[TraumaNurse]

Hey Vinny,

You have the right attitude. You can't change it now. You may well have passed and in a couple of weeks will have a hang-over in celebration. If not, you know what you need to do and will do it. You may have also been given a lot of the "tester" questions that do not even count towards your score. I wish you the best of luck and hope you will report back with good news soon.

By the way, I take my boards on Thursday. I am a little more nervous now that I read you post since I have only read the "sweat book" twice and MM twice. I have one more day to review and then we will have to see what happens. I think a lot depends on the test you get on a particular day. I hope I have one of the "easy" ones. I have a big red "EASY" button to hit before I go into the test center...I hope it works!

[balutpinoysabutuan]

i congratulate you for your convictions:if you stumble and fall,pick up yourself and continue the battle.it may be hard in the beginning but you will ultimately win the war.KEEP IT UP GIRL!

[MaleAPRN]

Originally Posted by TraumaNurse

Hey Vinny,

You have the right attitude. You can't change it now. You may well have passed and in a couple of weeks will have a hang-over in celebration. If not, you know what you need to do and will do it. You may have also been given a lot of the "tester" questions that do not even count towards your score. I wish you the best of luck and hope you will report back with good news soon.

By the way, I take my boards on Thursday. I am a little more nervous now that I read you post since I have only read the "sweat book" twice and MM twice. I have one more day to review and then we will have to see what happens. I think a lot depends on the test you get on a particular day. I hope I have one of the "easy" ones. I have a big red "EASY" button to hit before I go into the test center...I hope it works!

Hey TraumaNurse,

You'll be fine! If you feel ready inside to take the test, then you are! A BIG GOODLUCK!

[MaleAPRN]

Originally Posted by balutpinoysabutuan

i congratulate you for your convictions:if you stumble and fall,pick up yourself and continue the battle.it may be hard in the beginning but you will ultimately win the war.KEEP IT UP GIRL!

Thanks so much for the encouragement! Oh, I appreciate the "KEEP IT UP GIRL!" cheer, eventhough I'm a DUDE. Hehehehehehe!

Vinny.

[TraumaNurse]

I'M DONE!!!!! Pass or Fail I took the certification exam today! Wooohooo!

It shut down at 90 questions which I really wasn't expecting. I can honestly say I knew about 50% for sure. About another 25% I could easily narrow down to 2 answers and then had to make an educated guess. The rest was a crap shoot. I had to laugh at some questions because I had absolutely no clue as to where to start with the answer. My only hope is that some of those were the "tester" questions.
Now the waiting begins! In 2-4 weeks, I will be either working as a CRNA or I will be studying to retake the exam. As for now, I can concentrate on doing some housework, landscaping, playing guitar, fishing, reading a book that does not include anesthesia in the title, working out, riding my bike and endless number of things that I have had little time to do.

For anyone else about to take your boards, GOOD LUCK!!!

[zoozoo]

WOW! I am really exited for you and wish that FedEx will bring you good news soon!
I am waiting for my interview right now and hope to get in next year.
Congratulations on taking THE EXAM again and wish you all the best in your careers as CRNAs!!!

[miloisstinky]

Dude, im a gamblin chick, and Im betting you passed, dont sweat it!

[MaleAPRN]

Originally Posted by miloisstinky

Dude, im a gamblin chick, and Im betting you passed, dont sweat it!

Thanks for the bet. I too, am hoping for the best because I promised all my friends there in L.A. that I would visit as soon as I know I passed. Its been over 2 years since I moved here back East from sunny Long Beach!

[jewelcutt]

Vinny, Dude, I'm sure you did great. With as much as you prepared and as scared as you are, I wish you all the luck in the world. I take it in three months, but I'm terrified because I barely knew any of the questions on the second SEE exam I took. I feel better now that I'm in my final semester and we're doing weekly exams for our review course but I only get in the 80's after studying the material intensively. I don't know how I'm gonna remember everything. I think you should take a break though, instead of studying M&M, take a break from studying for the last two plus years of your life and tell yourself you did fine, and that if you failed you will then pick up the books and study. I know everyone would want to retake the test ASAP after failing, but I think a two week break is necessary enough to gain sanity. Good luck, preooccupy yourself in the meantime, and smile.

[London88]

Vinny:

I am sure you did fine. Many of you out there who still have to take the exam should learn from this. I personally do not believe that valley is enough by itself. I supplemented each section of valley with M&M. Down to the day of taking the exam, not that I am advocating doing this, I woke up early and decided to read the renal chapter in M&M. Low and behold I had four questions which were literally taken from that chapter. If I had not thoroughly gone through M&M twice as well as valley, I probably would have gone past 90 questions and who knows what the outcome could have been. It is hard to say.