Did I pass NClex? I used PVT. Haaallllp!!!!

MidLifeRN2012 · Nov 1, 2015

God, what would you have done 15 or 20 years ago when test results came in the mail weeks after your test. Maybe 8 weeks or more ?

Fancypants09 · Nov 1, 2015

Have some patience, you'll know your results soon! I wrote in Canada, we don't have the "pay for your quick results" option and my friend had to wait a whole WEEK for her results from our regulatory body to mail it to her, she was afraid she failed, alas she passed.

You can wait a few days.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Nov 2, 2015

you passed. The higher you go the greater chance of failing.

On what do you base this statement? There is no such fact saying that the more questions you get, the greater your chances of failing. Why scare people unnecessarily?

I know people are going to say oh you can get all 265 and pass but the truth is after you pass the minimum it's because you weren't considered competent.

Again...this is scaring people for no reason. People most certainly DO pass at 265 questions, it's not some weird anomaly, or even unusual. COMMON to pass at that number.

People are deemed "competent" once they have met the 95% Confidence Interval prescribed for the exam. IOW, those who nail it and demonstrate that ability quickly can pass in the minimum. But someone who passes after another 10, 25, 100 questions is NO LESS COMPETENT than someone who passed in 75 questions. Good grief, we already have enough wars going on in which people who think that a second crack at the NCLEX indicates idiocy...do we really need to suggest that someone who passes in 80 questions is more competent than someone who passes in 90??

2015nurse1 · Nov 2, 2015

RNsRWE that's not what I was trying to say at all. There is only one reason the computer goes past the minimum amount of questions. This is a computer based test where the computer is deciding if your competent or not. I never said that passing at the minimum makes you more competent than a person that goes to 265. What I was saying is that with the additional questions the computer is still trying to determine if you should pass or not because you are below the computers passing level. If your below the passing level don't you have a greater chance of getting more questions wrong? And thus failing the exam? I do not believe this test assessed my knowledge and I do believe there is a better way to assess a nurses competency. I hear their changing the exam to have a skills portion next year. I do understand what your saying about scaring people about the higher amount of questions. When my exam went past the minimum I did have to take a few deep breaths lol.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Nov 3, 2015

What I was saying is that with the additional questions the computer is still trying to determine if you should pass or not because you are below the computers passing level. If your below the passing level don't you have a greater chance of getting more questions wrong? And thus failing the exam?

No. I am (extremely) well-versed in CAT systems and your assessment would be incorrect. A person who continues to receive questions is NOT "below the passing level"; more questions are asked because the candidate has been inconsistent regarding correctly answering questions above the passing level. IOW, someone who is close to the passing line (which can very well be above it as well as below it) but has not demonstrated to a 95% CERTAINTY that they are competent will continue to get questions until that confidence level is met. It does not mean they are consistently below passing; in fact, if they WERE consistently below passing....the exam would end, and they would fail.

Getting more questions doesn't mean you have a greater likelihood of failing; the statistics don't bear that out as truth. Every candidate gets approximately 50% of their answers wrong, whether they answered 80 or 180 questions. It's the level of difficulty of the question that determines whether getting any question wrong matters....at the passing level, you ARE expected to get about half of them wrong. CAT continues to adjust questions based on previous questions.

People will always have anxiety when their tests go higher and higher in number, that's human nature: everyone wants to be done, NOW! But if they keep a level head about themselves, it doesn't matter. People freak out far too often, and that's on THEM....not the test.

As for all the rest about "the test changing next year"....EVERY year people speculate, listen to rumors and gossip, and have yet to be proven right by any of it. Internet is full of nonsense about NCLEX that can be put to rest if people would only go to NCSBN.org to read for themselves what the facts are. It's actually a pretty good read, if you're interested.

I do not believe this test assessed my knowledge and I do believe there is a better way to assess a nurses competency. I hear their changing the exam to have a skills portion next year. I do understand what your saying about scaring people about the higher amount of questions. When my exam went past the minimum I did have to take a few deep breaths lol.

EstherðŸ˜† · Nov 5, 2015

I don't want to think about that ðŸ˜†...

those two days were the longest 48 hours of my life