Without talking about specific material from the exam of course, discuss how you found the exam? Difficulty level? Did the CPNRE prep manual/predictor test compare to the exam itself?
Also, feel free to post results here, when they arrive of course!
This is also the first writing of the "new" CPNRE. Prior to yesterdays writing, the exam was 8 hours long, divided into 2 booklets, rather than 4 hours and 1 booklet. As far as the content and difficulty level of this exam compared to those prior, I'm not sure if that changed as well.
I personally found the exam to be a bit more difficult than the practice exam in the CPNRE prep guide, as well as the online predictor test. I scored %95-%100 on the predictor tests, which means it concluded I have a 95-100 % chance of passing the CPNRE. I found the answers in the prep guide and the predictor test to be fairly obvious, where as on the actual CPNRE, I read a lot of questions, thought I knew the answer before looking at the available choices, but once seeing the options I wasn't so sure anymore.
Through my PN course I averaged a mixture of high 70s and low 80s during finals but I must say, I have no idea how I did on this exam. It's really one of those exams where I either did extremely well, or failed miserably. At least that's how it feels!
I wish everyone the best of luck and I hope we all get that PASS letter in the mail!
I used Prep Guide (3rd edition, 4th edition), and predictor tests. I read those two Prep Guide books several times, especially rationale part. Also our school recommended us to use Saunders Comprehensive Review book(NCLEX-PN Examination), actually I only read a little bit about it, cause it's the book from States, quite different from what I learned before.
It took about 2 or 3 week after I applied to have it done. They told me that they would only be hand scoring after November 24th, but i got the results from it well before then. Hope this helps. If you can spare the extra 56 dollars for one question, then it might be a good idea.
Congratulations to all who passed! Such a stressful time behind you :)....I too am hoping for good news soon, doesn't look like it will be today though :/
Hi Everyone! Got my envelope today and had to get my husband to open it and read it over the phone while I was at work because I don't think I could have opened it myself! But, thank God, I passed!!! Thanks to everyone on this site...you all really gave me hope during this way-too-long wait!
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Thanks lindsay22.. Do you still remember how long you've waited for the hand scoring result?