By What Type of Practice Works Best?
There are two main areas of focus that nursing students find most helpful. First is having a good grasp on the actual content covered in the test. Kendra Willbanks shares:
“At the beginning of my last semester, I bought a well-known book for NCLEX prep. However, it just taught me how to take the test and strategies. It didn’t review the content—which was what I needed. In picking up another review book, I learned so much! I hadn’t had some of the material in almost two years, so it was a great refresher. Knowing your core content is key to passing the NCLEX. You can’t know the answer if you don’t know the topic that the question is inquiring about! Hope this helps all those future nurses out there who are as scared of this test as I was.”
The other key appears to be focusing on the rationale behind each answer. You need to understand what the test makers are getting at when they ask the question, since that’s your biggest clue to the selecting the correct answer. Amanda Hoke used her last-minute cramming time to go through an NCSBN learning extension course. “It takes you through all the review and gives you hundreds of test questions with full rationale. Not to mention they are the nursing board that creates the NCLEX, so the questions are a dead ringer for what you actually see on the exam.”
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