Chapter 2
As a nursing student, you are used to taking multiple-choice tests. In fact, you’ve taken so many tests by the time you graduate from nursing school, you probably believe that there won’t be any more surprises on any nursing test, inlcuding the NCLEX-PN® exam.
But if you’ve ever talked to graduate practical/vocational nurses about their experiences taking the NCLEX-PN® exam, they probably told you that the test wasn’t like any nursing test they had ever taken. How can that be? How can the NCLEX-PN® exam seem like a practical/vocational nursing school test but be so different? The reason is that the NCLEX-PN® exam is a standardized test that analyzes a different set of behaviors from those tested in nursing school.