Holy SATA!

CNASuzy · Jul 3, 2014

Wow!!! That would be my luck! I completely stink at those!!! Fingers crossed for you!

unicoRNurse · Jul 3, 2014

That was me on Tuesday. Also, I have to believe the people who said, "NCLEX wasn't that bad" didn't have an exam with the overwhelming majority of questions being SATA. Still no results, either. :/

MLW84 · Jul 3, 2014

Oh wow!!!! I hear alot of people saying that they got a lot of SATA I like SATA I always did good with those and I only got 5 I was kind of bummed.

grneyz083 · Jul 3, 2014

I took my exam this morning and also got at least half SATA with exam ending at 75 questions. I was having chest pain on the way home. Lol

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Jul 3, 2014

The NCLEX test is Computer adaptive Testing. If you keep getting answers correct, then it gives you a little more difficult questions (primarily SATAs) the more SATAs you get the better you are doing. After 75 questions, and a lot of hard SATAs, if you have remained "above the line" then it will shut off and you passed.

LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN · Jul 3, 2014

The NCLEX test is Computer adaptive Testing. If you keep getting answers correct, then it gives you a little more difficult questions (primarily SATAs) the more SATAs you get the better you are doing. After 75 questions, and a lot of hard SATAs, if you have remained "above the line" then it will shut off and you passed.

This.

Relax and enjoy the holiday! :up:

eerrmm · Jul 4, 2014

Same here. Out of the 75, 50-55 were SATA. It was my nightmare come true and doubly so since it was crazy heavy on pediatrics (which I know exactly sh*t about). Where was all my cardiac, neuro, even meds (!!!) - anything that I actually know! Getting the "good" pop-up but I don't believe it.

Manda92 · Jul 4, 2014

I took mine on Tuesday and had a ton of SATA and a few ordering ones. It shut off at 75. I felt like I bombed it when I got done, but I passed! Relax. If you're getting the good pop up, you most likely passed!

PennyS · Jul 4, 2014

Same here. Out of the 75, 50-55 were SATA. It was my nightmare come true and doubly so since it was crazy heavy on pediatrics (which I know exactly sh*t about). Where was all my cardiac, neuro, even meds (!!!) - anything that I actually know! Getting the "good" pop-up but I don't believe it.

I could not believe how hard it was. I heard others saying it was not that bad but I guess it is all relative. Update when you get your official results so I can officially congratulate you :)

MLW84 · Jul 4, 2014

The NCLEX test is Computer adaptive Testing. If you keep getting answers correct, then it gives you a little more difficult questions (primarily SATAs) the more SATAs you get the better you are doing. After 75 questions, and a lot of hard SATAs, if you have remained "above the line" then it will shut off and you passed.

I dont think getting a lot of SATA means you are doing good. I know people who got tons of SATA and failed. I on the other hand only got 5 and passed so I don't know why people think getting SATA means your doing well or means those are harder questions. I think the test sees your weakness and goes off of that which is probably why I only received 5 because I am good at SATA so therefore it didn't need to keep testing me on those. I do have a weakness of putting in order steps and that is probably why I got more of those than SATA.

eerrmm · Jul 4, 2014

Thanks, PennyS, but I really don't think I passed. I'll update though just so everyone knows if it really is possible to get the good pop up and still fail.

I agree with you, MLW84. It definitely identified my weaknesses on pediatrics and SATAs immediately and pounded me until I was done.