Failed the NCLEX... now what?!

I took my test a few days ago.

I stopped at 75 questions and felt pretty confident! After all -- stopping at 75 questions is either really good or really bad. And most who stop at 75 questions -- DO PASS.

And the sad thing is, I felt like I had done pretty well.

I got a lot of telemetry questions and 'select all that apply' questions, which seemed hard! So I thought, "Oh, I must be doing well because I keep getting these."

The test closed down and I was ecstatic that it ended so soon and presumably on a good note.

NOT.

I have always been a smart individual and I do NOT have test anxiety. I do so well on standardized tests and I had a good GPA from an outstanding nursing school.

On my Kaplan tests, I jumped around a bit - -but more or less hovered around the 60% margin. The last Kaplan predictor I took pegged me at 58.4%.

It's not that I didn't expect failing to be an option -- but I didn't expect to fail so miserably!

Failing at only 75 questions pretty much means that I was so far into a rut -- I couldn't get out. If I had lasted until 265, maybe I could have given myself some credit and said "Oh, I was close!".

But wow -- this failure has hit me really hard.

And I feel lost, because I am not sure how fix it.

I have Kaplan: the Basics and the Kaplan RN course book, as well as access to the trainers and qbanks on the Kaplan website.

My plan is to do a chapter of each book per day + 50 questions for the next 45 days until I can retake the test.

I feel like my head must be screwed on wrong.

My thinking process must be backwards -- and how can I change that!?

Any advice?

Right now I feel really disheartened and, well -- DUMB.

Most of all, I am disappointed in myself...

1) What should I do and how can I give myself a change next time around?

2) On a side note -- I keep googling "nclex CPR" to find out when it comes in the mail, and I can't find any information on WHEN it will be mailed to me. Does anyone know?!

Thank you!