Which prep course do you recommend

MLW84 · Jun 25, 2014

I hear people rave about Kaplan but personally I did not want to spend the money for that its like $400 that's ridiculous!! My school provided us with a 3 week course to NCSBN they are the ones that make the NCLEX and I would strongly recommend theirs! It is only $50 for their 3 week course also I found evolve.elsevier has a HESI/NCLEX prep course and it was $75 it has really good content and it has a practice test that tells you your weak areas and gives you a study calendar detailed for your needs and it has a few 265 practice test and mini test after each content area. Also get Lacharity delegation book because more than likely youll get a lot of delegation questions and who should you see first. Hope this helps you

RunBabyRN · Jun 25, 2014

Well, where are your weaknesses? They each have a different approach. Kaplan is good for strategies, Hurst is good for content. I'm not overly familiar with the others. I did Kaplan, and I felt the strategies were really helpful. Also, I felt like little of the content review did any good.

Figure out what YOU need and go from there. :)

Jazzyjazz · Jun 26, 2014

Well, where are your weaknesses? They each have a different approach. Kaplan is good for strategies, Hurst is good for content. I'm not overly familiar with the others. I did Kaplan, and I felt the strategies were really helpful. Also, I felt like little of the content review did any good.
Figure out what YOU need and go from there. :)

Yeah, I agree with baby run. It depends on what you need to focus on. I did both Kaplan and hurst. Hurst is more content and Kaplan is strategies. If you do the on demand for Kaplan, and you have a kindle, you get a free content book. I personally think that the Kaplan content book has mor details whereas the hurst is more general mas to the point. Hurst videos are much more enjoyable to watch.

Hope that helps.

MarilynnGroenow · Jun 26, 2014

I recommend Hurst, i did it, i only watched the videos 1 time and did 4 of the 6 practice test. I took my NCLEX tue and just found out i passed w/ 75 questions. i think it helps alot with content and strategy, their question answering strategy is way simpler then Kaplan and trust me when you go in there and are in front of that screen your not going to be able to remember to much strategy and you will probably find that a lot of the strategies dont apply.