Took NCLEX today and it shut off at 130

Hi everyone,

This is my 2nd attempt at taking the NCLEX.

The first time, I barely studied. I touched a little bit of Kaplan and Uworld but didn't study as much as I should have. I didn't review any content and honestly, I just didn't try. People were saying the NCLEX was easy and I thought I could be one of those people that can pass on the first try with my fresh-out-of-school nursing knowledge. I was SO WRONG.

For 1.5 months I studied every single day doing 75 questions from Uworld completing the whole program for 1 month, doing Nurselabs.com NCLEX questions, NCSBN questions and content review from Kaplan book & ATI comprehensive review book. I studied super hard and every day I studied 4-6 hours. The last 2 weeks before my exam, I studied almost 10+ hours every other day making sure I reviewed everything.

Took the NCLEX today feeling nervous but knowing I studied really hard and hopefully my efforts would shine. As I went through the NCLEX I got maybe 8-10 SATA (some easy and some hard), a bunch of EKG strips, mental health questions, pharm questions, some peds/OB, and towards the end, a bunch of priority and delegation questions. I felt that there was not more of one subject on my exam. It was definitely all comprehensive. I was hoping to take the test all the way to 265 because other friends of mine did U-WORLD and they all took the exam to 265 questions and passed. I thought that may be me too. So when it shut off around 130+ I basically turned white.

I walked out of the exam feeling very in-between. I wasn't 100% confident but I also don't feel terrible about it. Honestly, if I failed... I would kind of be really surprised. I put in a lot of hard work this time around. If I really was not answering correctly, I would have gotten more questions, right?

I took the California NCLEX-RN exam so there are no quick results here. I'm not a fan of the Pearson Vue trick considering it took my friend's money too when she tried to find out if she passed or not.

I know the rumors that the number of questions don't matter. I have a classmate that failed at 110 and another one that failed at 175 on their first try. I don't know exactly how I feel about the exam. There were for sure a handful of questions I feel that I did get correct. Im really good at delegation and priority questions so I feel like I got that on lock.

Anybody have a similar experience and passed?