will be taking the NCLEX-RN Monday February 2nd.
I've been studying since last year, studied and practiced questions from LaCharity, Saunders, Lippincott's, Kaplan, ATI. Now the time is almost here and I am starting to feel nervous!
I just completed the Kaplan Q Trainers (the ones you find online) and my scores were:
QT1 64%
QT2 69%
QT3 70%
QT4 65%
QT5 67%
QT6 71%
QT7 65%
For what I understand and I've been reading here at the forum is that anything above 60% is good? This confuses me a little because somebody told me (with Saunders and ATI) anything above 80% is good.
I found Kaplan's questions to be more difficult compared to Saunders (that are more content focused).
I don't know about you guys but I didn't like Lippincott's Questions so much so I didn't finish all the questions on that book.
From ATI I used the application that has about 800 questions and also did a couple of their comprehensive practice assessment exams (150 questions each). I like them but that was before Kaplan :)
So my question is what should I do in these last 2 weeks?
I was thinking on getting the NCSBN review (the 3 week package) and practice their questions. I just don't want to stop practicing because I feel that I will forget everything lol. People say NCSBN questions are complicated and even ''harder'' than the actual NCLEX but I don't know.
I have an obsession with the scores because like I said they seem to vary according the author. From Saunders I started around the 60s and end up with an 80-81% in the last ones I took. Same with ATI, started around the 60s sometimes I would get 86% (I remember that score being the highest). With Lippincott's never made it higher than 70s.
Anyway!! Sorry for so many numbers I don't want to overwhelm you guys. I'm also aware that scores in the end are just numbers, the important thing is how you study. So I would appreciate any suggestion.
Thank you!
T