Completing the Mental Health Adaptive Quiz gave me my first experience with taking a true NCLEX style quiz/test that turns off after successfully completing a certain percentage of questions. I knew that it could stop at any point after 75 questions and when I reached 75 I definitely felt more pressure that I had to keep going, but I took a deep breath and remained focused until it stopped at 99. Many of the questions were heaving drug based and shows that I should look over that material more and become more comfortable with it again. I plan on starting remediation today (the day of completing the exam) and will divide up the amount of questions to do several a day to have it completed within a week. I would say about half of the questions that I answered incorrectly were because I wasn’t able to recall the correct answer and half were if I had not heard of something within the question or the correct answer. There were definite themes of questions that I got wrong including questions prioritizing care for clients with bipolar disorder in manic states, several questions about buspirone and prioritization for patients of suspected abuse. One area that I would like to improve on for my next adaptive ATI quiz is to take more time on each question. I get anxious when I have a question in front of me and think that I need to go fast but my average time for each question is one minute under the average. Ensuring that I can simulate a NCLEX environment and lower my anxiety will hopefully help and be a good test-taking strategy to do well.
