Back on Track with a PASS!

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Well some of you know about my failures in December with Chronicity and LS3. I took LS2 yesterday and passed. I had studied for a month on that thing. I have now taken all of the exams, but failed 2 so those are my remaining ones. I always tested at 2pm for each test but Pearson has been booked solid for some reason and the only times slots that was available in December was 10am slots, both exams I took at 10am, I failed. I switched testing center to one that has alot of 2pm slots, and guess what, I took it at 2pm and passed. So I am not back on track. I will never take another test before noon again. I've registered for my LS2 retake but I am waiting to schedule. I'm going to reread everything again and take it in 2 weeks (I have two weeks off of work thankfully.) I plan to follow with Chronicity last. I hope to have both completed by the end of March and be ready for FCCA. I'm behind in my plan, I wanted to be done by March but looks like I will be slightly delayed. As long as I finish my CPNE before my July renewal, I'll be happy.

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Specializes in LTC.

Congrat! Good luck on your re-take for LS3, hoping to test next month. So nervous about this one since i've read about so much students failing this one. Thought LS2 was the beast!

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where are you reading about lots of people failing it? ls2 and ls3 weren't any harder or easier than the rest. my problem with them was that sg101 sucked for them, but that just means I doubt (m)any people can get an A using sg101 for those tests.

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Specializes in MED SURG.
well some of you know about my failures in december with chronicity and ls3. I took ls2 yesterday and passed. I had studied for a month on that thing. I have now taken all of the exams, but failed 2 so those are my remaining ones. I always tested at 2pm for each test but pearson has been booked solid for some reason and the only times slots that was available in december was 10am slots, both exams i took at 10am, i failed. I switched testing center to one that has alot of 2pm slots, and guess what, i took it at 2pm and passed. So i am not back on track. I will never take another test before noon again. I've registered for my ls2 retake but i am waiting to schedule. I'm going to reread everything again and take it in 2 weeks (i have two weeks off of work thankfully.) i plan to follow with chronicity last. I hope to have both completed by the end of march and be ready for fcca. I'm behind in my plan, i wanted to be done by march but looks like i will be slightly delayed. As long as i finish my cpne before my july renewal, i'll be happy.

congratulations on your success!!!!

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Specializes in ICU.

Congrats. I too thought LS2 was a BEAST...only perhaps I HATE psych, and therefore try to learn the least about it that I can LOL. I'm also down to LS3 and will be done with the tests except FCCA and CPNE...i'm starting to hit the "omg helllp" mode haha. Good luck on the rest of your exams.

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.

Congrats Nervous1!!

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Specializes in peds-trach/vent.

. advising at excelsior told me that more people fail ls2 than any other exam.so congrats on passing. i thought ls3 was hard too, but some people say it wasnt. the practice exam will give you a good "feel" for whats expected.if you want to use that to prepare for your last two. good luck to you.:)

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Psych.

Glad to see you are back on track:yelclap:

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Specializes in Cardiac.

I had been using the practice exams all long but I think I was moving too fast for LS3 and Chronicity as far as taking the actual test. For the first time the other day, I only answered what I absolutely knew 100% in my first read thru the exam. I flagged the others and went back to them after the ones I knew. When I got done, I had 35 that I was unsure of or there was more than 1 answer and the questions were "not familiar". That gave me a good idea on how I would do. When I was done, I prayed that I passed but knew it was a long shot with so many of the left over questions being psych related. But I passed, thankfully!

When I took LS3, I thought I nailed it because so many came easily because they were "familiar". I think I was over confident and went too fast. This time around, I'm taking my time and skipping the ones I do not know 100% just like I did on LS2. If I can pass LS2, LS3 should be a no-brainer because its interesting compared to psych. Maybe I was just having a bad day the day I took LS3.

I am so ready to be done with these exams so I can move on from all these exams and focus on CPNE, after passing FCCA of course :o

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Congrats on passing! Take your CPNE in New York if you want a sooner date. I applied for midwest because it's closer anda cheaper travel, but a friend of mine applied to New York because she wanted to get done sooner and she got a date for 2 months after she applied mine was about 3.5 months, but I'm happy with my date because I can study at my own rate.

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Specializes in Home Health, Podiatry, Neurology, Case Mgmt.

congrats on passing! I failed LS3 twice! ugghh..that one i HATED..however LS2 breezed through but i LOVED psych...each person is different on that note, although i have seen more people post about failing those two than anything. it's A LOT more info i my opinion!

Anyway good luck and get er' done! =)

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