This is just my experience, I really feel the need to share and I know it's pretty lengthy. I truly appreciate anyone who reads and responds. I tried my best to keep it interesting for anyone willing to read, sorry.
I graduated from my ADN program just this past May. My school worked with ATI through the entire program and at the end of our program we had to take an ATI predictor that would give us its prediction on how we would do on NCLEX. It was a 175 question test and I ended up getting a 71% which translated into a 91% passer chance on first attempt. Even though I was predicted high to pass I still felt that I should take a course to help better prepare myself up until the test date. So I purchased the ATI online NCLEX review course. I followed the study plan well, I didn't even work from the time I graduated until test date. The way ATI works is that they will give you another predictor exam and depending on how you do they will give you the "green light" to take boards which is active for 2 weeks. If you fail to take the exam within' those 2 weeks then you need to retake it. I ended up with a 65%, which translated into 90% passing chance on NCLEX first attempt (I know, a significant drop from the first time I took and only a 1% prediction difference). For practice, my online instructor gave me an additional two predictors for more exposure, which I got 64% twice on those then and again translated to 90%. I felt pretty confident having being told on 4 separate occasions I would pass NCLEX.
The day before the test my mind started to race and I would think of every question I've ever missed and trying to recall the rationales. I scheduled my test for 8 a.m. in the morning (my nursing program was evenings), which is not when I'm used to taking tests. I had a breakfast pre-made and was ready to go. I laid down at about 11 p.m. the night before and literally tossed and turned the entire night and probably got about 1-2 hours of sleep. Oddly enough, my nerves have yet to kick in. Was surprisingly calm for what is going to be the biggest test of my life. I could contribute my lack of sleep to the reason I felt this way, but, that would be me just making excuses.
Upon arrival of the test taking center, still not feeling nervous. I took a break at question 50, I didn't want to exhaust myself because I can get flustered from tedious questions back to back. This may have been a mistake because I wasn't bored, I just went in with the mind set to pace myself. Slow and steady wins the race, right? Well, on my break I thought to myself, "This doesn't seem to be very difficult, or at least, the questions aren't hard enough to where I don't think I'm making good educated guesses". Scratch that, I have a surgical procedure next week to remove my foot from my mouth. The questions just kept coming one after another. I took the scheduled break and as I was getting up from my cubicle I noticed I was the last of all of the students who were testing that still had to finish. Hello nerves, I was wondering where you have been all morning. This is when I started thinking, this cannot be happening to me. I ended up going all the way to question 265 before NCLEX shut off.
Once I got home, I struggled back and forth on whether I should try the pearson vue trick or not. I wanted to know to if I passed, but, at the same time I didn't want to see the credit card information. Well, I tried the trick and go, there was the credit card information. Let the 5 stages of the grieving process begin. Like many who fail, I'm sure they are in denial as I was. "There's no way this pearson vue trick can be right all the time, SOMEONE has to have had the bad pop up and passed on this forum", is what my mindset was. Couldn't find a single person. My family, bless their hearts, still continued to hold on to hope. This Friday, I paid for the quick results and sure enough as soon as the loading screen finished, "Fail" was there to greet me.
I am in the anger phase currently. I don't understand how I could get through nursing school, take 4 different predictor tests that all say I have a 90% or better passing rate of boards and still not pass.. not to mention the countless assessments to give me even MORE exposure. I feel like my family is judging me without them even having to say a word. It's impossible to not feel like a failure. After speaking with my online instructor, I'm paraphrasing here, she hasn't heard of anyone who has passed NCLEX if they missed question 265 and essentially that one question determined whether I passed or failed. If that's true or not, that would have been something pretty important to know going into this. Sure that's on me, not doing the research to find out how every little step of NCLEX works.
So here I stand, having to wait 45 extremely long days until I can even pick a time to sit and try again. I wouldn't be so angry if I could just take the test again next week or even two weeks, but the length between attempts is what is killing me most. I have to go to bed every night and wake up the next morning knowing that I couldn't deliver on the most important test of my life. I'm going to keep working with ATI until my next test date. I understand going into NCLEX with confidence is important for passing but at this moment I have none.
Just for anyone curious, I know I am going out of sequence at this point. My test was made up of a lot of prioritization questions, SATA questions, and drugs I never heard of. When I see SATA, doubt creeps into my mind before I even read the question.
That's my story, now my question to the people of this forum is: How likely is it for someone to pass the second attempt at NCLEX when failing at 265 questions? I know there isn't any set in stone statistics, but just from everyone's experience from reading around on these forums over their time here.
I am sorry to hear you did not pass, but don't give up. I did not fail my nclex but I thought I was. I started out confident knowing the computer will cut of on 75. I was cruising through the whole test and when I look there was question #82,83, 84 etc. I said:" what is going on". So it prompt me to take a break. I member in the Kaplan it says if it tells you to take break,take a break, so I did. I went in the restroom and prayed and I gave my self a pep talk. I said what am I doing wrong? I told my self I need to stop cruising because there is no way I could be getting these answered wrong. I felt maybe the test feel I am taking to long with my answer's. So I had 2 hours and 29mins left. And was on question #111. I went back and started speeding up. I looked it cut off on quequestion 170 in 45 min. I went home did Pearson cue trick with a big clump in my throat. I got the good pop up. So I guess its not only how many questions you got right it's about how long it took you to answer the question.? I am only assuming. Keep your had up and look at the link that's on here it is called SPIDER IT HELPS WITH DATA QUESTION it helped me.
what does SPIDER IT HELPS WITH DATA QUESTION it helped me
I am sorry to hear that you did not pass. Get all your emotions out as soon as possible and get back on your feet when you are ready. Exercise to get the DABDA emotions out of your system ---I just went through depression for 3 days and cried my heart out and got back on my feet.
I have failed the NCLEX the first time with 95 questions and so did two other of my classmates and they had 265 questions.
Find out what works FOR YOU. Both of my classmates A & B and I did not like to read so we did questions endlessly like we treated NCLEX like a job. Whenever we got two hours to spare we did two hours of questions.
If you believe in a higher power. Talk to that person/thing etc.
Bryan's post helped me through the second time around
ATI should not cost you anything since it was affiliated with your school. Ask your nursing director if you could attend the next ATI LIVE . I got the ATI LIVE and Virtual ATI for free.
Classmate A passed with 190 questions
Classmate B passed with 150 questions
I passed with 75 questions.
IF we failed first time and passed and conquer the beast the second time. SO CAN YOU! DO NOT give up and be positive, active, and motivated. Pair up with a friend to keep you accountable.
ATI's pretests in many cases are full of incorrect and outdated information. Their post-graduation 3 day NCLEX review is a dog & pony show. I relied solely on that review and the material provided to take my NCLEX and I failed. ATI is a tool used by schools to maintain their accreditation and nothing more. ATI is about making money and I have even had a professor of mine admit to me that she was fairly sure that nurses were not making up the content on the ATI tests. I have taken 100's of snapshots of ATI questions with snipping tool (found in windows 7) and shared them with nurses who flat out say they are wrong! For instance, ATI believes that nurses are the ones who ensure a patient understands a surgical procedure they have upcoming when in fact that is the physicians responsibility. ATI also does not know the difference between side effects and adverse side effects. ATI believes that nurses are responsible for helping victims of physical abuse develop escape plans the next time they are abused. Of course, ALL of these are WRONG. All their NCLEX review did for me was have me study materials I wasn't even tested on when I took my NCLEX. ATI is a complete waste of time and effort. I graduated an accredited university with a Bachelors in Nursing with a 3.25gpa and failed the NCLEX because I relied on ATI to provide a quality review and used their materials to study. What I got turned out to be a bad joke and now a horrible situation. There's a reason ATI doesn't want anyone copying their questions on tests. There's a reason ATI reps won't speak directly to students. There's a reason you can never get a nurse on the line to speak to at ATI. They are trying to cover up the fact that they are in the business of making money, not educating students.
tamara1971
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SPIDER IT HELPS WITH DATA QUESTION
where is this link?:?:?