Preparation Books

On the CD it is just like the test you will fail on most of the test though;-0. The CD says that you can take the test a total of 3 times NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. I have a computer degree and I could NOT take it that many times on one computer nor could my friends. Thank GOD I have 3 computers I just installed on my other computers and ran the program again. GOOD LUCK! ;-)

This was the only content review book I looked at for the NCLEX-RN exam. I passed with 75 questions. The book contains all needed information for success in the "BOARDS". It is well organised and straight to the point. I highly recommend this book to those who want to avoid overstudying for the exam. In addition, the book may be best for new nursing school grads taking the licensure exam for the first time.

I passed with 75 questions. I USED THE NCLEX RN CD.... just master the rationales. This is all u need to pass!!

The book is well organized and easy to reference the answers and rational.

These review cards are a great way to study for the NCLEX exam. They are convenient to carry along and study on the go. I found the rationales to be clear, precise and helpful. The cards are divided into categories; making it easy to focus on areas in which you may need more practice. I mark these as a "must have" for all RN nursing students!

If you were napping during Neuroanatomy there is a way out. Read this book. The authors have written clear and concise descriptions leaving out all of the frills that will never make it into the USMLE. So fire up your dendrites with a quart of caffeine and go cover to cover in two nights.
You'll at least be able to critique Hannibal Lecter's table manners.

I love the Recall series. I discovered it with Surgery Recall, and though I haven't had my surgery or my neurology rotation yet, I still find that I'm learning from both books. The recall books are organized as self-tests where a key word or question is given, and the answer is on the other half of the page, so you cover one half of the page, read the key word or question, and try to answer it, then check yourself and repeat if necessary until you know it inside out. It's an excellent way to cram the basics of neurology firmly into your head.

Some problems:
1- Some of the basics reviewed in the Neurology Recall book are a little too basic, which makes me not want to repeat certain pages even if there may be a challenging or important point mixed in with the easy stuff, but on the other hand, it certainly has quite a lot of information that I didn't know in it, and there's less of the basic stuff the farther I get into the text.
2- If you repeat a page enough times, it's easy to know the response based on the location of the question on the page or the question that came before it, rather than actually associating the correct answer with the question. One way to solve this is to cover up the questions and see if you can deduce the question by looking at the answer. If you have, you've actually learned it.
3- At least one typo in the mapping of the pharynx and lips to their respective areas in the motor cortex (Compare p.64 to p.65). Most books have some typos, so I recommend this book anyway, but hopefully there aren't too many more that I've missed.

I've paired this Neurology Recall book with Pretest Neurology and I feel that it's a great combination. Neurology Recall is good for pure memorization, while the clinical scenario type questions in Pretest Neurology provide context for some of the information you're memorizing. Pure memorization without context is not very conducive to functional use of the material you've memorized. Similarly, questions without learning the basics first don't necessarily make any sense, but learning the background and then using it by doing practice questions works very well.

Adequately selected pictures. Inexpensive. Easy to understand.

As a first year medical student, my school requires the NBME Shelf exams be taken as the final exam in our Neuroanatomy class. Our professor is new and does not prepare us well for this exam (last year's class averaged the 12th percentile). A friend of mine recommended this book to be and I read it twice 5 days before the shelf exam and I scored in the 94th percentile. I can honestly say that this book was key in my preparation and if you can learn this book and learn it well, you have a great understanding of medical neuroscience and will do well on the shelf exam.

The book itself is in a great format: 500 questions with answers and explanations. The best part is, the explanations are grouped together if questions are related to one another so the explanations almost read like a textbook. Even if you have had bad experiences with the Pre-test series, I believe that this one is unbeatable and much MUCH better review than the BRS, at least for the shelf exam.

I used to work at the restaurant. The food was fantastic. Philomena did a wonderful job with this book. The Sopaipillas are to die for along with the sopa and just about everything in the book. It sure would be good if it could go on the market again.