Have you ever heard of this many SATA?

[ashnem]

If I read what I am about to write, I would be sure that this person must be exaggerating! I got 75 questions on the NCLEX today and 33 were SELECT ALL THAT APPLY! Has anyone ever heard of that? I got no math, one audio and one chart. And 33 SATA- I was traumatized. I sat in my car and cried :crying2:for an hour before I could even drive home. I did Kaplan, scored in the 99th percentile on HESI but I am sure failed the NCLEX! Kaplan did not prepare me for this. They had ONE section on alternate format with only 27 questions and they were a mix of SATA, hotspot, fill in the blank... I am freaking out!!!!

[caliotter3]

Theoretically one could get a test with 100% SATA type questions.

[ashnem]

Thats scary and Im afraid that this is gonna be my luck next week. If I get that many SATA, i know im gonna have trouble. Were the SATA questions hard?

Yes the SATA were hard! I only felt confident about 2 of them (infection precautions). Don't know what I am allowed to say but most were pharm. At least 2-3 drugs that I had never even heard of! On a typical question you have a 25% chance of getting it right even if you guess. Most, if not all of the time, I have a 50% of getting it right b/c I get it narrowed down to 2 choices. With SATA, the possible combinations are (seemingly) infinite therefore it is really hard to get it right. Even with drugs that I knew, I don't know EVERYTHING about it, therefore it is hard to know if one of the selections apply and I just don't that particular fact, or if it is just not true.

For background, my HESI conversion score was 99.9% and my percentile was 98.9%! The highest score ever in my program! Yet I felt like the biggest, stupidest idiot ever after the NCLEX. I truly do not believe that I had the opportunity to "demonstrate minimum competency" with the exam that I had. None of my studying prepared me for what I got. I will admit that I only started studying one week out for the exam. I did no reading, did the required Qtrainers on Kaplan, the alt format test (only 27 problems with a mix of all alt. format types- not just SATA) and maybe 150 Q of the QBank. So I really only did little more than the minimum to prepare. Getting a high HESI score made me a slacker. :zzzzz

[skyandsydneysmom]

I think that at least 40% if not more of my 75 questions were SATA...I was in complete shock everytime I saw another one! I just found out I passed though and I am sure you did too!

[ashnem]

I think that at least 40% if not more of my 75 questions were SATA...I was in complete shock everytime I saw another one! I just found out I passed though and I am sure you did too!

Congrats! I seriously would like to start a PTSD support group for those of us that survived this hell! I need to process! I came home and drank! And cried! And ate ice cream!

[noyesno, MSN, APRN, NP]

Congrats! I seriously would like to start a PTSD support group for those of us that survived this hell! I need to process! I came home and drank! And cried! And ate ice cream!

Did you do the pearson vue trick yet?

[ashnem]

I PASSED! CANNOT BELIEVE IT!

[chillin4me]

I PASSED! CANNOT BELIEVE IT!

congratulations!!!:nurse::nurse::nurse::nurse:

[CleeM89]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Did you try the trick? Did it work for you?

[Mrs. SnowStormRN, RN]

Hi. I think I know who this is. Well you pass! So proud of you, youre a total genius

[RadBSN]

Congrats on passing! I also got a TON of SATA! At one point I said "seriously?!?" out loud. I didn't think to count, but most of my questions were either SATA or "who would you see first?' I had one pharm question--on a drug that I knew. It's such a weird test!

[newN]

:ancong!:

[skyandsydneysmom]

Congrats! I seriously would like to start a PTSD support group for those of us that survived this hell! I need to process! I came home and drank! And cried! And ate ice cream!

I know because I did the same thing!! But now it is all over and we are nurses!!!