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Okay...so here it goes...This is my second time taking the NCLEX RN. I took the test yesterday at 330pm and after 4 hours and 200 questions later my computer shut off. I was a mess...I kept getting repeat questions about community health nurse education as well as a TON of SATA. I also got a lot of "follow up" questions. I didn't feel good about it before, during, or after taking it. The first time i finished in a little over 100 questions and failed. This time it was double that and i am a complete frantic wreck.

I tried the "PVT" when i got home and several times after that. I have read so many back and forth forums about the PVT. Some say you have to use all correct info on your cc and others say you can change the exp date. People swear by both tricks. I however did the one with changing the exp date. Every time i got the "declined" message. Is there still some hope that i passed? ALSO yesterday after my test was complete i raised my hand and was escorted to the front to sign out and do my palm scan the lady was left scratching her head bc it would not let her sign me out because my results were already sent out and the computer signed me out of their system itself. Has anyone ever heard of that? Immediately i was like that is a bad sign I must have really bombed the test. I just don't know what to do anymore. I have studied my ass off and used several different resources. Any advise on all of this would be helpful.

Taking my nclex in a few hours. I'm a ball of nerves at the moment but trying to keep my faith and stay positive. I am praying for all of you. God bless you all! #RN2018

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Well my BON is good at keeping its application status updated. After searching for my name in the license look up section and looking to see if my quick results were ready i got to thinking that i should look at my application status.

7/2 UNSUCCESSFUL letter sent.

so i did in fact fail. I knew it.

I guess the pvt is in fact accurate.

I feel so defeated and just completely heart broken. I dont know where to turn. I dont know what more i can possibly do. My testing anxiety completely takes over my soul when I am taking the nclex.

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Good luck on your test! I hope that you knock it out of the park.

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I'm sorry to hear that :/ Don't be discouraged. You're still going to be an amazing nurse! You've seen how the test is, and now you can go back in and kick it's butt! You've got this. Just keep your head up

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I have to say though I am extremely disappointed in this website. I have come here through the years during my nursing school journey, my first NCLEX, and have lived here since my second one and see so many forums with lots of ppl commenting. Here we are 200 views later and only 2 people have reached out. I never had the courage or was so vulnerable to put myself out there and to finally work up the courage to do so and 2 people care enough to respond. I have been inspired and comforted by so many of these threads that I thought me being at my lowest right now I could use some advice and insight from other people seeing as I literally don't have any support system but 2 people who have continuously heard me sound like a recording. But eehh what's some more disappointment at this moment.

So sorry to hear that you did not pass. However, you may not realize that there are hundreds and hundreds of threads about the PVT. So many that people who responded before have nothing more to add and it gets old repeating the same thing over and over. Frankly, I wish that Pearson Vue would just close the loop somehow and make the PVT go away. It would be better for everybody.

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Well my BON is good at keeping its application status updated. After searching for my name in the license look up section and looking to see if my quick results were ready i got to thinking that i should look at my application status.

7/2 UNSUCCESSFUL letter sent.

so i did in fact fail. I knew it.

I guess the pvt is in fact accurate.

I feel so defeated and just completely heart broken. I dont know where to turn. I dont know what more i can possibly do. My testing anxiety completely takes over my soul when I am taking the nclex.

Hi, I am so sorry to hear this, it has happened to so many of which they later passed. It is not the end of your life, it is so devastating but you only need to pick yourself up, take a look at your performance when you get you official result, it will show you exactly how you performed. I am yet to writ for the first time, am preparing now but when i read some posts here, i get discouraged as well as encouraged at the same time. Some people may view but wouldn't responde because some are also devasted in their own situation or because there has been thoudsands of post about PVT on this website. Do not feel bad if your post do not get much response. You might need to try UWORLD, OR NCLEX mastery, kaplan, Saunders, Mary Ann Hogan or NCSBN Learning extension. I have seen people swear by them. For me I am hoping for the best in the exam. I think the problem like you said you got community health questions, sometimes it could be areas that the candidate didn't prepare very well. This nclex is unpredictable. Some people will get more Leardership questions and others maternity, one may never know what will be there until you start you start your exam. Also check if you are a visual learner like myself, you may need to get Memory notebook of nursing Vol 1 & 2 or Pimonic. I am using them right now, it helps to retain information. I wish you all the best, but keep fit and encouraged knowing that you will surely pass. Getting depressed will not be helpful rather harmful. This site has been very helpful to many of us and we should be there for one another. Goodluck.

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As far as people looking and not commenting, I think there's not much people can say/advise when you're waiting except good luck. Now that you know you failed, which I'm sorry to hear btw, you may hopefully get some sage advice. Here is my 2 cents. I took a more unconventional approach being cheap in that I didn't use any nclex program prior to taking it and I passed 1st time at 75 questions so it can be done on the cheap. Go to the library and get all the nclex review books you can. I got about 6, find all the free nclex website q banks you can find and try to find a study buddy if possible. Next you need to eat sleep and breath nclex questions (I did it for 3 months). I can't tell you how many questions I did but answering nlex questions became my full time job, total submersion. Eventually you start to think like the nclex bc you've done so many. May sound extreme but I'm telling you what worked for me. Finally DO NOT get anxious when taking the test. I got a sata at question 2 and just started to freak out. I literally stopped what I was doing and told myself I couldn't be nervous bc it was self defeating. I read each question, picked my answer and then reviewed the other possibilities and figured out why I didn't pick it and then went to the next one. No room for nerves when taking the nclex. Hope this helps!

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I have to say though I am extremely disappointed in this website. I have come here through the years during my nursing school journey, my first NCLEX, and have lived here since my second one and see so many forums with lots of ppl commenting. Here we are 200 views later and only 2 people have reached out. I never had the courage or was so vulnerable to put myself out there and to finally work up the courage to do so and 2 people care enough to respond. I have been inspired and comforted by so many of these threads that I thought me being at my lowest right now I could use some advice and insight from other people seeing as I literally don't have any support system but 2 people who have continuously heard me sound like a recording. But eehh what's some more disappointment at this moment.

i understand that. i feel like on other forums the community is stronger. i am having the same problem with my post. i thought i would get a ton of comments and it would make me feel better but here i am checking and checking and i have views but hardly any responses. all is well though i suppose.

I think this community is VERY strong. Everyone is always so willing to help and offer advice and guidance and help with assignments. Of course, when it comes to assignments, they also want to know that the OP is making an effort to do it themselves, and just need a little guidance. But, this is not about an assignment, it's about support. I think, as another poster said I believe, that the reason you might have not gotten the support you might have wanted, is the title of your post "Bad popup 2018 need advise!!" That makes it sound like its just about the PVT, and I, like many others have completely had it with posts about the PVT. I mean, use the search button people!! There's MILLIONS of them!! But, you're post isn't really about the PVT. It is just about needing support while you waited for your results. So, I am so sorry you didn't get the support you were looking for! It is so stressful waiting for your results, and as nurses, we all know that feeling. So, they are always more than willing to look on the NCLEX forums, and see posts that are in need of support - with titles like "Pass or Fail?," "Feeling defeated...," "Just took the NCLEX," etc. But, unfortunately, with the hundreds of millions of posts that are constantly on here about the PVT, anything about bad popup, good popup, or PVT, you probably aren't going to get the support you're looking for. There's just a constant bombard of people asking if the PVT really works, if the good popup means they passed, if the bad popup means they failed. It gets kind of to the point where you just skip over those posts.

Again, I am so sorry you didn't get the support you needed during your stressful time of waiting for your results. I am even sorrier you didn't pass! I know you probably feel completely defeated and wonder how you will gather up yourself to do it all over again, but you can do it! You graduated nursing school - you know the information. You can do it! As another poster said, just answer as many questions as you possibly can each and every day. Make sure to look for the keywords in each question. Make sure to read EVERY rationale, whether you got the question right or wrong. Even if you got the question right, reading the rationale helps because it might give you some information you didn't know, maybe you answered the question right but for the wrong reason, etc. When I took the NCLEX, I was soooo scared because an instructor told me that the way the test works is that it gives you questions, and when you get it right, it gives you another one of the same type but harder, you get that right, it gives you another one of that type but the next level up from before. If you get one wrong, it gives you another one of that type later on. She told us that it keeps giving you questions related to what you've been getting wrong. So, I was like, well jeeze, that's why you always hear people say, "Maternity was my worst subject but for some reason that's what my whole NCLEX seemed to be about," "Peds was my worst subject, and I ended up with a ton of peds questions." So, when I studied, I took a comprehensive test first, then found my weakest areas, and worked on those until I answered questions in those areas about the same as I answered them in my stronger areas. I don't know if that's really how the test works. I do know that it goes up in level each time you get one right and drops down a level each time you get one wrong. I just don't know about it giving you questions in areas you keep getting wrong. I never researched that. But, I made sure I was ready just in case! The best thing to do is just answer questions - answer millions of them! Read the rationales for them all, read the test-taking strategies for them too. I used Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX and I loved it. It had great rationales and it included test-taking strategies after the rationale. Describing how you should look at the question and going about answering it. It was really helpful!!

Good luck!

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So sorry, I feel how it feel. I'm also through the same thing. You can do it, you are strong.

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Sorry you did not pass, next time here is what I did and it maybe helpful

I really did not review too much because I took the test right after I graduated I think it was 2 weeks later so all was fresh in my mind.

I would study practice questions and If you remember the community health questions I would focus on why I think I got the question wrong.

I can only imagine how hard you have tried and scared you are of trying again but you must.

At this point I would take a Kaplan refresher course and attend one of their NCLEX courses right before you are going to take the test say within the week.

When you look at the question read it without looking at the possible answers if you can, place your hand over the possible answers before you look. Ask yourself what is this question asking, read the question over again. After you read the question over again then look at the answers.

A great many people do not pass because they anticipate the answer and do not really read the question.

If you have really bad test anxiety I suggest you take this test pen and paper if they allow this to accommodate your disability it may help you.

Good luck to you

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Incredibly sorry you did not pass! It's terrifying, frustrating and annoying all at once. I took mine yesterday and have no idea what is to come. I can tell you no matter the advice, or amount of well wishes you were to receive would've eased your mind - until you saw the final result. Granted, I'm much like you and need to talk these things out. Have you looked into UWorld or Mark Klemik (sp?)? I found them both to be immensely helpful in understanding the test. UWorld has fantastic rationales and while you may start out with low scores, you really see them rise in time. Look into it, give yourself time to really work the resource and it should help. Your text anxiety could be hurting you, next time just try to remind yourself that you've prepared yourself. You know the info - you wouldn't have made it though nursing school if that were the case! You have the tools and you can totally do this!

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I'm so sorry to hear that you did not pass. I took mine today and I also don't feel as if I passed. I try to remember what one of my instructors said, "it's not the end of the world. Life goes on, there are many excellent RNs that have had to repeat a course or take nclex more than once." You hang in there girl take some breaths and go for it again. You've got NCLEX, NCLEX doesn't have you. Xoxo.

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