Did I pass the NCLEX?

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I took the NCLEX exam today and it was terrible. Everytime I would read a question I would think, that is a no brainer, this is what needs to happen. Without fail, the answer I wanted was never there :scrying: . It was terrible. I graduated with 4.0 and I don't think I passed it. There were many things on there I've never even heard of. I know they are looking for a basic level of competency but what is that level? I didn't get any "basic" questions, I felt like they were all hard but the same hard. I didn't feel like they fluctuated in difficulty like I expected them to. I had 75 questions, do you think that is a good thing or that I just failed really badly. So worried. Please somebody help!!!!!!! :scrying:

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I have to love the Az State Board of Nursing - my lisence number came through in less than 24 hours after the test! OK, I want to give you others hope that only had 75 questions. I have read so many posts on a search about people getting 75 questions that never said if they passed or not!

I passed, I passed :wink2: :wink2: :wink2: :wink2: :wink2: :wink2:

Best of luck to you other two that took the NCLEX on the same day - though you probably don't need luck because you passed too on intelligence and knowledge :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

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congratulations on passing. Hopefully in 24 hours, I will be able to say the same thing. What a cruel thing it is to have to sit here and wait. What is a Hesi? I've heard a lot of people talking about them and I assume it is something similar to the ATI exit program that we used in KY.

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congratulations on passing. Hopefully in 24 hours, I will be able to say the same thing. What a cruel thing it is to have to sit here and wait. What is a Hesi? I've heard a lot of people talking about them and I assume it is something similar to the ATI exit program that we used in KY.

I am pulling for you for good results! HESI is an NCLEX simulation test - it stands for Health Education Systems Inc. That is the manufacter of the test. Alot of colleges use it for exit criteria to pass the RN program. My program just used it as a self education tool - passing it was not mandatory to graduate. They made a point of telling us NOT to study for it so we could correctly assess our weak spots. The HESI was tough, but I had a better feeling after taking the HESI than taking the NCLEX. It was probably because there are a LOT of questions on the HESI and only 75 on the NCLEX.

After the NCLEX I was very dissapointed it shut off at 75. I felt I didn't have a chance to prove my knowledge and the questions were so danged funky. Extremely funky questions :madface:

Best of luck, be sure to post when you pass ;)

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Congratulations....................

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From what I understand how CAT testing works is that they do not fluctuate between hard and easy. They first start out with a question that is mid-range, and depending on how you answer the question, the questions get harder (if you keep getting them right) or easier (if you've gotten them wrong).

If you didn't see that many easy questions, and they started to pertain to subjects you've never heard of, that's a good sign. Also, if you got a lot of priority questions, that's the higher level questions, which is good.

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I heard that if you got the cutoff at 75 then its more than likely you passed. That there are not many people that fail at 75.

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I hope that you all are right. I can't hardly handle this anymore. I keep trying to reason with myself that surely I didn't fail in just 75 questions, but I was very discouraged when I didn't know the answer to the first question. It was a drug I've never heard of. I had to guess. It was just not a good feeling. I guess you are so prepared when you take a test over content material because you know the material. Having to be blind-sided is enough to make anyone unnerved. I can't even remember some of the questions to look up the answer to them. I can't stand this!!!!!!! Hopefully my results will be ready tomorrow. I don't know if I'll have the nerve to open them.

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I found out today that I passed!!! Yeah!!! I also was not sure about the first question, but I guess I pulled through!

Just some side notes about my test: either I studied very broadly, or I just did not have a test with bizarre questions. I think there were a few question roots(or whatever they are called) that had something I didn't know what it was, but I had lots of answer choices that I didn't know what they were. However, I was able to weed out the weird answers on lots of questions (not to say that will hold true for everyone).

Good Luck!! I am sure you passed!

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I found out today that I passed!!! Yeah!!! I also was not sure about the first question, but I guess I pulled through!

Yippee Two down, one to go

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From what I understand how CAT testing works is that they do not fluctuate between hard and easy. They first start out with a question that is mid-range, and depending on how you answer the question, the questions get harder (if you keep getting them right) or easier (if you've gotten them wrong).

If you didn't see that many easy questions, and they started to pertain to subjects you've never heard of, that's a good sign. Also, if you got a lot of priority questions, that's the higher level questions, which is good.

Just some of my own conclusions on the CAT testing. I passed in the minimum number of question on the LPN and the RN. The LPN test was much as you described. Medium to hard, I could tell the "hardness" was adjusted up as I took it. MOST of the questions were priority on the LPN. No math on either the LPN or RN.

The RN was a different animal for me. I would say I was VERY CONFIDENT in only about 5 answers out of 75 questions! Most of my questions were about the pathophysiology of obscure diseases, pharmacological side effects that are not common knowledge, no delegation questions, no math, AND I had NO priority questions until about question 45. The first question was hard, whereas question 75 seemed easy.

I had a VERY BAD feeling when I was to question 35 and I had not had one priority or delegation question. I knew these were high priorty questions going into it and felt I was flunking the test since I did not have a priority question yet.

My conclusion is that MATH questions must be VERY LOW LEVEL questions. I think maybe too much emphasis is put on the the priority and delegation questions being a true indicator of how you are doing on the test. I started sweating bullets when I didn't have ANY of those questions by #35.

Also, I had WAY MORE than my fair share of the "pick all that apply" questions. I did not count them, but I wouldn't be suprised if I had as many as 10 of them on the RN test. I think these are also high level questions.

Nobody has mentioned this - so I will throw this in. There are two additional special format questions now. It used to be "pick all that apply" and "click the screen" were the only alternate formats. Now they have put these things in order (and there are 8 items or steps to put in order) by dragging things to one column to another column AND some sort of question where the screen is divided into 4 sections and you have to click the section of the screen where I guess graph material is presented. I did not have any of the two new kind of questions.

Just my CAT testing 2 cents for those who might find it useful :)

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congratulations on passing. Hopefully in 24 hours, I will be able to say the same thing. What a cruel thing it is to have to sit here and wait. What is a Hesi? I've heard a lot of people talking about them and I assume it is something similar to the ATI exit program that we used in KY.

OK, I am holding my breathe for you. Let us know when you hear so we can celebrate! :coollook:

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I took the test on 1/4, had 75 questions and I found out today that I passed. The NCLEX was certainly tough!!

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