Anyone else feel really horrible after taking NCLEX?

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I know I just posted about how I took NCLEX today, but hopefully writing will be therapeutic for me. I am just so scared I did poorly on this thing! I have such mixed feelings about 75 questions! I wish they weren't all so hard, so I can say I feel more confident about it. I feel like a balloon whose air was all let out... :o I want to be an RN so badly and feel I am a safe, knowledgeable person....so I hope the computer saw that today!!! I just want to get my license and start working!!! I don't know what to do with myself until I find out....and i'm also afraid to hear bad news! But I can't say in my heart that I think I failed cuz I think I'm pretty smart and definitely know enough of this material to pass, and have always tested very well...and I did stay pretty calm during the exam...and I did my very best on each question. I'm trying hard to convince myself I did fine. How did everyone else feel after theirs?

-Christine

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You did fine

The test keeps getting diffucult till you miss questions. It's trying to find your highest functional level. And also, it tends to pick on your weakness (if you tend to miss a certain type of question, and it wants to know your functional level, it will hone in on those questions).

So everybody feels like they failed it.

It's a stump the chump kind of test, and it will keep going till it finds out at what level you are a chump.

Don't lower expectations by telling everyone you failed - you passed, I'm sure

Relax. Can I give you a bright thought for the day?

FINALLY! You can read something for the pleasure of it.

Congrats, and just think, in a few short days, you'll be writing RN after your name.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Specializes in ACNP-BC.
You did fine

The test keeps getting diffucult till you miss questions. It's trying to find your highest functional level. And also, it tends to pick on your weakness (if you tend to miss a certain type of question, and it wants to know your functional level, it will hone in on those questions).

So everybody feels like they failed it.

It's a stump the chump kind of test, and it will keep going till it finds out at what level you are a chump.

Don't lower expectations by telling everyone you failed - you passed, I'm sure

Relax. Can I give you a bright thought for the day?

FINALLY! You can read something for the pleasure of it.

Congrats, and just think, in a few short days, you'll be writing RN after your name.

~faith,

Timothy.

Timothy, thank you for the positive thoughts. :)

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Hi Christine-

I took mine on Monday and also finished in 75 questions (most of which I felt were guesses). I left feeling the same way. I passed (I found out Wednesday). I think if it was hard and you finished in 75 that is a good sign. I'm sure you'll be fine. Good luck.

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am just so scared I did poorly on this thing! I have such mixed feelings about 75 questions! I wish they weren't all so hard, so I can say I feel more confident about it. I feel like a balloon whose air was all let out... But I can't say in my heart that I think I failed cuz I think I'm pretty smart and definitely know enough of this material to pass, and have always tested very well...and I did stay pretty calm during the exam...and I did my very best on each question. I'm trying hard to convince myself I did fine. How did everyone else feel after theirs?

-Christine

Christine,

I took mine this AM in Waltham and I stopped at 75 as well. I feel exactly the way you do! I went in confident of my ability, yet walked out completely dazed and feeling I must have failed.

Fingers crossed for both of us!

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I would say 99.9% of us feel bad after we take NCLEX.

Best of luck to you and keep in touch. :)

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I know I just posted about how I took NCLEX today, but hopefully writing will be therapeutic for me. I am just so scared I did poorly on this thing! I have such mixed feelings about 75 questions! I wish they weren't all so hard, so I can say I feel more confident about it. I feel like a balloon whose air was all let out... :o I want to be an RN so badly and feel I am a safe, knowledgeable person....so I hope the computer saw that today!!! I just want to get my license and start working!!! I don't know what to do with myself until I find out....and i'm also afraid to hear bad news! But I can't say in my heart that I think I failed cuz I think I'm pretty smart and definitely know enough of this material to pass, and have always tested very well...and I did stay pretty calm during the exam...and I did my very best on each question. I'm trying hard to convince myself I did fine. How did everyone else feel after theirs?

-Christine

Remember what I told you before. This exam is unlike any that you have ever taken before. Every nurse gets 50% correct and 50% incorrect. That is how the exam is set up. If the questions were at a harder level, that means that you were getting them right on a higher level, as well. :)

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Remember what I told you before. This exam is unlike any that you have ever taken before. Every nurse gets 50% correct and 50% incorrect. That is how the exam is set up. If the questions were at a harder level, that means that you were getting them right on a higher level, as well. :)

I'm always happy when you write posts, because they ALWAYS make me feel so much better! :) Thank you! I told my nursing school professor how hard I thought it was and how it shut off at 75 and she thought they were good signs too. I'll keep you posted! :)

-Christine

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Christine,

I took mine this AM in Waltham and I stopped at 75 as well. I feel exactly the way you do! I went in confident of my ability, yet walked out completely dazed and feeling I must have failed.

Fingers crossed for both of us!

Hi Judith! You took it in Waltham today? How funny! I took it in Worcester! We're neighbors. So you thought it was hard too? I couldn't believe how crazy hard the questions were! It was mostly prioritizing! I couldn't even really use ABCs or Maslow for any of them either! :uhoh3: Did you get a lot of prioritization too? And I get a bunch of crazy meds on it that I've never even heard of! Wow! I've got my fingers crossed for us too! :)

-Christine

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Hi Suzzanne,

Are u saying the one must get at least %50 of the questions right...say you got a 75 question exam you's have to get at least 37 righ to pass?

~sp

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Actually thirty. :) Fifteen are freebies, that they are testing. Every nurse gets 50% correct and 50% incorrect, it depends on the level that you are getting the quesitons answered correctly. :)

If your nursing instructor was to go in today and take the exam, he/she would also get 50% correct and 50% incorrect. Samething if I took it today also.

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Hi Judith! You took it in Waltham today? How funny! I took it in Worcester! We're neighbors. So you thought it was hard too? I couldn't believe how crazy hard the questions were! It was mostly prioritizing! I couldn't even really use ABCs or Maslow for any of them either! :uhoh3: Did you get a lot of prioritization too? And I get a bunch of crazy meds on it that I've never even heard of! Wow! I've got my fingers crossed for us too! :)

-Christine

If you had priority-type questions, you were using ABCs. That is how you determine who you are going to see first or what you are going to do first.

Did you have any questions on disaster planning or triage on your exam? How about herbal medicines?

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