I passed my EXAM .california board with pearsonvue trick

hey guys, just wanted to share that i'm so happy that in my 2nd attempt i finally made it..I'm a foreign grad batch 2010 so my assessment on myself was that my foundation was not that good, although i graduated from a college in the with an ISO level 3 (Davao Doctors College) meaning you got a good quality school. First exam was in april 20, 2011..did some of the self review, flipping pages to pages, while managing to work 2 jobs and review which was not really helping me and at that time, dealing with life challenges with my Girl and our unborn baby on the way....I'd say it was really hard for me, i come home from work tired and the next day which is supposed to be my off, i would have to work on my other job and at the same time dealing with problems financially because i want to make sure that my girl back home has enough money to spend during pregnancy and some money on the side just for emergency cases...anyways putting that all together didn't really help me during my review because i could not concentrate on my review, mind sometimes ventures...

So during the first attempt didn't make it..Computer shut down on me at question #89..most of the questions that i had was SATA, and Prioritization which as really irritating coz' i don't have any idea if i missed something or have picked the wrong answer..i live in hawaii but my papers was process in Cali. Board RN...so anyways, i took that first exam with high hopes that i'm gonna make it that i had given myself enough time for the review...but sad to say i didn't make it.....

I tried doing pearsonvue trick 48 hours after i took the exam but as soon as i click "next", it asked for another payment of $200....which means only one thing---"i didn't pass"... 2 weeks after, i received the mail from cali board with a letter saying that i didn't pass.....it was a mix emotion...upsetting, mad at myself for not doing my best, demoralize...felt it was so unfair because i've been praying and asking for it....So i guess God has a better plans for me, that i needed to open my eyes if i were to plan to pass and be an RN.....Cali has a 45 days waiting for me to reapply which is another payment of $150..yep! money matters to me because i also have bills to pay and at the same time supporting my girl back home with our baby....i waited 30 days after the exam to reapply although it says it the paper wait 45 days to reapply...Sent out my reapplication paper on the 30th day and got response mid June....June 20, 2011 i got my ATT and schedluled myself for sept. 23...

I was reflecting on what i was doing before during the review and retracing on what i could have done...i was putting a lot of thoughts about it, been praying to God what should i do......

I've been praying to God to watch over me and my family back home for the decision that i have to make..I talked to my girlfriend and explained to her that i need to let go of my other job so i can concentrate more with the review and "actually asking her to limit/hold her temper against me" because i know we always have a fight over finances and other things..Finally mid July, i sacrificed my other job as a CNA in a Hospital and left me with just 1 job but still in a Hospital setting (telemetry) CNA...

i had to buy me a book Under Lacharity which really helped me with my understanding especially prioritization...I had to answer 100 questions a day and at the same time reading the rationales at the end of the day...

One of my co-worker told me to take review class..One of them telling me to take the review class from Kaplan... and the other one discretely:p told me to consider taking a review class from Excell Nursing Review...

So i said hmm ok...let me do some research about it...So i did some research, got some feedback's from other blogs. the only problem is that i didn't see any negative reviews, which is on my part thinking that this is too good to be true that they have really good numbers of percentage in passers...but the only problem is that i live in Hawaii and the review is held in the mainland at 4 different states..That would me i have to fly out, stay in a hotel meaning more spending...Like what i said i only have 1 job left with financial issues....

August came, i decided to go for it...went online for priceline and got me a package for round trip fare and hotel for $900 good for sept. 6-18..The review was in Las Vegas sept. 8-17..10 days straight review 8-5.....So i left hawaii sept.6, had enough time to settle in my room...Day 1 sept.8 paid for the review fee; the reviewer didn't waste time, and went ahead and started the review...So to make my long story short for the review.. during and at the end of the day of the review "i can honestly say that i had better understanding on topics that i though i knew...Like what i said in the beginning of this paragraph " my foundation is not good. i'm way different from other people who can get things at one time"....if people can read books and process that information at one time, me on the other hand have to read 2-3 times before it sinks in (if get lucky)

I had to ask the med-surg reviewer to give me her thoughts about my schedule date if i should keep it (sept. 23) or be moving it....so she said move it...and give yourself 2-3 weeks to go over my notes and take the exam...on sept. 10 i had to move the exam date to Oct. 6 which gave me almost 3 weeks to review my notes instead of 1 week..

from Sept 19-23 i've been reviewing my med-surg notes for 6-8 hours a day..the last week of sept i had to work and make up the days that i was out...so even after work i gave myself 1-2 hours of review so my shifts starts at 3:15 to 11:45pm and got home around 12:30...gave myself 30 mins to rest before i review for 1-2 hours for my pedia, ob-gyn, and psych.......

Oct 1-4 i went back and just scanned on notes all over again just to make sure that i did have an understanding on my review notes...

Oct. 5 gave myself a day of rest..not opening any notes even if i think i have missed something or just needed to clarify things... before and after reviews, i always pray for guidance even on the day of my exam

Oct.6 was the Exam day...i was so excited to take NCLEX-RN exam that i was there 1 hour before they even open...anxious and excited i should say...since i was the first one at the door, i was the first one to get called and gave them my papers..but as soon as the guy from pearsonvue asked for my papers, he asked me for my ATT....

i had this sudden rush of blood in the back of my head and in my head saying "Crap! i totally forgot to print out a new ATT....so he was nice enough to let me go out and print a new one...it was my luck that day that there was a Khinkos near ala moana (pearson vue)...took me about 5 mins to print and go back to take the exam...

While taking the exam on my first question i had this slight smile that hey i know this..came 2nd i had this weird feeling that i know this..3rd to 5th..i was like laughing at myself with a big smile "Oh my" i know this questions... My computer shuts off at #87 for 2.15hours....when home and talked to my parents and slept...7am got awaken by a call from my sister in arizona asking me if what's the result..i told her that it takes 1 week to get the result and i don't want to do the pearsonvue trick because it might demoralize me or something.....but anyway out of my curiosity..just before lunch i did trythe pearsonvue trick and it gave me " The candidate has recently passed this exam. A new schedule cannot be made at this time".....but still i was not sure i did pass...Monday morning i called cali Boards but told me it takes 2 weeks for the processing but did not say anything if i passed or failed...being so anxious i've been checking their website every 2-3 hours for update....finally at 11:30pm hawaii time that's around 2:30AM tuesday Oct. 11 my name showed up in their website...YEP! I PASSED....

So my advise to all who were planning to take the exam...Never Never forget to call upon him and ask for guidance, just pray, lessen your worries and let him take care of all the things that may or might bother you.....

Thank you giving a time to read my post