Failed NCLEX 11 times.

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Hi all.

Just want to share my experince. I graduated in 2011 and have taken NCLEX for 11 times since then and still failed. I've tried Saunders, hogan, and also took Kaplan course but still failed. I feel like a failure. This is all I want to do is to become a nurse that's why I keep trying. I want to retake it again but then this time application process required school transcript and the school want me to take another Kaplan course. I'm devastated. I can't afford the money for another course and the exam. I don't know what to do. I got all the resources from books to cd from previous courses. I'm tired of lying to people that I work in the hospital and feel ashamed of myself of where I am today. Still struggling to pass the NCLEX.

What's Mark section if you don't mind me asking, thank you.

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I failed many many times on nclex exam and believe me it's not a happy feeling especially when your annoying co-worker asks you about unpleasant topic like "so, did you take your nclex yet?" "when are you going to take your nclex?" etc...etc... this is one most ****** feelings ever in addition to whiping peoples ass and taking orders from lazy and arogant nurses. But I have managed my time wisely by letting go of what matters less and pursue the important ones. See bellow and I hope you will find the following methods I use in order to passed the nclex exam the 8 times around!!

follow these procedures:

1. Quite your current job (if you have the luxury) if not, you won't passed the test. trust me. Even if you go back to nursing school.

2. Isolate yourself from all distructions

3. Obtain Exam Cram 5th Edition & Saunders Comprehensive 6th Edition.

4. If you have a GF or BF tell a side story that you going to be very busy with work when you are not. Study inside your car. Change a sceneray if you are tired of studying in same location.

5. Read the entire Exam Cram book and visualize every situations during your reading. The goal here is to familiarize the diseases, diagnosis, symptoms, side effects, interventions, outcomes and a few nursing stuff.... believe me, if you read the entire exam cram, your brain will developed a bunch of wired of wired of nursing informations starting from the head of a sick patient all the way down to his/her diabetic and nasty toes.

6. Use the Saunders NCLEX questions. Answer all of it as many as your brain can handle. Continue Visualizing the head-to-toe of a sick patient with body parts in it and diseases in it. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat until you see every person you meet in public has diseases and know you can taking care of them.

7. Use the NCLEX Mastery Apps. You need this when you are on the go.

8. Continue answering the Saunders Online Nclex Questions...

9. Do not answer nclex questions the day of the exam. But I highly suggest that you continue reading the exam cram!! Only!! even the day before the test. But avoid reading the saunders book because its a different format.

let me know if you ever need a kaplan video

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designbygeek said:
I failed many many times on nclex exam and believe me it's not a happy feeling especially when your annoying co-worker asks you about unpleasant topic like "so, did you take your nclex yet?" "when are you going to take your nclex?" etc...etc... this is one most ****** feelings ever in addition to whiping peoples *** and taking orders from lazy and arogant nurses.

I cringed when I read this. The part about you taking the NCLEX 8 times, fine, although my personal take is that's a bit excessive. The part I bolded, though, was just so mean-spirited. So are you now one of the "lazy and arrogant" (spelling corrected) nurses? Do you consider "wiping people's asses" (spelling corrected) beneath your new nurse designation? Or do you recognize that caring for the whole person IS the nurse's job?

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I think at this point you may need to go back to school or at least take a refresher course.

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First off I would like to comment on the original post of 11th time nclex RN taker and 13th taker on to the 14th and my opinion to you is NEVER GIVE UP!! You will pass it eventually! The issue I have with these boards is that there will always be someone with a strong opinion such as the LVN who states that if she were to take the RN boards 3 times and fail, that she would give up. Her advice to yoi was to either choose a different career path or go back to school again for something you already did and passed.

I am true testament to "NEVER GIVE UP!" I myself graduated from nursing school from a pretty good school with a great reputation and high RN first taker pass rate above 90%. I graduated in 2012 and on my 10th try just recently passed the boards on AuG 1, 2017! I am now currently working at a nursing rehabilitation unit. I was able to find a job within 3 days of passing!

so my advice is that if u truly know that you are made to be an RN, never give up! You only fail when you stop trying!

PS: to all the haters, I am darn good nurse now according to all my patients and fellow coworkers! Taking a test and failing it multiple times doesn't mean you won't make a great nurse when you eventually pass!

keep your heads up high and you will get there!!

Jason BSN R.N.

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Congratulations! It is great to hear success stories such as yours...

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jaystyle80 said:
First off I would like to comment on the original post of 11th time nclex RN taker and 13th taker on to the 14th and my opinion to you is NEVER GIVE UP!! You will pass it eventually! The issue I have with these boards is that there will always be someone with a strong opinion such as the LVN who states that if she were to take the RN boards 3 times and fail, that she would give up. Her advice to yoi was to either choose a different career path or go back to school again for something you already did and passed.

I am true testament to "NEVER GIVE UP!" I myself graduated from nursing school from a pretty good school with a great reputation and high RN first taker pass rate above 90%. I graduated in 2012 and on my 10th try just recently passed the boards on AuG 1, 2017! I am now currently working at a nursing rehabilitation unit. I was able to find a job within 3 days of passing!

so my advice is that if u truly know that you are made to be an RN, never give up! You only fail when you stop trying!

PS: to all the haters, I am darn good nurse now according to all my patients and fellow coworkers! Taking a test and failing it multiple times doesn't mean you won't make a great nurse when you eventually pass!

keep your heads up high and you will get there!!

Jason BSN R.N.

Congrats on passing this exam at last and getting a job within days of passing. My question is what did you do differently this time that you think helped you to pass. What materials helped you the most and

and is there any that you thought is close to the nclex. Any input will be appreciated.

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8th try.... i even slept in nclex questions the moment im in bed and woken up to more randome questions. Each questions ive gone through i visualize them its between a patient and conditions. I did this since 2013. 2013 was very fuzzy visualization and i couldnt figure out what it is. But i continued to do that u til my brain has accustomed to visualizations on every diagnosis. Now i had realized that nclex are only repetitive but n different format of questions and scnarios. 8x failed but i did not given up. Finally passed the nclex april 17 2017...keep reading. And visualize it 3x and more until you get what it is ask you what to do

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jaystyle80 said:

PS: to all the haters, I am darn good nurse now according to all my patients and fellow coworkers! Taking a test and failing it multiple times doesn't mean you won't make a great nurse when you eventually pass!

Disagreeing with you does not equal being a "hater". It just means we disagree with you.

But evidently, you are really special if you can pass the NCLEX on August 1 2017, get a job three days later and in less than three weeks, be a "darn good nurse." I would expect that you would still be learning the job, that you'd be a newbie still, with lots to learn. "Satisfactory in Progress" would be how I'd phrase it.

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Hello Jaystyle80,

I appreciate your post, especially because this forum is to give advice to help someone , rather than to tear them down even more. Being a repeat test taker you already feel bad enough after trying so hard, I have learned some people are good test takers and some are not which doesn't mean you didn't put forth the same efforts as those who passed the first time around. This test isn't easy and for those who don't pass, keep the faith and keep trying as you stated "don't give up" because if it's GOD's will this too shall pass and you will make it. I applaud you for your honesty and encouragement!

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Ruby Vee said:
Disagreeing with you does not equal being a "hater". It just means we disagree with you.

But evidently, you are really special if you can pass the NCLEX on August 1 2017, get a job three days later and in less than three weeks, be a "darn good nurse." I would expect that you would still be learning the job, that you'd be a newbie still, with lots to learn. "Satisfactory in Progress" would be how I'd phrase it.

I raised my eyebrows at "darn good nurse" too after three weeks, and presumably out of school for quite some time because of all the NCLEX attempts. The scariest new grads I've ever precepted or worked with had more confidence than skills and more pride in their abilities than actual abilities.

Something to mull over, I think.

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sianee said:
somepeople are lucky than others. Somepeople have to struggle to achieve something and some people are lucky or born bright

Sianee, you are right. Learning comes easier to some people then it does to others. There's no shame in that. But just taking the test over and over and over again and hoping to pass is not an appropriate way to deal with that reality.

If you need extra time to absorb the information, then you should take that extra time. Go back to school or engage in some sort of structured refresher course. Start at the fundamentals and figure out your weak spots.

It might not be fair that some people are born into a lot of money, or with extra smarts, or whatever. But being a nurse means you could seriously hurt or even kill something with a mistake or lapse in judgment. I know you want to be a good nurse, and your first responsibility is to your patients. So you need to make sure you have the fundamentals down rock solid. It's not enough for you to just get lucky and finally pass the test.

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