Tips on how to pass the Nurse Licensure Examination

(NLE) – Nov. 2019

1. DO NOT assume that you will know everything on the exams. Your academe has
guided you theoretically and clinically but the NLE will test your practicality and a lot
of the questions are situational.
2. It is perfectly NORMAL to feel nervous. Before answering questions, PAUSE for a bit,
PRAY, close your eyes, and inhale and exhale deeply.
3. DO NOT feel intimidated if the examinees next to you come from “BIG
UNIVERSITIES”. Only the student alone can ever be responsible for his fate, not his
university’s name. YOU are responsible for your own.
4. DO your best.
5. DO NOT rush.
6. Always make sure to have lots of pencils and a sharpener.
7. As much as possible, DO NOT erase.
8. Mind your shading. Shade cleanly and carefully.
9. HAVE faith in yourself.
10.Take your time but make sure to finish within the allotted time period.
11.RELAX.
12.EAT before taking the exam. Your brain needs all the glucose it can get.
13.ANALYZE each question.
14.Learn the art of multiple choice elimination.
15.If choices are composed of two extremely opposite ideas, one of the two is probably
the correct answer.
16.If choices are composed of similar but differently “stated” ideas, neither of them is
the correct answer.
17.If you find yourself thinking too much about one question, skip, then go back.
18.If a question asks for the BEST thing to do, BEST approach, pick the most IDEAL
and BOOK-BASED choice.
19.On the other hand, if the question asks for the FIRST thing to do, use TRIAGE. The
most IDEAL is NOT NECESSARILY the best answer. Remember EMERGENCY
NURSING.
20.The Philippines is a third world country. Your answer should consider this, except in
questions asking for the BEST thing to do.
21.Normal Human Anatomy and Physiology, ADPIE, and knowledge of what is normal
and abnormal will help you so much.
22.DO NOT ignore community health nursing, maternal and child health nursing,
and the IMCI.
23.DO NOT ignore any other nursing area.
24.DO NOT believe review centers who say to FOCUS on some topics MORE THAN
OTHERS. NOBODY knows the content of the exam. Do not be DECEIVED.
25. Remember that you were educated theoretically and clinically for four years for this.
You have what it takes to pass the Nurse Licensure Examination. Make this your
mantra.