Everything on the NCLEX, weighted the way the exam weights it. Nothing else.
The big marketplaces sell nursing bundles by the pound — 1,500 to 6,500 pages of unsequenced notes. NCLEX Decoded is the opposite: a study system built directly from the official NCSBN test plan, so every page you study is a page the exam actually draws from.
NCSBN publishes exactly how the NCLEX-RN® exam is weighted. Most study products ignore it. We mapped every module to it:
| Test plan area (NCSBN) | Share of exam | Your module |
|---|---|---|
| Management of Care | 15–21% | Module 7 — Prioritization, Delegation & Management |
| Pharmacological & Parenteral Therapies | 13–19% | Module 2 — Pharmacology |
| Physiological Adaptation | 11–17% | Module 3 — Medical-Surgical |
| Safety & Infection Control | 10–16% | Module 1 — Fundamentals & Safety |
| Reduction of Risk Potential | 9–15% | Module 3 — Medical-Surgical (labs, complications, perioperative) |
| Health Promotion & Maintenance | 6–12% | Module 4 — Maternal-Newborn · Module 5 — Pediatrics |
| Psychosocial Integrity | 6–12% | Module 6 — Mental Health |
| Basic Care & Comfort | 6–12% | Modules 1 & 3 |
Plus the Next Gen NCLEX layer that sits across the whole exam: case studies, bow-tie and trend items measuring clinical judgment. Every module trains them, and the free field guide below teaches the formats before you spend a cent.
Next Gen NCLEX questions are where exams are won and lost. Our free field guide walks through every NGN item type — case study, bow-tie, trend, cloze, matrix — with fully worked examples and the scoring explained in plain English.
The complete system: hyperlinked PDF you can tap through on a tablet, a print-ready edition, flashcard decks, and study plans. Delivered instantly by Payhip after checkout.
Condensed high-yield notes, must-know tables, and a module wrap for each area of the test plan.
Included in the $39 Core Bundle
Hundreds of original practice questions — multiple choice, select-all-that-apply, priority and delegation scenarios — each with a rationale that explains the right answer and why the tempting ones are wrong. Plus full NGN case studies, bow-tie and trend items, and two extra drill sets.
Included in the $39 Core Bundle
Printable flashcard decks and an Anki/Quizlet-ready file for every module, semester-by-semester study routes, a 6-week final countdown plan, and back-of-book appendices: master lab values, antidotes, drug suffixes and a 200-fact rapid review.
Included in the $39 Core Bundle
The condensed last-two-weeks review, derived from the same system: the 25 labs and 40 drugs that matter most, one-table antidotes and isolation charts, system-by-system top facts, prioritization drills, and NGN in 20 minutes.
Get NCLEX Cram — $19Struggling with drug classes and labs? Start with Pharmacology. Freezing on "which patient first" questions? That's Module 7's whole job. New NGN formats feel like a different language? Read the NGN case study walkthrough, then grab the free field guide. Not sure where you stand? Work through the free reference charts — lab values, antidotes, isolation precautions — and see what you can't yet recite cold.
Every free guide below is complete on its own. The bundle is for when you want the whole map in one place, sequenced, with questions that check you actually know it.
Complete, bookmarkable references and walkthroughs — the same tables and methods the bundle is built from.
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