It took me just over 2 hours to complete. I was so dehydrated by the end of it for some reason. After the computer stopped at 85 I felt relief that it was finally over. And when I walked out of the testing room I thought it was fine and was just like taking a uworld cat exam. However, I took it early in the morning and as time went on I kept thinking that I either did really bad or I did really well and that was eating me up inside. Throughout the day I’d suddenly remember questions I was pondering on the exam and I would search them up to see if I got them right and if I got them wrong that would ruin my confidence lol. Also, I didn’t have insanely hard questions so I thought I might’ve failed. 2 days after taking the exam I paid the $8 to see my results and passed!
My study method: completed ~80% of the uworld q bank with a 72% average. I did about 85 questions/day. At first I started out with practice tests and then did CAT exams. I took 2 of the self assessments and both had a very high probability of passing. I also typed the rationale I didn’t understand/didn’t know for all the questions I got wrong. Then I listened to mark klimek’s lecture 12 on priority and delegation.
It wasn’t as vague as I thought it would be (thank god). I also didn’t really get any diseases or meds I’d never seen before, just ones I vaguely remember seeing the name of but not know what it entirely is. One thing however that really made my mind spin were those really long case studies. On uworld they break up those nurse/admission/progress notes and it’s super easy to digest but on the NCLEX it doesn’t break it up for you into neuro, cardiac, resp, etc, so for me it just felt super taxing. I guess it was just closer to what you’d see in the clinical setting where there are superrrr long progress notes to read.
All in all it just felt like a ATI comp or uworld CAT exam. If you consistently score the same in those you’ll do fine!