Failed NCLEX at 75 questions :(

Columnist · Apr 10, 2015

Hello and welcome to the site. I moved your thread to the NCLEX Discussion forum so you might get more responses.

Qteapi · Apr 10, 2015

How long does your state require u to wait between test? How long did u study for your first attempt? What were your areas of weakness according to your report? Look at those things and then decide how much time you need.....just don't wait too long!

letmebeanurseee · Apr 12, 2015

I only had 5 SATAs (I don't know how people who took the NCLEX got SO many!) and passed with 75 Questions! Do NOT let the amount of SATAs defer you or the type of question. Just answer each question individually! Higher level question come in so many ways! Don't me wrong, I thought I had failed miserably because I barely got SATAs like I said and I thought NCLEX was just too easy (SAY WHAT?! It was probably because Kaplan was tough)! I loved Hurst for content. I reviewed it to the point that when I was reviewing, I was listing S&S just by looking at a disease. I used Saunders Comprehensive Review to reintegrate that information. I also utilized Kaplan by using the QBank and QTrainers and Example Tests which I LOVED. DO ALL OF THEM AND READ EVERY RATIONALE but don't just memorize! Think about the answer and WHY. If you do get the whole Kaplan system, be sure to look at the Review of Question videos! The woman goes through each question and explains why that answer is the best answer using critical thinking and you also learn content too. Also what I thought helped for me cause all I could think was NCLEX is constantly doing questions and relating everything to NCLEX aha. Like if I saw my dad eating a banana I would be like, "that has potassium as well as potatoes, cherries, and etc. and you want to eat these type of foods if you are hypokalemic and the S&S of hypokalemia are this while the S&S of hyperkalemia is this!" I really think that helped my brain in thinking. I was also watching television shows like Untold Storiesof the ER to stay on that healthcare wavelength if I was taking a break or rest day :up: I literally did over 5000+ questions before even taking the exam as well, prayed EVERY DAY and literally ever minute, hour, and second, posted motivational quotes on my wall and kept them on my phone to read, changed my background to that picture of PASS from Pearson Vue, and posted my name with RN everywhere in my room, on my ceiling once I woke up, and even in my bathroom so that again, my focus was NCLEX and RN. I truly believe in the power of if you keep asking for it and believing in it, it WILL happen!

Sorry for the long post! I hope it helps though! Good luck! Keep me updated [:

forevertravelin · Apr 13, 2015

Hi!

I recently passed my NCLEX RN.

PLEASE DO NOT LOSE HOPE. And if you think all of your studying did not work, try mental conditioning. There is a mantra that I always repeat to myself when I want good things to continually happen: "The world gives what your mind had conceived." Your thoughts have a big factor on your performance. I know it is hard as hell to be confident when you had failed, but you have to pick yourself up. If you step in the arena thinking that you have lost the fight even before it started, don't go on because you will surely lose. What I'm saying is that, you have to maintain a positive outlook.

There is a BE, DO, BECOME principle.

1. BE: In the exam, THINK like a nurse. In every choice, ask yourself "Is this how a nurse will act?" "Am I having a nurse's mentality with this choice?"

2. DO: You will be able to select the right choices like an RN.

3. BECOME: After this, becoming an RN will only be a formality.

To be honest, I wasn't thinking straight during my exam. I think it was pure optimism that brought me the title "RN".

I have posted an article with the materials I have used.

GOOD LUCK, future RN. I don't know you but, I believe that you can. Claim the title!

Love,

ME:up: