NCLEX RN® Prep Review Questions and Practice Tests

Detailed Explanations for Distractor Answers

While BoardVitals question banks have always included detailed explanations, the NCLEX® question banks include additional details in those explanations, that focus particularly on the distractor explanations that can often trip up test takers during the exam. These distractor explanations will include graphics and images when applicable to help you learn the information better.

Alternate Item Format NCLEX® Questions

On test day, you’ll encounter a variety of question formats on your exam. In addition to the traditional multiple choice questions, we have added questions written in the “alternate item formats” you’ll find on the NCLEX®. These alternate format questions include:

• Select all that apply (SATA) or Multiple response items
  • Requires examinees to select more than one correct answer
• Graphic items
  • Items with graphics as answer options instead of text
• Hot spot items
  • Requires examinees to select an area of a figure to answer the presented problem
• Drag and drop ordered response items
  • Requires examinees to move options in a certain order
• Fill in the blank calculation items
  • Examinees must type in numbers in a calculation
• Audio questions
  • Examinees select an answer based on an audio clip
• Exhibit questions
  • Examinees will read a problem and interpret the information on a chart/exhibit in order to answer the problem

Unlimited Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) technology-enabled practice exams for the NCLEX®

To simulate actual NCLEX® exam conditions, the BoardVitals NCLEX® question banks are equipped with Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) technology. This means users can create a CAT practice exam to provide a sense of the style and difficulty of the exam at your unique knowledge level. Every time a user answers a question correctly, subsequent questions will increase in difficulty until a question is answered incorrectly. Similarly, questions will get easier as more questions are answered incorrectly. The number and difficulty of questions will vary for each user because the exam is considered complete once the competence of the candidate is determined. As you review, your questions on practice exams will reflect your improved understanding.

Users can create an UNLIMITED amount of CAT practice exams.

What is covered on the NCLEX RN® exam?

According to the NCSBN* NCLEX-RN® Test Plan, the following 4 major Client Needs categories will be covered on the exam:

• Safe and Effective Care Environment
  • Management of Care 17-23%
  • Safety and Infection Control 9-15%
• Health Promotion and Maintenance 6-12%
• Psychosocial Integrity 6-12%
• Physiological Integrity
  • Basic Care and Comfort 6-12%
  • „Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies 12-18%
  • „Reduction of Risk Potential 9-15%
  • „Physiological Adaptation 11-17%

The BoardVitals NCLEX RN® question bank are developed around the content distribution suggested by the NCSBN.

*Note that BoardVitals is not associated with the NCSBN.

What is Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)?

Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) is a type of computer-based testing used in the NCLEX® exams that adjusts the exam’s level of difficulty to the examinee’s ability, resulting in a more valid and reliable measurement of a candidate’s nursing competence. It does so by determining how consistently an examinee can answer questions correctly that are more difficult than the minimum passing standard needed to practice entry-level nursing.