CRNE - experimental questions?

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Hey all!

I was browsing around different forums and found a few posts that said the CRNE had "experimental questions" and that these would be removed from the exam and your mark would be calculated without the aforementioned questions. I noticed that the posts were quite dated, but does anyone know if this still is the case? I recently took my CRNE and am awaiting the results :S :doh:

The use of experimental questions and taking them out could affect my end mark!! If anyone knows anything about it I would and is willing to shed some light I would greatly appreciate it!

Cheers :heartbeat

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Experimental questions are in the exam as they are in the NCLEX.

Moved to the Canadian forum where you will find many many threads discussing the CRNE

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Both CRNE and CPNRE contain experimental/trial questions in each writing. You don't know which questions are the trial and are never told.

I had it explained to me that it doesn't affect the overall final mark because they are culled before the final marking result is calculated. So if the exam had 267 questions and contained 7 trials, the 7 are just eliminated. They just want to see how well the questions were responded to.

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There are about 15-20 trial/pilot questions on each exam. Like Fiona59 said, they don't count towards your mark. I just wrote in on Wednesday, too, and I was pretty sure which ones were the trial ones because they had kinda strange wording (won't say any more here because of our oath haha).

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