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Secrets from an NCLEX insiderâ€”revealed!

How Do You Know If You’re Ready to Ace the Test?
You’ll know you’re ready if you know the information backwards and forwards. NCLEX is notorious for difficult questions, and that is by design. According to Billings, “The exam is testing at a higher level. [Students] have to apply information that they have to a new situation, analyze data in a situation or create from the data, which is the highest level.”

Ordinary tests ask you to memorize data and spit it back out, but the NCLEX isn’t like that because nursing isn’t like that. You have to know how to bring it all together. Billings agrees. “Nurses must synthesize all the data to make a clinical judgment.”

References: National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN); 2010 NCLEX-RNÂ® Detailed Test Plan; April 2010 (https://www.ncsbn.org/2010_NCLEX_RN_Detailed_Test_Plan_Educator.pdf)

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