Anyone have these feelings?!?!

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Is it normal to feel absolutely dejected after taking the NCLEX? I was holding my breath as I answered the 75th question and pressed the next button. It turned off!! I am feeling like I just wasted $200!! I have been a basket case since 0900 yesterday. I don't want to get my hopes up and think that I passed. Any advice to this stressed, freaked out, and now nearly bald and fingernail-less BSN?

Maybe if you don't have the official result by 5 pm...?

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Yes, that is COMPLETELY normal!!!

I took NCLEX on June 26. I walked in feeling confident, and walked out 90 questions later feeling awful!!!! So I did try the PVT, and got the "good pop-up." Less than two days later, my RN license posted on the CA BRN website!!!

I know it's HARD, but try to relax and just let it go. :-)

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Thank you all who replied! I PASSED!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!! Eric (Last Name), RN, BSN!!!!!!!!!

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CONGRATS, NURSE! :)

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Congratulations!!

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It is absolutely normal to walk out of there absolutely convinced you failed... regardless if you actually did or not. I took mine and was convinced I failed. I mean absolutely, positively, certain that I failed. Those thought you mention... well, I had all those same thoughts and more... such as "why didn't I study more?"

Luckily for me (and I'm sure countless other RN's) TX participates in the quick results, so it was a comparatively short (compared to the folks in states that don't participate, e.g. California) 48 hours.

I swear that there should be research into the affect the time period immediately post-NCLEX has on the incidence rate of gastrointestinal distress and ulcers in the RN candidate population... In all seriousness, you would think that with a computerized test, that the results could be tentatively provided to the tester with the stated stipulation that "results could change based on a review of the examination, but that the preliminary results are: [insert pass or fail]"...

Good luck and I hope you the best,

Don

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