Your NCLEX-PN weeks, planned in a minute.

The NCLEX-PN is a computer-adaptive test for practical and vocational nurses. Like the RN exam, it picks each question based on your earlier answers, so it rewards judgment over memorized facts.

1. Content review, the first 40% or so. One or two categories a day, each day ending with questions on what you read.
2. Practice and review, most of the middle. Mixed question sets daily, every rationale read, one timed practice test a week.
3. Final week. About 60% of your usual hours, your error log, and a day off before the exam.

Topic hours follow the midpoints of the client-needs ranges on the NCLEX-PN test plan, so Coordinated Care gets the most time. Any area you tick as shaky gets 50% more.

Check the current test plan at ncsbn.org before you rely on it.

A plan that survives week two beats a perfect one that doesn’t.

• Study at the same time each day. Your phone goes in another room for that block.
• Keep a log of every miss and why. Re-read it before each study day.
• When you miss a day, don’t double up. Carry on from where the plan says you are.