IF You Want to Know How the NCLEX WORKS. Please READ THIS

[coolnovember]

dear allnurses.com readers. i copied and pasted this information from this website: http://caring4you.net/concept.html.

this is not my own information. but i think this would be very very helpful!

"i am writing in response to your letter concerning computerized adaptive testing for nclex. perhaps i can explain how computerized adaptive testing for the nclex works. the goal of computerized adaptive testing or cat, is to determine your competence, based on the difficulty of questions you can answer correctly, not how many questions you can answer correctly. this is a fundamentally different approach than is used on paper-and-pencil tests, where everyone receives the same questions. cat examinations are individualized. we know the exact difficulty of each of the approximately 3,000 questions in the pool, because each has been taken as a tryout question by thousands of candidates and then statistically analyzed. picture the questions all lined up, from easiest to hardest. if we asked you the easiest questions, you'd get most of them right. if we asked you the hardest, you would probably get most wrong. as we move from easy to hard, there will come a point where you go from getting more right...to...getting more wrong. this is the point where you are answering 50% correctly.