by gwafuh_rn

Im here in u.s ang my girlfriend is in the philippines.My girlfriend took the local boards last june and she failed..She took again last dec and she failed.We don't know what went wrong..She attended the gapuz review before having her exam last dec,review at her house everyday and she also keeps on praying but in the end she failed.can anyone give me some tips so that i could share it with my girlfriend..Her 3rd take will be on june.I hope she will pass the local boards

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

Dont lose hope! My sister took her board 3 times. That was still the time when you failed the NLE 3x, you have to take a remedial. SHe never gave uP!

SHe might did her best, studied and prayed for it.... There's a reason for everything! You can't predict the board exam. Sometimes it seems easy but the fact, it really hard...

My neighbor failed NLE twice now... I can see he studied hard, his mother was really devoted and he had faith....

WAs her shading right? It must be not that light. Should touched the back of the questionnaire before passing it to the proctor. There are lots of factors that can fail someone.

TELL HER NOT TO GIVE UP!

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

I'm sorry to hear that. What I can suggest is, tell her to give herself a break say a week or two and then tell her to continue what she was doing, reviewing, praying. Tell her not to give up.

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

I suggest that she should take a break at least twice a week so that her mind and body would be relaxed and the shading too of the answer sheet may be the problem, she might overlooked the shading.... don't loose hope, she could do it!

Originally Posted by wenursetheworld

I suggest that she should take a break at least twice a week so that her mind and body would be relaxed and the shading too of the answer sheet may be the problem, she might overlooked the shading.... don't loose hope, she could do it!

yea agree with you , need to unwind sometimes, i do that 2x a month
when i review way back in 2004 for cgfns, i drink beer and hang out with my friends
during weeken, dont force yourself to study if your not in the mood, luckyly for me i passed on my 1st try, i review for 6 mos,. 1 month in review center then self study
just read books and q&a test,. good luck

just my 2 cents

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

I took the dec 2007 NLE and i failed too, i tried it coz i want to experience it 'though i dont need it anymore. the state ill be goin only requires nclex (yes, im an immigrant). I know how you feel coz my bf is really sad also when he heard the news, he dnt know how to react since he passed.. Tell your gf not to loose hope, try and try until she pass..the good thing with locals is its unlimited.. Goodluck!!

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

Originally Posted by kewl_nurse

I took the dec 2007 NLE and i failed too, i tried it coz i want to experience it 'though i dont need it anymore. the state ill be goin only requires nclex (yes, im an immigrant). I know how you feel coz my bf is really sad also when he heard the news, he dnt know how to react since he passed.. Tell your gf not to loose hope, try and try until she pass..the good thing with locals is its unlimited.. Goodluck!!

You are not completely correct on this. True, CA does not require the NLE be taken. However, if you did take it, it needs to be on the application and then they would expect to see proof that you passed that exam. And if you did not pass it, then there is where your problem is. Why would a state want to issue a license to someone that was unable to pass the local license where they are from? If you were on the other side, what would you be doing? You would expect them to pass their local license first, that is if they wrote it.

You still need to list on that application that you wrote the exam, and they have a list of all that have passed it. The PRC actually posts it and can be easily obtained by all BONs and it is.

This may be why you have not had any response to your application to them that you posted about on the other forum here. We have learned from experience here, that when there are delays, it means that there is an issue with the application. And this could be it exactly.

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

thanks for that suzanne, but I already send my requirements in CA before I finally decided to take the locals, its like 2 months after i send it..so what to do now?

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

Thanks for all of the advice.I hope that on her 3rd attempt this june,she'll be able to pass the exam...

Re: depressed.can anyone help me???

Originally Posted by kewl_nurse2b

thanks for that suzanne, but I already send my requirements in CA before I finally decided to take the locals, its like 2 months after i send it..so what to do now?

Anytime that you have changes made to your application, especially concerning an exam, then you need to write to them about it. But even more importantly, did you knew that you would be writing that exam before you submitted to the BRN in the first place. Am I not correct on this?

The NLE has a cut-off date to submit your documents to them. And the PRC publishes all types of lists with everyone's name on it. When reviewing your application, they check these lists. And that is why we have been hearing that they are actually going to start to require the NLE once again,, as when it was required for all that had to take the CGFNS exam in order to work in the US.

And you also need to inform them that you took the exam and did not pass it, withholding that information can cause you issues later on.