Had no faith in passing NCLEX, but did

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I spent many of nights after registering for my NCLEX, reading post on this website. Some gave me hope but some made me extremely nervous. I never took a Kaplan or hurst review course because I just couldn't afford it. I graduated nursing school on December 18, 2015 and took NCLEX December 29, 2015. Literally only 11 days after graduation and I was scared ********. I did really awesome in nursing school and made honors but that didn't really seem to matter when it came to NCLEX. I actually only registered 3 days before I took it. I had three days to study and let me tell you what I did: questions. Everyday I did about 300-400 questions. There are free ones all over the Internet and our school made us do ATI. When I had a question over something I didn't know I wrote it down, then looked it up. Made sense of stuff (patho, s/s, etc). So when I actually took my test I got to questions 75 and clicked next and it continued. My heart dropped and then I kept going. I eventually got to 150 and it shut off. Convinced I failed, I left and set in the parking lot and cried. I later went home and did the PVT and of course I got a bad pop up (it's not reliable anymore). I cried for two days until I got the quick results and I passed. Literally cried again for the whole day. TIP: when you go passed 75, keep your head up and thank the computer for giving you a second chance. Don't give up!

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Great job!

I test Jan. 8th.

Thing is, I have so many resources available, I definitely won't be able to utilize everything. So, I'm wondering: how do you feel about ATI? Was it comparable? Do you think it helped you?

Thanks, and congrats, again. Big accomplishment. I feel, and I'm sure most feel, life is in limbo until we see "PASSED"

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I thought ati was the closest thing to it. Like format wise (SATA, fill in the blank,etc)

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Specializes in Neuro/NSGY, critical care, med/stroke/tele.

Congrats!!!

Also how on EARTH did you get your ATT so quickly.!? haha... finished Dec 16 and still waiting, can't even see available dates yet!

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Congratulations! I have read that ATI questions are much easier than the NCLEX questions. Did you find that to be true?

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Our school sent them out the next day after graduation

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I found ati and nclex to be equal. One wasn't harder or easier

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