Has Anyone Ever Challenged The Results Of Their Nclex Exam Results?

Published

The Reason Why I Ask Is, Nothing In This World Man-made Is 100%. Everything Has A Flaw. You Always Hear About How Precise The Scoring Of The Nclex Exam Is And How It Determines Your Pass/fail Result With 95% Certainty. Are There People Who Really Felt As If They Passed And Wanted To Review Or Have Someone Review Their Results? If Reviewed, Was It Discovered That Indeed They Should Have Passed? Why Is It That The Diagnostic Profile Is So Vague? It Only Tells You The Area Of Deficiency. What Bothers Me About That Is Given What The Question May Be, You Get It Wrong, But If You Answered Another Question Or Have Taken Practice Questions That Relate To That Same Category Of Questions And You Have Been Successful In That Area, Does That Mean You Are Really Deficient. The Dagnostic Profile Should Be More Specific Of What Your Weakness Really Is On The Exam. It's Not As If They Are Giving You The Question You In Which It Pertains To. Anyway, That's Something I Have Always Wondered. I'm Also Bored At Work. I Work Nightshift And It's Kind Of Slow.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Can't really speak to the accuracy of grading or the process for challenging results, but just wanted to suggest that you post this in the NCLEX Forum.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Challenging the NCLEX - is that even a possibility?? I'm just curious. Most retake it if they fail and hope to pass the second time.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

i was curious about that too but at this point i just want to pass the 2nd time around

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Did the job hop, now in MS. Not Bad!!!!!.

Ask yourself if this is a battle you really want to take on at this stressful time. Wouldn't your energy be better spent studying for next time? The red tape and process of going through the bureaucracy could take a very very long time. AS a separate example, I had to get special accommodations as a disabled person for testing, which meant calling the board and getting special paperwork mailed (not emailed, not faxed...) to fill out, return for processing and verification and approval...

Long story short: It never arrived. I waited almost 1 1/2 months, made multiple calls, and they even had record of my calls and swore the paperwork would get sent. Meanwhile I still studied and took my chances at going the process without the accommodations.

It worked. I passed w/ 76 questions on my first try. My dad used to say (actually still does) Is this the hill you want to die on? In other words, There are far bigger battles to be fought.

Good Luck in your decision and we are here for you.

:nurse:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Ask yourself if this is a battle you really want to take on at this stressful time. Wouldn't your energy be better spent studying for next time? The red tape and process of going through the bureaucracy could take a very very long time. AS a separate example, I had to get special accommodations as a disabled person for testing, which meant calling the board and getting special paperwork mailed (not emailed, not faxed...) to fill out, return for processing and verification and approval...

Long story short: It never arrived. I waited almost 1 1/2 months, made multiple calls, and they even had record of my calls and swore the paperwork would get sent. Meanwhile I still studied and took my chances at going the process without the accommodations.

It worked. I passed w/ 76 questions on my first try. My dad used to say (actually still does) Is this the hill you want to die on? In other words, There are far bigger battles to be fought.

Good Luck in your decision and we are here for you.

:nurse:

chloe....i presume your dad was an infantryman?

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Did the job hop, now in MS. Not Bad!!!!!.
chloe....i presume your dad was an infantryman?

LOL. NO, actually my dad is a retired optometrist. Rec'd the NYSOA Optometrist of the Year award in 2003. I'm very proud of him, and he of me. He's also a retired scout master for BSA and did time in the Air Force long before I was ever a glimmer in his or mom's eyes.

He's well read and educated across the board however.

:nurse:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Tele.

you can challenge your test results thru pearsonvue. you just have to pay for it

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Ask yourself if this is a battle you really want to take on at this stressful time. Wouldn't your energy be better spent studying for next time? The red tape and process of going through the bureaucracy could take a very very long time. AS a separate example, I had to get special accommodations as a disabled person for testing, which meant calling the board and getting special paperwork mailed (not emailed, not faxed...) to fill out, return for processing and verification and approval...

Long story short: It never arrived. I waited almost 1 1/2 months, made multiple calls, and they even had record of my calls and swore the paperwork would get sent. Meanwhile I still studied and took my chances at going the process without the accommodations.

It worked. I passed w/ 76 questions on my first try. My dad used to say (actually still does) Is this the hill you want to die on? In other words, There are far bigger battles to be fought.

Good Luck in your decision and we are here for you.

:nurse:

Why did you let them get by with that? It is only when we stand up to bungling bureaucrats that we make them toe the mark. We have to toe their mark - why do they get to not have to follow the rules? I'm glad you passed the test but you just let them run roughshod over you.

This sort of thing happened once when I was trying to renew my RN license. It took nine months. And then I got it only because I made long distance calls and finally got a supervisor who decided to help me. I notified my senator, who took my side. Then the bureaucrat in charge blamed it on me for allegedly not notifying them that I'd moved. That was not at all the issue. I had taken the initiative to renew without the renewal notice. I didn't wait for their notice, which never came. The issue was the doofus punks who were employed there decicing to punish me for some reason I have never figured out, possibly for sending my payment and renewal info via registered mail. Or maybe they were just too damned disorganized and lazy to do my renewal. I really don't know.

I know we can't fight every battle but sometimes we do have to stand up for what we know is right, Chloe.

But apparently you did not really need the special accommodations anyway and maybe that is why you decided to lay down on this?

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I'm sure you can challenge it.

Why do you capitalize every word? Very hard to read.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Yes, I must say that capitalizing each word makes it VERY difficult to read. No insult intended, but, it is very distracting.

I heard of people challenging the exam before it was computerized (my sister in law did with the same results-she failed and had to take it again). Now, I don't hear of such.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Challenging the exam is different from what the original poster is asking here. You cannot challenge the RN exam any longer, and the PN exam can only be challenged if the person was a medical corpsman in the military, and that is only for CA and VA.

What the op is asking about is if you can question your results. That is going to be hard to do, reason being is that everyone gets 50% correct and 50% incorrect. They are interested in the level that you are answering questions correctly at and nothing more. The level of difficulty is the important thing here.

Questions are given out by the computer based on how you answered the previous question; no two exams are alike, each is individual to you based on the answers again. And it will focus on your weaknesses.

You want to see priority questions on your exam, not medication calculation questions as those are usually at a lower level. The exam is graded by Pearson-Vue and the results sent on to the BONs. Your BON can give you a breakdown of what you did do or did not do, and it is up to them as to what they will do. Each is determined on their own merit, but have not seen any reverse any results before. And that is over many years of helping students.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion