CRNE October 2010

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Hello every1,

I am going to take CRNE in October 2010. I need your tips and suggestions. I am registered with CARNA (Alberta board of Nursing) but going to take my exam in Toronto. I guess CRNE is standardized exam and is same all over Canada. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thank you

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
however, somewhere i read that experimental questions do not count for marks. Marks are given depending on the difficulty of the questions. If a question is just knowledge, it might 1 point; if a question is critical thinking, it might be 1.5 point...

Sample questions are not marked. Multiple choice questions are not weighted. There is only one correct response and thus only one mark. The weighting is only applied to short-answer questions, which are scored on a 0-3 point scale. Please read: FAQ - The Canadian Registered Nurse Examination (CRNE)

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Specializes in geriatrics.

yes i have read that...

i just want to point out, the whole format was changed thus June, it was completely MC, no short answers. Thus, the marking system changed too.

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Specializes in geriatrics.

in addition, sample questions are sample questions. experimental questions are experimental questions, they were both on the exam.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Sample questions and experimental questions are the same thing. And the exam format was changed back to all multiple choice for the June 2009 exam after a short-answer cheating incident on the February exam. What has changed for this June is the number of questions and the amount of time for completion.

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Specializes in geriatrics.

ic, thank you for clarifying ....rumors all over the place

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WanYeso, your friend's math is correct... IF all 208 questions were counted. 121/208 = 58.17%.

There are always sample questions, it's how CNA prepares different versions of the exam. They use the data from candidate responses to the sample questions to determine how appropriately they're worded and how well they capture knowledge.

Standard passing scores range from 59% to 68% depending on the difficulty of the exam.

:crying2: This information scares me 68% is too much for me .........eish 59% will be ok for us this time around. Keeping our fingers crossed for the best. GOOD LUCK TO ALL.:yeah:

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aren't sample question pre-determined and not dependent on how many people answered correctly/incorrectly??

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Oh wow i just calculated...it was indeed out of 191...i have no idea why people kept saying 200. That means it was really 63% as pass...which scares me even more now because i felt the oct exam was a bit better (higher pass mark)...or is it cz i wrote it for the second time???? But if there was a 42% fail...shudnt pass mark be much lower...?? Its nearly half!

After realizing this...my anxiety have increased dramatically, im probably not gonna be able to sleep...and will have a HR of 200 when walking towards my mailbox next week...

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2010 June CRNE fail rate is 42%, which means out of 100 students, 42 failed, 58 passed.

I'm really curious to know where you are getting that number from? A 42% fail rate seems pretty high, especially when compared to the most current data from CNO to compare against:

In 2009, the pass rate for Canadian-educated first-time CRNE writers was 90%, whereas internationally educated first-time CRNE writers had a pass rate of 70%. (from http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/documents/pdf/publications/CRNE_Bulletin_April_2010_e.pdf)

Given that info, it seems rather hard to believe that there would be such a huge jump in the amount of people failing (even with the changes made to the exam).

Data about CRNE can be found when it is available here - Canadian Nurses Association - CRNE Bulletins

It's so stressful waiting for those exam results! I'm not sure which is worst: waiting for that envelope, or opening it!! Try not to worry too much about numbers, and pass rates. Good luck to all of you.

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I have given the CRNE in Toronto on October 6th 2010. I have a question

The total question is 200 with 20 experimental questions. If the passmark is 60%

Then is the pass mark 60% of 200 or 60% of 180?

Could anyone answer please? and by when the results be out to us. Best of luck everyone....:)

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

I strongly doubt that the failure rate of the June exam was 42%. The CNA hasn't released the stats on that exam, but for all three sittings in 2009, the failure rate was only slightly more than half that, 23.8%. Since the exam isn't graded on a bell curve, it is possible for the failure rate to be 42%, but it's very unlikely.

I have given the CRNE in Toronto on October 6th 2010. I have a question

The total question is 200 with 20 experimental questions. If the passmark is 60%

Then is the pass mark 60% of 200 or 60% of 180?

Could anyone answer please? and by when the results be out to us. Best of luck everyone....:)

Wow, have you read the rest of the thread? The experimental questions don't count toward the total score. The exam will have approximately 200 questions, and up to about 10% will be experimental questions. The pass mark will be a percentage of the actual questions, around 180 or so. And the results take between 4 and 8 weeks, depending on the time of year, with Febrauary being the quickest and June the slowest. The first batch of results should be mailed out sometime next week. When you get yours will depend on where you live and Canada Post delivery times.

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I strongly doubt that the failure rate of the June exam was 42%. The CNA hasn't released the stats on that exam, but for all three sittings in 2009, the failure rate was only slightly more than half that, 23.8%. Since the exam isn't graded on a bell curve, it is possible for the failure rate to be 42%, but it's very unlikely.

Wow, have you read the rest of the thread? The experimental questions don't count toward the total score. The exam will have approximately 200 questions, and up to about 10% will be experimental questions. The pass mark will be a percentage of the actual questions, around 180 or so. And the results take between 4 and 8 weeks, depending on the time of year, with Febrauary being the quickest and June the slowest. The first batch of results should be mailed out sometime next week. When you get yours will depend on where you live and Canada Post delivery times.

Wow! this is getting even more scary than i had imagined. If they have upto 20 experimental questions the obviously the exam will be on 180. I can't believe this. So what if all the 20 are the ones you have right, then you are screwed. I think i will faint once i see any envelop from CNO next week. I'm soooooo scared. LORD HELP US!!!! I pray we all make it. Good luck to everyone.

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