After reading through a good number of anxious posts but our current NCLEX takers, I wonder how old timers like me would fair on the NCLEX exam. I almost wish I could take it to find out- but I wouldn't want my licence to depend on the result!

I don't even want to think about that exam again. It was exhausting. But I think I could pass it still.

You would bring back bad memories...........

The very thought makes me panic. Face down that beast again??

But, still, I'd be willing to bet I'd pass. After all, a coupla years in the trade has to account for something, yes?

I know I could pass it, but only because I teach NCLEX-RN preparation classes. What many of us old-timers don't realize (and I do only because I have to know these things) is that the test used to be pretty much an examination of knowledge: facts and what they mean. Today's test is about critical thought, so much less like nursing school classes and much more like practice.

Once in a while I will have a nightmare where I have to take my NCLEX again and I usually wake up in a sweat.

Once in a while I will have a nightmare where I have to take my NCLEX again and I usually wake up in a sweat.

Thanks a lot!!! Now my "its the day before finals and I just remembered I am enrolled in stats" dream will be replaced by NCLEX terrors!!! :uhoh21: :chuckle: :lol_hitti:

You would bring back bad memories...........

Would you ever . . . . . sheesh. No thanks.

steph

Would you ever . . . . . sheesh. No thanks.

steph

Reminds me: a group of us from my graduating class pledged to keep our registrations active until we DIED, so we'd never face re-taking that danged thing! Personally, I want my fees paid up until the year after my death, just so I don't have any notices hanging over my head, LOL!

Thanks a lot!!! Now my "its the day before finals and I just remembered I am enrolled in stats" dream will be replaced by NCLEX terrors!!! :uhoh21: :chuckle: :lol_hitti:

OMG, I have the same exact dream every once in a while. It is always Stats class, lol. Probably because in my young and stupid years I stopped going to Stats just because I didn't like it and never actually dropped. I ended up failing and had to retake it. Got an "A" the next time around! :wink2:

Whoa, that's something I'd have to think LONG and hard about.

I'm a great test taker, but haven't ever been exposed to the NCLEX. I haven't missed a question yet on the NCSBN site , but in RL that might not be the case.

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After reading through a good number of anxious posts but our current NCLEX takers, I wonder how old timers like me would fair on the NCLEX exam. I almost wish I could take it to find out- but I wouldn't want my licence to depend on the result!

Actually, you can take it. Simply get an NCLEX study book that has sample tests... and take one.

Any veteran nurse should be able to pass it--it is the very definition of competent BASIC nursing. Frankly, if you're an experienced nurse, I'd be very worried if you couldn't.

As the poster just before me said, I suspect you'd pass it & even think it was easy. I took it jaut last November so, obviously, it is a recent memory but I know that I have learned so much in this short time that I didn't know then. I thought it was hard when I took it & I was an A student but I think it would be so much easier now.

It would be a kick to take out my old NCLEX book & see how easy the questions appear now.

Dixie