I promised myself that if I passed the NCLEX I was going to leave my post. First of all my apologies if I make mistakes in this writing as English is not my first language.
I took the NCLEX RN for the second time on 12/16/15, I went confident this time because I took the time to prepare. I used Kaplan books for content review and thenI used Kaplan Qbank for two months. I didn't have the money to pay for the entire course
The day of the exam I was nervous but not to the point of been shaking or feeling my heart racing, the first 10 questions seemed very easy and I felt that I saw the same questions in Kaplan, I started to get anxious when I noticed that I was reaching question number 100 and I kept going, my anxiety got even worse when I reached question 220 and the computer kept throwing me questions and guess what: I took all the 265 questions in 5 hours...
I noticed that I got the same question in a different wording more than once, I even told myself "I already answer this question" anyways I got a good amount of SATA, lots of priorization and 2 exhibits.
When I left the center I felt horrible, defeated and with the feeling that I failed the test AGAIN. I went to the bathroom to cry.
I didn't want to the the PVT because I was scared to confirm my defeat. On friday I started to check with the BON website to see if my name showed up and nothing, I was going crazy. Finally today I confirmed that I PASSED!!! I'm officially a RN
The last message I want to give to all of you is that you can do it, guys this was my second attempt AFTER 10 YEARS!!! working full time and having a son. The first time I took the NCLEX was in september of 2005 and I have to admit it, I'd understimate the test. As many of you, I pannicked when I reached question 265 because by then I thought for sure that I failed, but hey I passed, so please don't get discouraged if you reach this number.
I hope this post gives you some hope, feel free to ask me questions and good luck to you all :)
