Does the crying ever stop???

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:bluecry1:I took the test yesterday (NCLEX-RN) with 75 questions. I totally feel like I failed. I must have been in shock yesterday because I didn't cry at all... I just shook a lot. Today is a different story. I seriously can't stop crying. My eyes feel like they are swollen shut. I just need to know either way... This is total torture.

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FYI... I passed!!!! I can't believe it!:yeah:

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Wait... which one is the ugly blond skinny hooker? Isn't that all of them??? :saint:

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Specializes in Med Surg, Telemetry, Long Term Care.

congrats

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Wait... which one is the ugly blond skinny hooker? Isn't that all of them??? :saint:

The especially ugly blonde one who is still living with her boyfriend!:bugeyes:

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oh man :icon_hug::icon_hug::icon_hug::icon_hug: Just have faith. Hopefully you passed!!!

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I noticed you are new to the board.

Don't cry, at least not yet. One of the most common things that I read on this board is just about everyone that takes the NCLEX feels like they failed it.

Just because you THINK you failed it doesn't mean you did. I have seen tons of posts just like yours...only for them to post a few days later that they passed.

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:clpty::dancgrp:

FYI... I passed!!!! I can't believe it!:yeah:
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Guineachick & Krishara,

humm...well I never heard of anyone failing with only 75 questions. I have seen one person fail with 76 but not 75, I think mathmetically it is almost impossible to fail at 75 unless you get like 10% right which has to be some of the first ones wrong in order to get that because you will be that far below the line you have to get a bunch right to get above the pass/fail line... highly unlikely, plus there are 15 that dont count and are practice questions they may use on another test. Take a deep breath and relax. When I took it, I had 75 questions and thouht I knew most of them because they were easy questions, then while talking to others saying they had hard questions threw me off because I thought it was a simple test. I second guessed that I failed it even though I knew a lot of the answers. anyway, good luck and dont sweat it. There was a girl in my class who was the same way, called me crying and all i think she had 78 questions and she passed. If it does turn out that you did nto pass, then take a review course and try again in a few months. I think you will find a license posted for you though.

dont sweat the small stuff, its only a test.

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Guineachick & Krishara,

I think mathmetically it is almost impossible to fail at 75 unless you get like 10% right which has to be some of the first ones wrong in order to get that because you will be that far below the line you have to get a bunch right to get above the pass/fail line....

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Not mathmatically impossible at all. Plenty of people fail at 75 questions, and it doens't take getting only 10% right either. It takes the SAME as everyone else. EVERYONE gets 50% right and 50% wrong. It's all about where the 50% right are in relation to the passing standard.

At any rate, the OP stated a while ago that she passed.

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I disagree about the 50% right or wrong. You must have not read the other part of my message where I said I think I did very well on the NCLEX because I know (beyond a shadow of doubt) I had the correct answer for most of my questions. You start out on the "pass/fail" line, if you get one wrong you fall below the line, another one wrong you fall even lower below the line, now you need at least 2 correct in a row to make it back to the line and 3 to go above it. get one more wrong and your back to or below the line. It is NOT a matter of 50% right or wrong. So, theoretically if you had the first 5 questions wrong, you are pretty far below the line to recouperate because you have to get so many right in a row to get back to the passing line. On the other hand, if you get the first 5 right, then you are that far above the line so you can get a few wrong and not fall below the passing standard. So, ONLY if you are far enough above the line from the start, you can get a "50%" right/wrong because you are far enough above the passing standard already because you had the first few questions right. If you got the forst 10 wrong, then you have to get the next 20 right to get high enough "above the line" and stay there (by getting at least 50% right) to pass.That comes right from the lady who I took the review course from who talks to the people who write the NCLEX... AS for the 10% I was using that as a hyperbolie and not meant to be an exact %.

But it does not matter anyway and is trivial none the less, and like you said, she passed anyway,

I am just giving information to others as well who may read this and give insight to the testing process.

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I disagree about the 50% right or wrong. ..... It is NOT a matter of 50% right or wrong. .

Sorry, but it IS a matter of 50% right or 50% wrong. Like it or not, agree or not, it doesn't matter because that's just how the NCLEX rolls.

Start getting questions right, and the NCLEX gets harder UNTIL you get 50% wrong.

Start getting questions wrong, and the NCLEX gets easier UNTIL you get 50% right.

Where you are at when you reach the 50/50 mark is where the test decides if you are passing or failing.

And like I said before, plenty of people fail at 75.

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Just believe in yourself and keep a positive attitiude. When u think positives things they will come your way just remember that. You did your best so let that stress go and go take a nice hot relaxing bubblebath and light some candles while you indulge in chocolate as a reward for getting this far. good luck

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