3x Failed.. NCLEX plan Help

[Anonk3]

Hello!!

I am looking for advice on formulating a strong Study plan for my 4th attempt at passing boards. A little background on how my past e attempts have gone.

1st time I had no confidence I was very drained from nursing school. Lost my purpose . So taking it was just something I was suppose to do. Failed at 75. I knew I did.

2nd time a few months later took a hurst course. Felt a bit better but still lacked the confidence and my study plan was not solid. Nervously took that cried all the way home. Failed that at 78. Felt defeated

3rd time! I focused on myself.. getting my mental together regaining my purpose... finding work in the field even though I couldn't be a nurse. I am confident I went into that test accepting of the journey God has had me traveling. Win or lose . It took me 1 yr after the second attempt to do the 3rd and I felt much more ready. I used hurst for content. Uworld for question. Saunders for more in depth refreshing when I needed it. I failed that however I made it to 220 question and ran out of time. That for me was a victory cause it showed I was better.

Now im scheduled to go at this again. And I'm speaking victory into existence but I need help building a solid 5wk game plan.

Currently I have

content: hurst, Saunders

questions: uworld, Kaplan, nclex mastery

i recently bought lacharity delegation cause I felt i stumbled on many of those questions.

Any advice is good advice sorry if this was long.

also add. I work long night hours. And sitting for extended hours at a time has neverrrr been my strength.

Thanks!

[ArceusAlpha]

I feel like you may have too many sources at one time, especially with how you have time constraints. In terms of content, it's a lot to know, and Saunders in itself is quite overwhelming. Personally, I would choose Hurst OR Saunders, not both. Though Hurst would be the better one simply because of the review video's and practice sheets it comes with.

In terms of questions, practice is key. Do as many as you can. Not 1000 questions.... at least 2000+ questions! UWorld, Kaplan, and NCLEX Mastery are, I suppose, somewhat inherently different. I did not use Kaplan myself but do a search here if the "decision tree" is useful because I've heard some contradictory to it. RN Mastery from my experience was an excellent source that heavily focuses on content but tends to lack on other important topics on the NCLEX, like prioritization... and also that they only provided MC's and SATA's, no alternate questions.

UWorld, in my opinion, is the best of the three and by far. Not only does the program look like the real NCLEX, the questions were the closest to the NCLEX in terms of style and content. UWorld is complete with alternate questions, and this definitely helped me being comfortable in writing the exam because it all felt familiar.

What I did was first study my core content (Saunders) + RN Mastery. After that, I used Prioritization and Delegation by LaCharity (and I highly recommend this because I had quite a few of these questions on the NCLEX; and they are very difficult. You also get a lot of these practice questions on UWorld too.) After using PDA, I used UWorld.

Practice, Practice, Practice!

[knv723]

I agree with the post above. I used the same resources focus on content first then do questions. I had to retest a few times and each time tried something different but unnoticed the more you put the content into answering questions the better prepared I felt. Uworld is the best question bank and the rationales are great. Be sure to read each rationale whether you answer right or wrong and take notes on those if needed! Best of luck to you!! I had anxiety also & I started yoga and meditation as an escape while preparing for nclex it did me wonders! I finally passed in March! Don't over stress and try not to overthink, usually your gut instinct is right when answering questions!

[girlgoinatural]

I recommend you looking into Nursing Education and Study Center

[Dobbysanurse, BSN, RN]

I agree with the first comment. Do as many questions as you can! Leading up to my boards I did about 1000 a day for 2 weeks and made sure I remediated every 100 questions or so. I made sure I had a firm grasp on the basics and really focused on improving my question answering skills. I always remembered that patient safety is the absolutely priority as well when answering prioritization questions which seemed like have of my NCLEX test.

[sarahlee21]

I have taken the PN nclex 3 times, i graduated nursing school 2013, and the last time i took the nclex was on may 2015, i have been very discourage of not passing the nclex, i want this mission to me over. I don't know where to start, i heard u world is good, but again its been awhile and i really want to pass this nclex by Sept of this year. I don't know if that enough time for me to study especially since its been awhile.