What I thought about the NCLEX

[cindyloulou]

Here's my story. I have always been a mostly "A" student in school with a few scattering of B's. I never really got that nervous before test or finals. But....the NCLEX was different. About 3-4 days before the Big Day, I started to get the runs and could not for the life of me get a decent night sleep. I could feel my heart beating faster. I was getting nervous and my body was reacting. I studied Kaplan (my school paid for it), learningtext and the prioritization and delegation book. I studied for a month solid 3-4 hours per day. I mainly did questions and looked at rationales for both the correct and incorrect. After taking the NCLEX on 7/7 I felt that the test was most similiar to the learningtest (http://www.ncsbn.com). The format and question style were very close. The NCLEX questions are not wordy (maybe 2-3 sentences max) and neither is the learningtext question format. After doing all of the Kaplan questions, I am still not sure if it was a real benefit. Let's just say that if my school did not fork over the $500.00 for the program I would have hit myself for not just sticking to learningtext. I feel that the http://www.ncsbn.com provides a great resource for a great price. If money is a factor for you, I would suggest to go with them. I got mostly priortization, infection control and pharm questions. As far as pharm questions are concerned. I don't know if I would have recognized half the pharm questions by studying anymore. I literally got a few SATA pharm questions in which I did not recognize the medication; not even a flint "oh yeah I've heard of the med but I still don't know what it is for". It is too overwhelming to know every med out there; learn the basic categories and the teaching that is important for those. I also thought that the prioritization and delegation book was helpful. It got you thinking about those questions pertaining to "who would I see first" and "who would I delegate this to". Now the good news. After reaching 73 on the NCLEX, I did a quick prayer that it would shut off at 75 and two questions later the screen turned blue. I did walk out there thinking "I have no clue how I did". I could only say that I studied by butt off and knew I did everything I could do to prepare for the test. I did the "pearsonvue" trick and got the pop up. This morning I found out that I am officially an R.N.!

[caliotter3]

:ancong!:

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Congratulations and thanks for posting what worked for you

[dodo102]

Thanks you for the time you took to guide us . God Bless you for that and in you new carrier!!! I'm taking my exam in July 20 and i'm using learningextension and the prioritization book . i am so confident and God will be with us to pass the nclex. Thanks again and pray for us!!!!!!!!

[CoffeeGeekRN]

Congratulations! :yeah:

[laura11]

congratulations, i am taking mine on 7/16 and i am also using the learning extension and saunders