NCLEX-RN Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy Review

NCLEX-RN Questions and Answers Made Incredibly Easy is still on sale in its 7th edition, which Wolters Kluwer published on 18 August 2016 and lists at $86.99. Ten years on it is the oldest NCLEX book we review, and the publisher's own product description still tells students the exam runs "from 75 questions" to "265 questions", a range NCSBN no longer uses.

Buy it only as extra drilling next to a current question bank, and only at a discount. If this is the one book you buy, buy a different one.

The writing is the reason people still recommend it. The Incredibly Easy voice, the cartoons and the two-column layout genuinely make a 912 page question book less punishing than its rivals. None of that changes the date on the copyright page.

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The 7th edition on the publisher's own store, with the 2016 publication date under the ISBN. Source: shop.lww.com (captured September 2026).

NCLEX-RN Q&A Made Incredibly Easy Overview

This is a question book with a personality. It is divided into seven parts: one on how NCLEX items are built and how to prepare, four covering the content areas of a pre-licensure program (medical-surgical, psychiatric and mental health, maternity, pediatrics), one on management, leadership and ethical and legal issues, and a final part holding three comprehensive tests.

The layout is the design decision that defines it. Questions sit in the left column, answers and rationales sit in the right. You cover the right side, work a page, then uncover it. No flipping to an answer key at the back, which is how most printed question books lose you twenty minutes an hour.

What the publisher says you get:

• 3,500 questions printed in the book, across 912 pages of full-colour layout
• More than 3,000 further questions online, through an accompanying PassPoint trial site
• Rationales for the wrong answers as well as the right one, which is where the teaching happens
• Every alternate item format in use when the book was written: multiple response, hot spot, fill-in-the-blank, ordered response, chart and exhibit, graphic, audio and video
• Reference tables for measurements, laboratory values, and heart and breath sounds
• Psychiatric content aligned to the DSM-5, and feedback from more than 100 nursing faculty and recent graduates in the United States and Canada

Two things are worth flagging before you read any further. The publisher does not say how long the PassPoint trial runs or when the online question set was last refreshed. And there is no 8th edition: search for one and you land back on this page.

NCLEX-RN Q&A Made Incredibly Easy Review For 2026

The exam moved twice after this book went to print

The product description says the questions "are aligned with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) 2016 RN test plan". That was a selling point in 2016. NCSBN updates the test plan every three years, and the plan in force today took effect on 1 April 2026 and runs to 31 March 2029. The 2016 plan has been replaced three times over.

The book's publication date against the two changes to the exam since. Source: Wolters Kluwer, NCSBN and the 2026 NCLEX Candidate Bulletin, read September 2026.

The bigger gap is the format. The Next Generation NCLEX launched on 1 April 2023, adding unfolding case studies and stand-alone clinical judgment items built to measure decision making rather than recall. This book predates that by six and a half years, so those item types are not in it. Nor is partial credit scoring, which the 2026 NCLEX Candidate Bulletin describes as three separate methods: plus and minus, zero and one, and rationale scoring.

Then there is the detail that gives the whole thing away. The publisher's product page explains that Part VII holds three comprehensive tests "of varying lengths from 75 questions (the minimum number of items any student taking the NCLEX RN will receive) to 265 questions (the maximum number of items any student taking the NCLEX RN will receive)". The bulletin above says the NCLEX-RN "can be anywhere from 85 to 150 items", in a five hour window. A student who plans around this book's framing is preparing for a 265 item marathon that cannot happen, and has never practiced the 85 item minimum that can.

6,500 questions is two numbers wearing one label

Every listing for this book leads with "6,500+ questions", and our own NCLEX book roundup did too until today. The publisher's feature list is more precise: "More than 6,500 NCLEX-style questions (3,500 in the book and more than 3,000 interactive questions online)".

So the printed book holds 3,500. The other 3,000 live on a trial site attached to a title from 2016, with no stated trial length on the product page. Treat the online half as a bonus that may or may not still be there, and judge the purchase on the 3,500 you can hold.

At $86.99, 3,500 printed questions works out to 2.5 cents each, or 9.5 cents per page. That is not a bad rate by itself. It is a bad rate for questions written to a superseded test plan, which is the calculation our review methodology makes when it weights question volume: volume counts for less when the items are not built to the current exam.

The two-column layout is the thing it still does better

Credit where it is due. The side-by-side format is the best self-testing layout on the printed NCLEX shelf. Lippincott Q&A Review, from the same publisher, groups its answers at the end of each test, which is right for simulating a test and wrong for drilling. This book is built for drilling, and the rationales cover why the distractors are wrong, not just why the key is right.

The tone does real work too. Nine hundred pages of NCLEX questions is a grind, and the cartoons, the jokes and the colour coding keep people turning pages. If you have bounced off Saunders because it reads like a textbook, this is the opposite failure mode, and for some students that is the difference between studying and not studying.

What it cannot do is score you. A book has no adaptive engine, no readiness estimate, and no record of your accuracy over time. The NCLEX-RN stops when the computer is confident about you, somewhere between 85 and 150 items, and our pass probability calculator shows how that stop rule behaves against a given accuracy rate. Pair any book with something adaptive.

NCLEX-RN Q&A Made Incredibly Easy Pricing

One edition, three formats, all read on the publisher's store on 19 September 2026.

What the publisher charges for each format, and the one that expires. Source: shop.lww.com, read September 2026.

The publisher lists two VitalSource eBooks of the same edition at different prices and explains the difference on neither page. The only stated distinction is the 60 month digital term on the cheaper one, so read the $61.99 option as five years of access rather than a permanent copy.

Every roundup that covers this title, ours included until today, quotes roughly $40 to $50. That figure comes from retail listings for four different editions, several of them a decade or more old, and it is not a price Wolters Kluwer charges for anything. The publisher's page also notes that your school may offer the title through Lippincott Direct for less, which is worth a question to your program before you buy anywhere.

For scale, on their publishers' own stores Lippincott Q&A lists at $83.99, HESI at $80.99 in print, Saunders at $75.99, and Kaplan at $54.99. This is the joint most expensive book on our NCLEX shelf, and the only one of the five still selling a 2016 edition.

Who NCLEX-RN Q&A Made Incredibly Easy Is Best For

• Students who already own a current question bank and want cheap printed volume on top of it, for the commute or the times a screen is the last thing they want
• Anyone who studies better with a lighter voice. If dense clinical prose makes you close the book, the Incredibly Easy style is a real advantage
• Students drilling fundamentals, where nursing content has moved least since 2016: fluids and electrolytes, lab values, basic pharmacology, growth and development
• Second-time candidates who have worked through the mainstream banks and want a set of items they have not already seen

When You Might Look Elsewhere

• You are buying one book. Saunders Comprehensive Review teaches the content and brings its own questions, and the edition on sale is nine years newer than this one
• You want practice built for the current exam. UWorld and Archer Review both write to the Next Generation format and both score you, which no book can
• You want the most printed practice. Lippincott Q&A Review is the bigger book from the same publisher, at 1,152 pages and a 2023 edition
• You want a plan rather than a pile of questions. Our NCLEX study guide converts the 2026 test plan into what to study, and the NCLEX book roundup sets all five books side by side

Final Verdict

The practical advice: do not pay list. If you want it, look for the paperback second hand, treat the 3,500 printed questions as supplementary drilling, and get your realistic practice from something written after April 2023. Start at our NCLEX hub if you are still putting a study plan together, because the order you buy things in matters more than which question book you end up with.

NCLEX-RN Q&A Made Incredibly Easy FAQs

How much does NCLEX-RN Q&A Made Incredibly Easy cost?

Wolters Kluwer lists the 7th edition at $86.99 for the paperback and $86.99 for one VitalSource eBook, with a second VitalSource eBook at $61.99 that carries a 60 month digital term, all verified on 19 September 2026. The widely quoted $40 to $50 comes from retail listings of older editions, not from the publisher.

How many practice questions does it have?

More than 6,500 in total, but the publisher splits that figure: 3,500 questions are printed in the book and more than 3,000 are online through an accompanying PassPoint trial site. The product page does not say how long that trial lasts, so plan around the 3,500 in print.

Is there an 8th edition coming?

The publisher lists no newer edition, and searching for an 8th edition returns the 7th edition page. The 7th edition from 18 August 2016 is what is on sale, so waiting for a refresh is not a strategy with a date attached to it.

Is this book aligned to the current NCLEX test plan?

No. Its questions are aligned to the NCSBN 2016 RN test plan, and the plan in force now took effect on 1 April 2026. The book also predates the Next Generation NCLEX launch of April 2023, so it contains no unfolding case studies or clinical judgment items, and its comprehensive tests are described as 75 to 265 questions when the exam is 85 to 150.

Is it enough to pass the NCLEX on its own?

No. It has almost no content teaching, no adaptive delivery, no scoring, no readiness estimate and no pass guarantee. Use it as extra drilling alongside a content review book and a question bank written for the current exam.

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