Failed Nclex 1st try

You are not alone, many people fail the 1st time and still go on to become great nurses. Allow yourself a day to recoup, drink some wine, eat some chocolate, lick your wounds. Then regroup and get back on that horse!

@4mykids04 I know the feeling cause I myself did not pass the first time.... I cried ... I lost sleep and was depressed and guess what ? You have every right to feel that way !! But do not feel like it's the end of the world ... All you can do now is let outta your system and get back on track... It took me a week and a half and lots or wine to get over it :) u can do this .. My bf put it in a good perspective he reminded me that I got over the hardest part SCHOOL !! I don't need to worried about getting kick out and starting a program all over again... Just keep taking it over again till I pass ( hope this time around ) .... Keep your head up ... Re evaluate what didn't and what will work this time around ... Good luck with your studies ... U got this :)

Take some time off, relax, and when you are ready return with a vengeance. I have been out of school for a long time and I recently took NCLEX. When I studied the material it all felt new to me (much of it was). The following material took me from zero confidence to very confident in a few months (1-2 hours studying max per day as I have a full time business and I'm a father of four).

Hurst review (did it over and over and over again!) Made sure to memorize all labs

Kalpan Qbank (completed 90%)

La Charity PDA (took quizzes and reread rationales after)

EKG online study guide mentioned here on AN very often (forget the name of it but it's pretty basic)

35 page study guide floating around AN. The memorizing of the airborne, contact, and droplet precautions was VERY helpful.

Best of luck to you and don't forget the power of prayer! Have faith in yourself as you've made it this far for a reason.

-Robert

I am so sorry but it is ok to feel this way FOR NOW!! Go through your grieving process and then you pick it back up!!!!! God didn't bring you this far you will be successful just study differently this time go to a review are you strong on content? Do you know strategies figure out what is the problem and practice it and do lots of questions!

Have official results posted already? If this is based solely on the PVT, remember that it's not 100%. Don't beat yourself up, even if the official results do post that you didn't succeed this time. Give yourself some time to mourn, then pick yourself up and sort out what didn't work. Hopefully, there's no need! Good luck!

There are nurses that failed the NCLEX their first time for a lot of different reasons. The NCLEX is quite unlike any exam you've ever taken before, unless you've recently taken an NREMT exam or the NCLEX-PN exam. I know those exams are also adaptive in exactly the same way that the NCLEX-RN exam is. If you over think the exam, or get worried about your percentage right or wrong, you can doom yourself. The way this is set up, if your questions are all above passing, whether or not you get all of them right, you can still pass. This exam is designed to find the limits of your knowledge, and it will do exactly that. I recently took it and it was easily the hardest exam I've ever taken. I have no idea how many I got right or wrong, and it doesn't matter. What does is that I was above passing standard and stayed there.

How did I manage to pass? Simple. I took it one question at a time and didn't think about the one I just took, it's in the past. I let it go. I didn't think about the next one either because it didn't matter. Knowing how to take tests can help with some of the tough questions, but you just really have to carefully read the question and determine what the question is really asking you.

You will rise again! Remember, the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong but to those that ENDURES to the end.

Basing solely on PVT but i felt dumb in there. I was calm and theyre like im,sure youbdod great and im like umm no i didnt...i had a job offer im sure will be rescinded now

4mykids, what did you use to study? There are a lot of nurses here that can help you decide what to study next time if you did fail.

I used kaplan rn 2014-15 and kaplan on line. I could not attend the reviee course offered as my child was in the hospital. I studied every day i wokeup and went to bed doing them. Now i cant and wont look at anything and wont get out of my bed..."

What were your scores for the Kaplan Q-bank / Readiness?