Trucking Along

So far my progress has been slow but steady. My goals are to review my areas of weakness and do as many practice problems as I can. Right now I've been taking this as a learning experience and trying not to get hung up on the percent I get right but on learning the material and practicing. That being said, I would like to get more than 70% of the questions I answer correct. I'm not quite there yet, which is surprising given that I did well on tests at school. I read a book on test taking strategy but find myself answering questions quickly and not thinking through as much as I should. When I took tests in school, I was consistently one of the last people to turn in her test. I would mull over the questions and double check, sometimes triple check my answers if it involved math. While taking practice questions, if I don't know the answer right away, I tend to answer quickly and move on to the next one instead of thinking through the problem. I'm working off of a Mosby CD where there are over 300 questions per section (so far I've done the pedi and OB sections) and I take several breaks. On the NCLEX there could conceivably be this many questions that I may have to answer and at this point I should focus on stamina in taking as many questions that I can in one sitting while using good test taking strategies.