When did you start studying for NCLEX?

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Hi everyone.

I'm a first semester nursing student after having most of my pre reqs completed at a community college. I will be graduating in 2 years and I would just like to know, at what point during nursing school did you start studying for the NCLEX?

Also, were there any NCLEX review books that actually helped you study/pass nursing exams?

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Hi everyone.

I'm a first semester nursing student after having most of my pre reqs completed at a community college. I will be graduating in 2 years and I would just like to know, at what point during nursing school did you start studying for the NCLEX?

Also, were there any NCLEX review books that actually helped you study/pass nursing exams?

Never or from the very beginning, depending on how you look at it. Nursing school, in it's entirety, is studying for NCLEX. I did buy a Saunders book after graduation, but I procrastinate and never actually managed to open it. And I'm sort of glad that I didn't obsess and waste my time. Most of the NCLEX questions I got were so obscure that they're not what I would have focused on, anyway.

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I started studying for NCLEX after graduation. I took six weeks to study and passed on my first attempt after having answered the minimum number of questions.

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