With proper planning you can pass the NCLEX exam the first time. Most students pass the exam on their first try, but there is still a large percentage that don’t. When you take the time to determine how you are going to approach your studies, you can too! Only 87.1% of United States educated students and 47.4% of students educated abroad passed the NCLEX in the first quarter of 2008. This is down 2% and 10% for United States and internationally educated students compared to the first quarter of 2007 according to the NCSBN. An initial review of this statistic could be a bit disheartening, but when reviewing the numbers as a whole they are curious. Here are some interesting statistics .

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