I finally passed!! Officially an RN!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

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Hello all!!

It is my wonderful pleasure to tell you all that I found out yesterday morning that I did pass!! It was my 4th time and I was so ready for it to happen! I has been over a year since I have gotten out of nursing school and started this journey of getting my RN license. I am still in shock when I think about it! I took my exam for the 4th time Wednesday morning and it shut off around question 120. I can't tell you for sure what number because I was really expecting it to go all the way to 265 so I took a break at 100 and then remember looking up at the screen and seeing 119 and then looked down did a few more questions and the screen went blank. I have never had a feeling like that before. My brain froze, my heart stopped, and I just didn't know what to think. I honestly thought the whole time that I was taking the exam that I was failing haha! I kept getting select all that apply and I thought that those were low level questions so I was freaking out. But as I got toward my final question I thought that I was doing a pretty good job. I thought that I was on way back to the competency line. I had a feeling that I was going to pass because I just didn't think that it was possible for me to fail at that point. So I went to my car and cried because I was just in genuine shock over everything. I went home and I just relaxed for a little while and after a few hours I call my boyfriend and I had him go on the pearson vue website and do the trick. I was too afraid to do it myself so I wanted him to do it before I did and then let me know. Well he filled out all the info and then he told me to go ahead and look. I just wanted him to tell me if he saw the pop-up but he told me that I had to look. So I looked at the computer and saw the pop-up and just fell to the floor in tears!! I have never been so happy in my entire life!! The next day I looked on the board of nursing website and saw that I had a registered nurses licenses and my quick results said that I had passed!! I am honestly so incredibly blessed!! I have worked so hard and I am so glad and relieved that it finally has paid off!!! I would have to say that the turning point in all of this was when I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't putting in the effort that I needed to to study and pass this exam. I had taken kaplan before and I didn't really think that it helped and I had tried to study on my own, but nothing really worked. I think alot of it had to do with the fact that I wasn't putting in 100% of my effort into it. I think that for a long time I thought that I would just get through it eventually and that I didn't need to study all the time or put all my effort into it. I originally blamed my failure on being a bad test taker and having test anxiety, which I do believe is a factor, but not the major one. A few months ago I finally admitted to myself that I needed to learn the material, the core content as Aunt Marlene calls it!! I decided that I was going to try HURST review and let me tell you it was a fabulous decision!! Hurst review is one of the most awesome courses I have ever taken! Aunt Marlene taught me things in a way that was easy to understand and fun to learn, plus easy to comitt to memory! I would recommend her course to anyone who is struggling with passing!! With the help of Marlene and ExamCram, as well as my friends, family, boyfriend, this website, and ultimatly God I managed to put the pedal to the metal and get the license I had been so long working for!!

I want to thank all of you on this website, all the people who responded to my threads, and all those who gave me encouragment!! I can not tell you how much it helped me and how much it meant to me!! When I failed the first time I was completely devistated and I thought I was the only person in the world who failed and I found this website and what a blessing it has been!! I have found friends on here and found people who are struggling and who have succeeded just like I have!! For those of you who are still trying don't give up!! It will happen for you!! God's timing is not our timing!! And trust me that is the hardest thing in the world to accept but you just have to trust that God will make things happen and it will be the best for you even though you don't agree at the time.

For those of you who are still struggling or need some encouragement please contact me!! I am willing to help you with whatever you need, whether it be advice, to vent or chat, or just a prayer. Please don't hesitate to ask!! Most of all please don't ever give up!! I know how devistating multiple failures can be and how frustrating it is! I know how hard it is to come back and keep studying and watching all your nursing friends who have already passed and who have jobs go on with their lives while you are still stuck trying to pass. Please don't give up!! You can do this!! you just have to have faith, family, and good friends to support you along the way!! If I can become an RN so can you!! Again THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for all of your help!! I wouldn't have been able to do this without you!! If anyone ever needs anything please feel free to ask!! :D

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!

I AM OFFICIALLY AN RN!!:loveya::loveya::loveya:

MUCH LOVE!!!

-Leah McElrath, RN:nurse:

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conratulations.. hoping to pass my exam too.. just like you..

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youre hard work as paid off, congrats RN! :yeah:

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hi congrats!!!..

i will be taking mine this tuesday!!!..for the third time, im so desperate!.im so happy for you!!..i hope and i pray i can pass too..=)

anyways, im just curious about the trick???..how will you know that you pass?..what about the pop-up thing??what does it mean?...everybody is talking about it but i didnt try it.. im just curious so that after my exam i can try it too..lol!.. congrats again!..

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congratulations!

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congrats! :yeah:

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Congratulations! God is SO good!

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hi congrats!!!..

i will be taking mine this tuesday!!!..for the third time, im so desperate!.im so happy for you!!..i hope and i pray i can pass too..=)

anyways, im just curious about the trick???..how will you know that you pass?..what about the pop-up thing??what does it mean?...everybody is talking about it but i didnt try it.. im just curious so that after my exam i can try it too..lol!.. congrats again!..

The trick is really easy to do. If you click on the forum that is talking about it all it gives you the instructions on exactly how to do it and what you should get. If you get the pop-up then that means that you passed. If it goes straight to the credit card page then you didn't pass. But all the info is in the forum! Good luck to you!!

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thank you everyone!! good luck to those who will be taking their exams soon!!

God is good!!:D

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