Hey everyone! Just wondering if anyone was having similar issues with their board of nursing declaring them eligible...My dilemma:
I graduated about a month ago and sent all my documents to my state board as well as registering online with pearsonvue. After waiting several weeks I called to see if my material was received. (NO ONE answered phones for days after repeated calling at different intervals) Once finally speaking with a rep I was told that they received my letter from my dean declaring I completed my schooling and would make me eligible. Once I checked online it still stated "ineligible"! After calling again a rep told me they "went online to the NCSBN website and made you eligible to sit for the exam". However, I have received NO emails and when I called pearsonvue they said they have not received eligibility from the board of nursing. Does anyone know what is going on or if this has happened to them?! How long from the time your board tells NCSBN you are eligible does pearsonvue get this and send your ATT? I am incredibly confused and worried I wont get to test before my work start date next month.
That's awesome to hear. I'm in New York too and still waiting for my ATT as well. Hopefully soon, though I hear the testing centers are backed up til mid July.
Really? I thought it wasn't hard to get a test date. How'd you find that out? I'm curious because I want to take the NCLEX as soon as possible. Hoping our ATTs come sooner than later.
I sent in my application and documents to MI BON in early April and received my application confirmation 2 weeks later. I then received my ATT on April 29th...before I had even graduated (graduated May 11). So I signed up to take it that day and actually just took it earlier today. My brain is roasted and toasted. I'm not sure what to make of having taken all 265 questions...after taking multiple predictor exams predicting 88%, 93% and 65 on kaplan practice exam that I would pass NCLEX first time. I'm too terrified to try the "trick" I've been reading so many stories of how it is worked for so many people but also heard multiple people and testimonies report that they received a false negative...did not get the good pop up but did end up passing...especially since i took all 265, I'm just going to have some faith....and wait...like a basketcase.
Anyways, on MI BON website when I go to check my application status it says under the column of missing documents and such, that they are still waiting for my transcripts (which because of a hold up by my school were finally sent this week), waiting to be made eligible and also waiting for NCLEX score.
My question is how come the website says basically that i have not been made eligible yet but I received my ATT from pearson back the end of April and registered to sit for NCLEX and actually did indeed take the exam today? Somewhere there is a disconnect....does anyone have any experience with this? Can this problem affect how my scores are interpreted and verified for authenticity? Someone from the BON had to have made me eligible otherwise i would not have received my ATT right? So why would the website on my file show that I have not even been made eligible yet? I am just a little worried and a little paranoid because I don't want something that I didn't even do wrong to affect the potentiality of my attaining my long awaited RN license.
Any help or comments or recommendations would be sooooo appreciated!
How did you even receive your ATT before you graduated. That doesn't make any sense to me, that is your ability to test meaning you finished nursing school, yet you received it before you finished.
Anyway, just because you had to do all 265 questions doesn't mean you have more of a chance of failing. My friend that's been a nurse for years passed with 265. Sounds like you went in there knowing what you were doing too. Good Luck!
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Sounds like there may have been an error that your ATT was inadvertently released pre-graduation as graduation is a.condition of eligibility. You might want to check with theBoN ASAP. I have no idea what recourse you would have if you shouldn't have been able to take the NCLEX pre-graduation and paid the $200 and took the test. Unless Pearson made the error...they can waive the fee to retest.
Did you ever see eligible to test on the BoN website?
Really? I thought it wasn't hard to get a test date. How'd you find that out? I'm curious because I want to take the NCLEX as soon as possible. Hoping our ATTs come sooner than later.
I was talking to someone whose daughter just graduated. But she might have only looked at one testing center. I think it all depends on where you take it. I'm willing to drive a couple of hours if I have to, so I'm in the same boat as you are.
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Really? I thought it wasn't hard to get a test date. How'd you find that out? I'm curious because I want to take the NCLEX as soon as possible. Hoping our ATTs come sooner than later.