I ran out of Time at 130 questions on Dec. 28?

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Hello,

I am new to asking a question on this site, but I am getting really ancy! I took my NCLEX- RN test Dec. 28 at 2pm and I ran out of time. I did 130 questions in six hours! I left crying thinking because I ran out of time that I may have failed. So then I did some research and on NCSBN it states that: if you run out of time before you get to the total amount of 265 questions they have to evaluate your test differently, by looking at the last 60 questions if they are all above the pass line or not. If they are all above the pass line you passed, but if one is below the line out of your last 60 questions you fail! :-(

I am trying to determine if I have a big chance of passing or not. I was reading that application questions and SATA are above the line questions and content definition based questions are below the line. (I did not have any definition based questions that I remember...) Is this true?

I felt really confident in all of my answers and did not feel that I was lacking content. I even had a dream last night that I passed! LOL! It took me the entire 6 hours because I literally wrote down on the dry erase board the topic, question, and if each answer was true or false in response to the question. It helped a lot, but every question like that takes forever!

I did do the Pearson-Vue Trick, but it just says card declined, but I dunno, because the computer didn't shut off on me, I just ran out of time! :-( Any advice? I am getting a bit bummed (due to PVT trick), but I am really hopeful I passed!

Any one have this experience and have positive results?

I hope someone did, because that was the worst 6 hours of my life and I really do not want to do it again EVER! LOL!

Hope to hear good news... Thank you in advance! :-)

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

I'm just thinking this out logically- if the computer did not shut off before the end of the time, it is very possible you did not pass.

To me, it sounds like you need to work on time management- the method you described is not necessary and is making you completely over think each question. You should typically be able to eliminate two answers right away.

I passed at 75 questions in 45 mins- for two weeks before all I did was answer questions and study the rationale for each question. This helped me with speed and zeroing in on the key terms in each question needed to successfully answer it.

Good luck to you!

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Ok Thank you!

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Specializes in ICU.

You can definitely pass if you ran out of time. The minimum questions you can get is 75 on the NCLEX-RN, however, 15 of those questions are pilot questions that will not count against you. So you're technically only scored on 60 of those questions. The test will shut off when they are 95% sure that you have met the standard. If you are a little above the standard the test won't shut off. So there is a chance that you passed, but there is also a chance that you failed.

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