Have you ever heard of this many SATA?

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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!:eek: 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!!!!

Specializes in Hospice.

i got about 10 SATA

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Hi,

I had 25 questions SATA;I didn't pass;but good luck to you!!!!

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

as much as we all *HATE* SATAs :mad:, they are actually GOOD questions to get because they indicate higher-level thinking questions - meaning you were doing very well on your NCLEX if you kept getting them!

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I had 75 questions (maybe 76 or 77-I stopped looking after 71!). I did not keep count but I had a TON of SATA and ranking questions. The questions definitely got harder! One dosage calc that was pretty tough. I just found out I passed. Good luck!

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Specializes in NCA, Graduate Nurse.
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!:eek: 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!!!!

OmG! I swear I had the same test.. shut off at 75 I just took mine today, I had about 33 SATA's myself, no med questions, and either one or 2 drag and drop..ugghhh!! Ive actually been crying all day since I finished, Im mentally exhausted, this was my 4th time, and I cant imagine goin throught this again. My sata's were somewhat hard but yet easy topics so that scares me, the rest was multiple choice and all priority and who do u see first, I think thats a good sign, but God only knows, Ive studied sooooo hard, Ive been dealing with this for a year and half now, and now I just have to wait and see for the next 2 days!! WHy do they do this to us???? If you have any advice, as to what you think about my test that might help me! Ive scrolled down the page and noticed you passed!! Congrats to you!! I hope thats me on Saturday!:yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in NCA, Graduate Nurse.
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!

Did you pass?

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i only got 5 sata's and 1 drag/drop out of 75 questions..and i got a good pop up..weeeeee

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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. :confused:

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

so how did u prepare? what were your mtrls then? CONGRATS!!!!! :))))

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I stopped counting after 15, I found out that I passed this morning. I tried to look on the bright side and think that the better you do the harder the questions are but nothing prepares you for the questions they ask.

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:ancong!:

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Reading this post makes me laugh when I look back. I just took my nclex and about half of my test was select all that apply if not more than half. I was freaking out! I passed but it was truly traumatizing. I used the true or false method for answering these questions.

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We're on the same boat.. I took mine this afternoon and I stopped at 85(pn) I also got 33 SATA question and not even sure if got them right..and now I'm freakin palpitating dont know what to do.. ;(

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