Originally Posted by gradnurse2
omg help me. i thought this time i would've passed. this is my third time taking the exam and still i'm not an RN. What a 4th of July celebration this is for me. to find out that i didn't pass the exam. i feel like i'm loosing my mind. i don't know what to do now. why can't i pass this exam. i read all the postings people put on this website and they pass but why can't i. omg help me. i feel like dying.

I too failed the exam for the third time. Last month I sat, I had ALL the questions. I was confident. I was happy. I was DETERMINED. All negative thoughts gone. All positive thoughts there. 265 questions, 5.5 hours later, I failed. The horrible thing is, I don't know what I could have done differently.
WHAT I am going to do is... take a break. Why? Because in FL, I believe you can only sit 3 times and then you have to do a LONG and expensive remedial class with clinical time. Are you kidding me??? Someone from Fl please explain.
But the other thing I'm going to do is challenge the board, though I haven't spoken to them yet. That is on the agenda. I have heard that if you challenge the board, then you will be able to VIEW your exam. For my sanity, I figure I need this. I went from 150, to 229, to all the questions... From my outlook I must be close. SO my question is HOW close... why did I fail at 265 and not 75? Why didn't I pass at 265, when the odds should have been there for me?
The only other option for me, and it would actually SAVE me time and money, is to test out of state... That is another possibility.
BUT gradnurse2, chin up, count your blessings in life (I have to get away from my nursing career thus far), but I do have many blessings I am thankful for, and then rock on. We will get through this.
GOOD LUCK!