[Jules A]

I didn't find it especially hard but I'm normally a pretty confident test taker so that helps. I did the PN test in 50 minutes, 85 questions. Since it shut off at the minimum number I was certain I had passed because I knew I didn't do so poorly that it wouldn't have given me some extra questions.
We'll see what the RN test is like.

[purple1953reading]

I had a niece who took the test, and had to take all of the questions, and did not know if she didn't know that many answers or was just one of the unfortunate ones who had to take all the questons. Mine went from the beginning to more and more difficult questions. I was done in 20 minutes, and it took me longer to do the post was the room comfortable, chairs right height/ part than the exam. Felt like I couldn t have failed in that few questions> I thought that maybe people consider them difficult because they are like 5 part questions, with history, labs, meds, etc. Maybe people expect short one word answer questions, instead of having to analyze what lab results are normal, take in to consideration their age, sex, nationality, prior history, etc. They often post the results for schools on how many out of a given class pass, in the state nursing quarterly. Look up your school before you start is a good idea.

[Josers better half]

I took mine April 4th and I am still waiting for results (NCLEX-PN). In school at every terms end we took a Hesi test and at the end, we had an Exit Hesi Exam which would let you pass if you scored 850 points. If you got anything under that, you didn't graduate. So I thought after all that and my review course, I was ready to take the NCLEX. So as I drove up to the Pearson Vue, I was nervous as hell and when I got in and answered the 1st 3 questions....haaay not bad, except I have a feeling it's going to get harder. OH AND DID IT!! It would get harder and harder then they threw in a string of fairly easy ones like dosage/math questions. And then it would get extremely hard. Like questions with the possible three answers! Shoot, maybe four good answers even, but you had to prioritize! Mine shut off at 193 and I was so heartbroken after. I felt like my brain was working so hard and BOOM, 193, done. I walked out feeling a lil different, like you know what, I think I passed. But then it all changed again when I started calling the friends. "Were the last three hard?" "Did your questions go from easy to hard" I got all those questions from classmates and friends, and I thought, oh crap I'm done, I'm a gonner, I didn't make it probably. Let me tell you all, every night has been a living nightmare for me. I feel so sorry for my hubby....who would want to hear my voice whining every day?!!! So I wait like most of you guys. I'm going to church in an hour and I will pray and I'm going to pray for you all too!

[jls1117]

Originally Posted by RNsRWe

"Easy" is relative. What I might consider an easy question, another might consider difficult, and vice versa. Didn't you know people in school who easily answered questions you found hard? Did that make the questions hard or easy?

As long as the questions you get and answer correctly are at or above the minimum passing standard, you pass. Doesn't matter if you found them easy or hard. Some of the questions I got I rememeber thinking "this is for a NURSING exam, not a pre-requ for brain surgeons??". But some of them got me thinking "this is too easy, I must be failing this exam to get such a simple, straightforward question".

I passed the exam with both types of questions on my screen. Which questions were at the minimum standard, which were above or below, I couldn't say, no one here can either.

A former classmate of mine swore her test was way too easy, and she didn't believe that she likely got about half of them wrong. She felt she aced it, lol. And another found the test a total mind-wringer, sweating all the way through, and she didn't believe she could even have gotten 25% right, let alone 50%. They both passed.

i thought mine was easy...well coz it was the second time around for me and it stopped at 78....i dunno if its coz i was really prepared for it this time...coz i graduated in december..took a review class then n studied, then took it on March, but failed so i started studying again..so its kinda like i never stopped studying ever since i started around January..so when i re-took the exam i went thru 78 questions in about 2 hours...maybe i got so used answering questions coz i practiced more than 1000 questions during my review...

[blackmama]

i feel the same way too..