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NCLEX-RN Q&A (Princeton Review Series)

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I used this book after I completed a week long NCLEX review session to test myself and evaluate if the review was helpful. I scored just as poorly on the practice tests before as after the review course. The questions are outdated and the strategies given to me by the review intructor were not beneficial in taking these particular test questions. I thought some the questions were flawed and the answers sometimes just plain incorrect, as well as typos, which makes one wonder if the correct answers were typos. Also, the rationales are vague and do not fully explain why incorrect answers are incorrect. Very frustrating.

I found this book to be an extremely efficient aid to study for the NCLEX exam. The book is written to simulate actual questions on the exam and is set up in a format that enables the reader to test their knowlege in order to focus studying only the areas that you are weak in. The book contains 17 tests of 120 questions each that are selected in the same content manner as the NCLEX exam. I reccomend this book highly in preparing to take the exam.

This book is the only book you will ever need to buy to prepare yourself for the NCLEX EXAM. This book prepares you by taking seven tests and is all you will need to be successful. Although there were a couple of minor type O's, I found this book to be extremely helpful. Theresa,RN,BSN.(Detroit, MI)

This book is full of questions and done in the style of the NCLEX, with all the catagories mixed. Questions were a decent representative of what was on the actual test. However, I found about 1-2 errors in every 100 questions or so. Some had questionable wording, some were typos, and some were flat out incorrect answers. That was the most frustrating part and made it harder to trust the book. But I'd still recommend it as a question book with rationals for right and wrong answers.

This book is too old today to be useful as prep for the current NCLEX-RN. It was published in 1999. The test was reformatted last year or the year before and is much, MUCH harder than it used to be, so most NCLEX prep books published more than two years ago have questions that are much easier than anything current. The best use for this book is for nursing students who are in the first half of their program, and have not had a lot of content yet. The level of the questions are appropriate for, say, a sophmore in a baccalaureate program. A better choice for someone taking the NCLEX-RN would be just about any NCLEX prep book published in 2005 or 2006. Only buy this book if you are starting a nursing education program and want some basic questions.

My other gripe is that although the book boasts "over 2,000 questions," many of them repeat throughout the 17 tests. And they need a proofreader.