Does anyone ever feel good about these tests???

Take some time to get your mind off of it. (easier said than done) You have prepared as much as you could. No one ever feels fully prepared. Go get drunk, see a movie, spend some time with freinds and family, or anything that will make you smile.

I know next week I'll be in the same boat you are. I will be worrying myself sick until I know if I passed or not. But I have already made plans to have lunch dates with friends, going to the pool, and I have saved some money here and there along with my graduation money to do some long deserved shopping. What I am saying is do something FUN!!!! Pamper yourself. You have worked hard for this test. now that's it's over, do someting crazy.

Then when the time comes and you find out your results, deal with it then. And if by chance you do fail, you are not the only one that has failed. You can take it again and pass.


But for now, have some fun.......

Just remeber to send this back to me next week, when I am feeling don no knowing if I passed or not!!!!!!! (june 27th is my test day)

Oh Geesh....I feel a little different only because I thought the first part of the exam was easy and thought that the answer to the question was staring at me in the face saying "Pick me, Pick me" then as I got towards the middle it seemed to get a littel harder and then some off the wall questions as if the computer was messing with me. I didn't even realize that the computer shut off on me, I thought the computer froze actually and could not believe I did 75 questions in only an hour. So THAT right there tells me I failed...I went too fast and maybe I was too confident.
By the way, plenty of people fail at 75...look at the other topic in this forum and some people fail at 265 or 110 or 160, etc.
This really stinks feeling this way and waiting and guessing and running things through your mind and trying to figure it out whether you passed or you failed!
But, hey it is just an exam and your board of nursing will look at it as your compentancy BUT you, your family, your friends and the people from this forum know you are already an RN and that right there should make you proud and a feeling of accomplishment. I with you on this...keep your head up.

Hey there,
Dont worry yourself too much. Easy for me to say cause i found out that i passed!!! You did what was possible. Now get some rest, eat well and get some fresh air. When you check your results it will say "Pass".

pray hard it works

Thank you SOOO much for the encouragement everyone!!! I just found out that I PASSED!!!!!!!

It just goes to show, you can feel confident on about 5 items, cry for two days because you're certain that you failed, but still pass!!!

Prayer really does wonders!!!!

Thanks again everyone!!!!! :roll

Originally Posted by may8523

I just took my NCLEX today. I got 99 questions and I feel 99% sure that I failed. I have read a lot of postings, so it was encouraging to see that sometimes your gut feeling can be wrong.

I am very frustrated because I did everything I thought was humanly possible to prepare. I attended a 4 week, 8 class Kaplan study course (in which I excelled during), I did over 1500 practice questions, I read an entire 600 page book full of information, and I tried to learn my medications and lab values, too!

I felt like none of my preparation mattered today. Every time a new question would appear I would feel completely confused. I would try to rationalize, but always found myself in the end saying, "I don't know" and choosing an answer.

Today I find myself in major need of encouragement from others who have gone through this before and maybe had a similar situation (& hopefully passed!!!)

I felt as though I was getting a ton of questions that should have been easy, but really threw me because they were topics I felt unfamiliar with. I should get my results by Saturday morning, and I'm really nervous because if I were to go solely on my gut instinct, I would be certain that I failed...

That is a HUGE amount of prep-work...I seriously doubt that you failed the exam.

Congratulations!

God is good, and his love endures forever!

YES I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!