Originally Posted by suzanne4 People who get 265 questions usually waivered on the line through the whole test. They didn't get too high or too low from the line. That's where getting the last question right or wrong can in some cases matter. If you get the last question wrong and you end the test below the line than you will fail. That is not true for every test though because you could have been just high enough above the line that getting the last question wrong didn't make you end below the line.
I still do not agree with the above statement that was made by BlevinsRN.
Some people will get 265 questions, period. Getting the last question wrong when you have 265 questions still doesn't mean that you will not pass. There are many other factors that are taken into account, mainly the level of the the questions that are being asked.
I'm sorry you don't agree with what I posted. I was just relaying information that was told to me in school. I was also told that there are some people that will have 75 questions and 265 questions no matter what. It is somehow randomely done before the test is started.
What I wrote in my last post backs up what you said about getting the last question wrong. In my post, I simply explained why "in some cases" getting the last question wrong could cause you to fail. I do not agree that you will always fail if you get the last question wrong.
I do also agree with what you say about there being other factors involved. I did not mean to imply that passing and failing is only determined by the number of questions that are answered right. I believe that the questions are weighted. A question that they statistically believe to be harder would count for more than a knowledge level question. I know that there is way more to it than what was in my post but I figured that no one wanted me have a five page post here. I just summarized my opinion.
While I am absolutely no professional when it comes to the NCLEX scoring process, I was simply just trying to help.
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