C student and still passed NCLEX RN on 1st attempt.

Yes that"s right I am a C student, meaning I struggled a lot back on my college nursing years. I am not the the typical student that can understand the lesson one time, I need to read it multiple times to understand it. Yes that's me and I am not ashamed to admit it. :)

I knew from the start that nursing is one of the hardest course, but still I feel like this is my calling, that even if I am not good in academics my eagerness to learn makes me more determined to do it. When it comes to clinical hands on in patient I am fast learner, but I really struggled in academics. I have few B's and I remember I got A in religious subject. :) yes that's right.

Now on my NCLEX journey, I decided to take Nclex last January 2016 because all of my classmates passed it already and I feel like I left behind. I graduated 4 years ago from another country, and I had this feelings that I cannot pass nclex ever because of my situation. I have a one day learner and forget it the next day. haha I know it's silly but I feel like if I'm going to study nclex and I will just waste my time especially there's a lot to memorize. yup I thought about that and that makes me more depressed and my confidence to pass it, was so little.

And then one day someone told me that If you will not the risk you will never know if you can do it or not. So I thought about it and I said to myself that why not give it a try. So I bought a book Saunders but to my dismay I always found myself sleeping after 3 pages haha no matter how many cups of coffee I had and still feels like the books is sleeping pills.

So my friend recommends me UWORLD and LaCharity she said that"s all you need. And I started to do questions everyday for 2 months, at first my scores weren't that encouraging like I got 10% on my practice questions, so I continue to practice test and diligently write the rationale on my PAD so for 2 months of non stop doing questions everyday and that's accumulated for 6,000+ practice questions. I used questions from Mastery nclex rn, Uworld, Lacharity, Saunders and etc. Yes I did only questions plus I wrote the rationale that's all I did. I record the normal values on my voice memos on my phone and other important information that i have struggle to memorize specially maternity and pedia. I listened to it every night or every meal.

The day before my exam date I read all the rationale I wrote whole day until 10pm and sleep, I woke up early to prepare and once again to read the rationale (I said before that I easily forgets the information so I needed to browse it again on the day of my exam) my exam is in the afternoon, and on the way to testing center that took me 1.5 hours of travel, I listened again to the voice memos that i recorded.

I came to testing center 2 hours earlier so I stopped by to the nearest church (yes I am true believer) I asked God to sit next to me while I am answering my questions and guide me to pick the right one and I promised that I will be back in that church after my exam and will do the PVT trick there.

As I am so nervous I proceeded to testing area and took a deep breath. the examiner told me that I can use the headphone if I don't want any noise. So when I seated and put the headphone, as I am answering the sample questions I am hearing a noise even if I am using the headphone and when I took it off the noise was not there, when I put it back the noise that I am hearing was there again, and found it that was my heartbeat pumping so fast. It's crazy that I feel so nervous that time and I begun to pray to take away my nervousness.

So here comes my 1st question and its ECG strip with SATA and I was like oh my why in the world that my 1st questions is SATA? So I answered it very calmly until reached 74 and told to myself I needed more questions because I am not sure of my answers and reached the 75 and it stopped! and I was like oh my I failed because my last question was not that hard. It was a diet question.and once again as I am answering the survey question my heart pumping so loud.

When I went out from the room the examiner said to me Good luck I know you will pass, and I said I really hope that too. As I am walking outside the testing center my legs went limp and I can't hear anything from people passing by it's like my time stopped and found myself back in the church again, my whole body was shaking because I knew that there's no way I will pass that test in only 75 questions. And as I am sitting there in church I opened my phone and tried the PVT tick. It was good pop up! I was crying inside the church and thanked God that He made this possible for me. I know without His guidance I will not make it. And oh someone post a prayers here the Saint Joseph Cupertino prayer I prayed that every night and before going inside the testing center. It helped me because I asked him that in my exam the question and answer that I knew will come out on my exam, and it did. I have difficulty in maternity and pedia questions but to my surprised the one that I got in my exam is the one that i knew and studied.

My advice to those people who are giving up and has anxiety on this test, don't limit yourself, everything is possible if you are determine. Have faith in God and to yourself . If you did not make it one time don't give up, God has a better plan for us than we have to ourselves. Doing questions, study and most of all prayers are all that we need to beat this NCLEX. Good luck to the future test taker.