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Nursing Students NCLEX

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Hello, Im new here in USA, I registered to take the NCLEX exam, I have a question plz if anyone can help me, I found alot of questions online and I always trying to answer it, but approximately how many questions I have to answer correctly if for example I take exam from 100 question??

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.

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I like this explanation the best about the NCLEX.

What Percentage of Questions Do You Have to Get Right to Pass the NCLEX? | eHow

To Pass the Test

  • While most tests are based on a percentage of correct answers resulting in a grade, the NCLEX exam is not designed as such. In order to properly prepare students, the nursing association decided to base a test on statistical analysis of the test takers skills overall. This means a computer evaluates your answers as you are taking the test and determines what other questions to ask you. This helps to prevent someone from passing just because she understands all the medication questions but does not answer any lab questions correctly. The computer requires that you answer at a certain correct percentage rate in many categories to determine the passing or failing of the test.

Number of Questions

  • The board chooses to keep the mystery of the program and the testing quiet but most believe as long as you continue to answer above 70 percent of the answers correctly you will be allowed to keep answering questions past the 75 required to make a full test. The fewest questions you will be asked are 75 and the most is 264 questions. Outside the statistical requirements of the program, no one knows exactly what percentage of correct answers you must have to pass; instead the computer determines competence in many areas.
    The combination of percentages among several areas decides your pass or fail status. You could pass or fail at 75 questions, 150 questions or 264 questions; it all depends on your overall score and the computer's algorithm known as Computerized Adaptive Testing or CAT.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the NCLEX forum

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Hello, thanks alot for your reply i appreciate that,

Ok but how i can assess my self i mean can i find a similer exam to check my self, or other words, can i find an exam detector, because i need to know my self, thanks alot for you

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