Published Jul 10, 2018
Esnooopy, BSN, MSN, DNP, RN, NP
69 Posts
Hi - maybe this is a long shot but I am looking for the real deal on this and maybe someone on here will have experience..... I am going to be taking my FNP AANP exam in the times square location this week. I see in the email it says that there will be no lockers provided and you are strongly advised to leave all personal belongings "at home or in the trunk of your car." This seems like odd advice for a location in times square- I don't live right there and I don't drive a car (and if I did I would not spend the morning of my exam trying to find parking in times square!). I don't really understand how following these instructions would be possible unless I bring someone with me to hold my belongings. I'm sort of assuming people just leave their stuff outside the test room and hope for the best?
While I'm at it let me know if you have any last minute tips! Exam is Thursday 7/12 - 48 hours from the time I'm writing this post (!!!!)
For posterity, in case anyone comes looking to this post for answers, I'll update with "the real deal." They DID indeed have lockers. They had me show two ID's and held on to one of them. They had me empty out my "phone wallet," turn off my phone and hand it over (I volunteered my ipad and did the same). Then they showed me the lockers. I asked if I could leave my water bottle and inhaler outside the locker and she said I could bring them into the test room with me. I also was wearing a cardigan and a necklace, neither of which raised any issue (I've read about issues with jewelry and layers of clothes). One last warning, I couldn't get the water to work in their bathroom sink so leave yourself some purell out as well! o.O
Oh - and the test was much harder than I was expecting - started out a little hard, then the beginning-middle had a lot of hard questions and I was starting to feel pretty awful, but then for the end part it was much better. In the end I went back and looked over all my questions and kept track and figured out that I was very confident about half of the questions, so I hoped that was good enough. And it was, I got my preliminary PASS. Huzzah!