HELLP!!! i took the nclex today

[robmatic]

uhoh21: i need help ladies n gents... pleeeeeze!! i took my boards today and it shut off at 75 questions. im feeling like crap right now, when it shut off on me i wanted to rip the computer screen off the table and throw it at the person proctoring our test. a lot of people are saying you did well if you had a lot of "harder" questions.... what does this mean? i took the kaplan course and all the questions they had were analysis/application type questions. so what does an "easier," recall/comprehension (lower end) question look like? are they as simple as what is the normal value for sodium/potassium? what are the s/s of right/left heart failure?, because i did not see anything like that. i had a bunch of prioritizing, psych and precaution ?'s that were tough to answer. please help!!! i need some re assurance. thanks!

[muffie, RN]

time will tell

take it easy and call your state board of nursing tomorrow

[rich2008]

HI,

I feel your angst. I took mine tuesday- mostly delegation, precuations, some psych, and meds i never heard of. at one point i felt i was struggling and a med calculation came up- i couldnt remeber what a microgram was! so i felt how can they pass me if i cant get a med calculation right. the only "easy" questions I got had to do with asthma and angina- only easy to me becuase i just did a paper on asthma and a presentation on angina.

I cant tell you if you passed or failed, but i can tell you our tests sound similar, our feeligns are similar and i was convinced i fialed. I passed. I hope you do to.

Lastly, if you can try to stop agonixing. I created so much self doubt and anxiety over the last 2 days I feel like I wasted two days of life.

Hope anuthing i wrote helps- and forgive me of any typos.

[robmatic]

thx for the post.... that really made me feel a lot better. its just frustrating. i couldnt focus and i was just so anxious that it put out of my testing mode. but yeah i guess yer right, i cant do anything about it now.

[rich2008]

how long did the test take you? i was in there from 8:45 until 10:03. I am usually a fast test taker but this thing made me crazy. I kept checking results on the website even though they told me 48hrs- it was 48 hrs to the minute- once i saw i passed on pearson vue, i still didnt believe it and called the mass board of nursing anf the guy told me mu license number and said i was a qualified r.n. which i had doubts after taking that f'm test.

people said to me- if it felt like a b*tch and u left feeling like crap after 75 questions, thennnnn its likely you passed- i hope you get ppsitive answers asap.

[saadia_s]

Relaxed girl. 75 question that is good sign most of the time.

[rich2008]

I think rob might be a guy.

[robmatic]

yup.... im a guy.... but yea rich.... i was there for about 2 hours. im praying and hoping that everything you guys are saying are right. now i just have to wait out 48 hours, but oh damn. im sure they dont do anything over the weekend so basically i have to wait until tuesday or wednesday next week... great... i probably will have pulled out all my hair by then!! thanks a million!!

[RN BSN 2009]

wishing you the best of luck :balloons:

[robmatic]

thanks everyone for the reassurance.... im still feelin kinda down. i sure wish cali would participate in the quick results program. ill keep everyone posted

[whirlwind]

ul pass, rob!

best of luck!!:)

[haven_RN]

Hi. I passed the NCLEX-RN last January with 75 questions also. My friends and I took the exam for about an hour and a half only (the three of us stopped at 75) , and left pearsonvue feeling like crap. I guess that's a normal reaction, after all, those were really hard questions. Lots of prioritization, delegation, and medications in alternate format... plus a bunch of computations. I guess all you can do right now is let go and let God. Everyone I knew (7 out of 7) who stopped with 75 questions did pass the exam. Hope that brings you the much needed reassurance. Goodluck and Godbless!