Am feeling so sad. I failed my exam 2nd time.

mentalhealthnurse32 · Feb 19, 2012

Please don't get down on yourself. I found what helped me the most was doing a review course. You may know the information, but if you don't know how to answer the question then this can be a problem. Also, I would answer from 10-20 questions each and every day on a cd that I had that came with one of my books, and it was so helpful. Not only would you get the answer for the question, but it would also give you the rationale. I would suggest you take a review course or find a good nclex book to study from with a cd full of questions. Goodluck to you.

Ashcutek · Feb 19, 2012

Thank u everyone. I really appreciate it. May god fulfill all your wishes.

46oldnewrn · Feb 19, 2012

Do not feel bad, I failed the exam twice myself. I was devastated, humiliated, embarrassed ect...... I put my big girl panties on and studied the cd from saunders and did all of the 4000 questions, and then a few other cd's. I quit studying out of the book just did the questions and I finally passed my third time with 85 questions. I can't even count how many books I read over and over and over again. I am a visual learner and I swear that is what helped me, especially if you got the question wrong on the cd, and they gave you the rationale, that is what really helped me. A lot of the nclex questions were very very similar to the ones from saunders cd. But you have to do all of the questions, at least twice. Hope this helps.

Ashcutek · Feb 20, 2012

I read the whole book but now going to do hurst review and the saunders cd. Thank u for ur support.

diana2520 · Feb 21, 2012

Dear friend, I'm so sorry to hear that... ( Can I join the study group with you guys? I also study at night usually -)

thinking about you today, how did it go....Hope all went well. Best wishes

Imeanreally · Feb 21, 2012

I failed my first time.. at first I was so mad and wanted to take it again as soon as possible.. but i decided to wait, and not study or worry about it for 2 weeks. I can finally think about it without feeling upset or mad at myself so I figure its time to jump back on the horse. I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet or not, but there is a study guide floating around on here that I think is just awesome. As I review it I google anything I'm not sure of. I feel like reading content books aren't the way to go, thats what nursing school was for. Review labs and such, but there is just wayyyyy to much info out there. The Saunders book is over 1200 pages, you can't get all that info in your head. I think the study guides are great because they cover the big stuff and everything else you will learn from doing tons of questions.. I'm starting with 25-50 a day and adding 25 a day as the weeks go by. the week before the test I should be around 150 a day.

Kmillerjr07 · Feb 21, 2012

Hey, i've been reading the Nclex forum for the past 3 weeks freaking out about the exam! I took mine today, computer shut off at 75 questions, and I got the good pop up on the pearsonvue site.

Let me tell you, I studied NO CONTENT whatsoever. I did Kaplan questions and that was it. i did question trainers 1-5 and 7 (skipped 6) I did a total of about 300 of the Qbank questions.

From my experience, content is not what you need for this exam, you can memorize the books inside and out and still fail it! i want to estimate that about half of the questions i had NO CLUE what the heck the topic was and thought I was screwed. I used the kaplan decision tree and it worked wonders! I strongly believe that this by itself will give you an excellent chance at passing! forget the thousands of review books out there... don't waste your money.. .DO KAPLAN QUESTIONS!

good luck!