depressed.can anyone help me???

lenjoy03, RN · Feb 22, 2008

Dont lose hope! My sister took her board 3 times. That was still the time when you failed the NLE 3x, you have to take a remedial. SHe never gave uP!

SHe might did her best, studied and prayed for it.... There's a reason for everything! You can't predict the board exam. Sometimes it seems easy but the fact, it really hard...

My neighbor failed NLE twice now... I can see he studied hard, his mother was really devoted and he had faith....

WAs her shading right? It must be not that light. Should touched the back of the questionnaire before passing it to the proctor. There are lots of factors that can fail someone.

TELL HER NOT TO GIVE UP!

Lorodz · Feb 22, 2008

I'm sorry to hear that. What I can suggest is, tell her to give herself a break say a week or two and then tell her to continue what she was doing, reviewing, praying. Tell her not to give up.

wenursetheworld · Feb 22, 2008

I suggest that she should take a break at least twice a week so that her mind and body would be relaxed and the shading too of the answer sheet may be the problem, she might overlooked the shading.... don't loose hope, she could do it! :)

boot_unit · Feb 24, 2008

I suggest that she should take a break at least twice a week so that her mind and body would be relaxed and the shading too of the answer sheet may be the problem, she might overlooked the shading.... don't loose hope, she could do it! :)

yea agree with you , need to unwind sometimes, i do that 2x a month

when i review way back in 2004 for cgfns, i drink beer and hang out with my friends

during weeken, dont force yourself to study if your not in the mood, luckyly for me i passed on my 1st try, i review for 6 mos,. 1 month in review center then self study

just read books and q&a test,. good luck

just my 2 cents:twocents:

kewl_nurse2b · Feb 24, 2008

I took the dec 2007 NLE and i failed too, i tried it coz i want to experience it 'though i dont need it anymore. the state ill be goin only requires nclex (yes, im an immigrant). I know how you feel coz my bf is really sad also when he heard the news, he dnt know how to react since he passed.. Tell your gf not to loose hope, try and try until she pass..the good thing with locals is its unlimited.. Goodluck!! :nurse:

suzanne4, RN · Feb 24, 2008

I took the dec 2007 NLE and i failed too, i tried it coz i want to experience it 'though i dont need it anymore. the state ill be goin only requires nclex (yes, im an immigrant). I know how you feel coz my bf is really sad also when he heard the news, he dnt know how to react since he passed.. Tell your gf not to loose hope, try and try until she pass..the good thing with locals is its unlimited.. Goodluck!!

You are not completely correct on this. True, CA does not require the NLE be taken. However, if you did take it, it needs to be on the application and then they would expect to see proof that you passed that exam. And if you did not pass it, then there is where your problem is. Why would a state want to issue a license to someone that was unable to pass the local license where they are from? If you were on the other side, what would you be doing? You would expect them to pass their local license first, that is if they wrote it.

You still need to list on that application that you wrote the exam, and they have a list of all that have passed it. The PRC actually posts it and can be easily obtained by all BONs and it is.

This may be why you have not had any response to your application to them that you posted about on the other forum here. We have learned from experience here, that when there are delays, it means that there is an issue with the application. And this could be it exactly.

kewl_nurse2b · Feb 24, 2008

thanks for that suzanne, but I already send my requirements in CA before I finally decided to take the locals, its like 2 months after i send it..so what to do now?

gwafuh_rn, BSN, RN · Feb 24, 2008

Thanks for all of the advice.I hope that on her 3rd attempt this june,she'll be able to pass the exam...

suzanne4, RN · Feb 24, 2008

thanks for that suzanne, but I already send my requirements in CA before I finally decided to take the locals, its like 2 months after i send it..so what to do now?

Anytime that you have changes made to your application, especially concerning an exam, then you need to write to them about it. But even more importantly, did you knew that you would be writing that exam before you submitted to the BRN in the first place. Am I not correct on this?

The NLE has a cut-off date to submit your documents to them. And the PRC publishes all types of lists with everyone's name on it. When reviewing your application, they check these lists. And that is why we have been hearing that they are actually going to start to require the NLE once again,, as when it was required for all that had to take the CGFNS exam in order to work in the US.

And you also need to inform them that you took the exam and did not pass it, withholding that information can cause you issues later on.

suzanne4, RN · Feb 24, 2008

Thanks for all of the advice.I hope that on her 3rd attempt this june,she'll be able to pass the exam...

I hope that she will be able to pass that exam as well.

Please keep us posted.

wishful_RN32 · Mar 28, 2008

When I took the exam, I tried to make the answer sheet as clean as possible, meaning, STRICTLY NO ERASURES, and all are shaded well. Sometimes, even if I would like to change answers, i never did. I just left it as it is, for fear that the computer might get confused and mark it as wrong. Also, good thing about the NLE is, you can eat while taking the test. I drank two bottles of C2 and ate candies during the exam which fueled me throughout. Sometimes, i could feel that my mind was starting to get fatigued from all the thinking, but i just kept going because my brain had food. She should refine her test taking skills. She should also try to eliminate her anxiety, due to her past experience, and think of this third exam as being her first. I hope she passes this time.