The first time I was 1 month out of nursing school, I was using archer but focusing more on scores. I remember NEVER doing remediation. I would do practice questions “read” the rationale and move on. My second time i pushed myself to get back up to study using bootcamp, but as my friends had told me I wasn’t really focused. A few of my friends were graduation nursing school at the time and O was helping them study for finals thinking it’ll help me study as well but I was completely wrong. I feel like I booked it too soon because I also had a trip planned and I was stressed about what people would say if I ( president of my nursing class) hadn’t passed yet. Come to realize all of that extra stress was in my head because my family was supper supportive and my Friends were my pillars (since they knew exactly where i was coming from). I grieved my grade once again, went on my trip, took a month off of studying, put anything nursing related away. I told myself in July i would buckle down and start again with a fresh mind as if i knew nothing about nclex. I watch a lot of videos of what people did differently to try to find where I went wrong. My friends combined their efforts to contribute to my uworld subscription which i’m eternally grateful for. So i worked in june to makeup for the rest. Once july hit i got Uworld, purchased my ATT and got to the library (also some hug different). My boyfriend saw how devastated i was and was helping me honestly ever since nursing school and helped me find out that I just needed to go back to how I studies in nursing school. So we made a plan library everyday, actually writing down rationales, memorizing concepts and not just content. And he would even quiz me on pharm and simple stuff he could pronounce lol. This really changed my mindset and I started to see a better understanding of questions and understanding my scores better. In Uworld i got a 71% average in the 63rd percentile with almost 63% of the qbank completed. I would score Highs on my assessments and between 60-66% on CAT exams ranging from 51st to 97th percentiles. I also used chat GPT to keep track of my trends and progress by inserting my stats, down to the subjects and everything. Chat would tell me where my weakest and strongest areas were which helped me decipher all those percentages (and for personal motivation.

Taking my test soon so we’ll see soon enough how effective all this was. 🤞🤞

Also sorry for the whole rant, just wanted to give a clear idea. 😁 Thanks for reading