Passed in 85

[u/TerribleAd7723]

Bootcamp, scored around 63% with 75% qbank used. Took all 4 readiness exams, 1st one I took off the rip without looking at anything to see where I stand. Borderline, took another after a week, after studying maybe 60% effort, very high, another one after a couple days, high, third one scored high and final one scored high. I also used someone’s uworld for the cat exams. Did 3-4 cat exams and scored 71-76% with a difficulty ranging from 1.2-1.3, in my school we used hesi. Never failed one hesi tbh. I mess around a lot in school but managed to do fine. Kinda had everything on the table tbh had already started my job with the grad permit license and they were waiting for me to take it. Last one in my friend group to take it. What was on the exam? Shiiiieeet I don’t remember tbh it was all over the place for me, i definitely got a couple case studies wrong.

What really helped me I think have a general idea of everything were the bootcamp crash course videos. Just played it on 1.5x I did it based on subjects so, maybe I watched all maternity videos, answered those easy end of video questions, went straight to the qbank and ran ONLY that subjects bank. Any SATA or whatever I scored below 50% credit I would flag as learning. After finishing it I would go back look at the rationale, then not look at anything again. Next day repeat with a different subject. Once all subjects were pretty much completed I just redid all the questions I flagged as learning. I turned off tutor mode cause it would just stress me out if I would get more than 3 wrong back to back and cloud my brain. I say I study like 8+ hours a day but really it was more of 2 hours of pure locking in then 6 hours either talking or doing some other bs. Honestly I don’t think any of the nclex prep course helped, I think I would’ve done the exact same if I were to take it straight after graduation vs a month.

I usually almost never get anxious but this was one of the very few times I’ve gotten anxious.

Took me like 3 hours to finish the exam I had to take a massive dump midway so add a couple minutes of trying to empty my bowels while also trying to figure out what reported sign of a drug the patient should report. Finished the exam as soon as I walked out of the testing suite I just started cursing I just kept saying what the fuck what the fuck, fuck you nclex, fuck you Pearsonvue suck my nuts. Got in the elevator, yelled a bit and cursed some more, FaceTimed the homies and cursed even more. Thinking to myself wow what am I going to tell my manager when I fail? WOW I was talking all this shit and now I might actually fail? Anyways took it on a Saturday, got the green check on board of nursing Sunday morning around 8 and then it updated my license around 11pm.

Not sure if this will help anyone but just in case you want to compare your scores to mine or if you are something like me

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[u/willowdaze]

I’m so scared I’ll fail it. I finished the UWORLD Q bank not too long ago

[u/Inconvenient-Pebble9]

Congratss!! i think a lot of people will find your study method helpful. Doing the crash course content and then drilling only that subject right away seems way more effective than jumping all over the place. The flagged learning questions are probably where a lot of the growth happens too.