Just finished NCLEX......

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i just got home from taking the nclex and i am feeling very discouraged, which i hear is normal. i took all 265 questions and never felt less confident in my life. i have never been good at exams so i knew that i would come out feeling like i failed but i really feel like i bombed the exam. i knew i didn't want to stop at 75 because i knew that would probably be an automatic fail for me. i really felt so bad i was crying immediately. my friend and i went together and she was done in 75. i took 4 hours and looking back i think i sped through because i honestly did not know the answers. i tried using the strategies learned in kaplan but just couldn't apply them to the format of the questions. it seemed as if once i would eliminate 2 the other two were very similar (both airway, or both cardiac). i had one math question and 1 sata. no hotspots, no drag and drop. mostly priority, alot of meds (alot i did not know and had to guess), who to discharge in a crisis, a lot of diseases (parkinsons, guillian barre, meneire, diabetes, copd, hepatitis, and cirrhosis). procedures considerations, side effects etc. i am really nervous because i have a job waiting for me and i am supposed to start in 10 days. i am so worried of the embarassment of having to tell everyone that i failed and i can't work. i have so many people counting on me and i really hope i don't let them down and most of all myself.

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Specializes in ICU.

I know how you feel. I took my test on the 20th of this month. Can't get results yet because my school hasn't sent the transcripts. I got about 170-180 something questions and felt horrible about it afterwards. I too have a job waiting for me as well (had the "interview" this morning). So I understand what you are going through. Just hang in there and try not to think about it (easier said than done). Go relax and do something fun.

Wishing you the best of luck!

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I had 265 and I know exactly how you feel... unfourtunately i failed...I hope the results are much better for you!

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Specializes in LTC, case mgmt, agency.

Hang in there and wait for the official results. You are right, most feel very discouraged when they leave the test site. The test is just so hard to predict. Good luck.

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I know exactly how you feel. I took nclex-rn on tuesday and haven't got results yet. It cut off around 190 questions. I'm so devastated. I feel sure I failed. I had a little bit of everything....psy, meds, ldrp, meds,room placement, meds, proitization and more meds. There were so many meds that I didn't know. I feel sure that I failed.

When I took nclex-pn it cut off at 75 questions and I was worried but I felt like I actually knew some of the answers so I felt like I had passed but this time around I feel that "sense of doom" that I've been taught about.

Hang in there.......This test is unpredictable

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Yeah I have been trying to stay positive and I have been trying to remember questions and look at answers, not as if it will help but I know if I had got some right it will make me feel better. I couldn't imagine waiting months to know my results. I think I would die!

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

You can pass with any number, get out and about, distract yourself from the exam an good luck

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I took it yesterday thinking that I would be in and out in an hour or two, like everyone else I know, but I sat throught question after question and 5 hrs 51 minutes later I had gone through all 265 questions. I am horrified. I felt like I was getting the same kinds of questions over and over and I thought, "Did I get the other one about mechanical vents wrong? Should I pick the opposite answer this time?" And what the heck is Meneire?? Sooo many drugs that I had never, ever heard of. I was so fatigued by the end and all I wanted to do was go home. No hot spots, no drag and drop as well.

I know how you feel. I feel like I've been run over by a bus. I don't know what to tell people at work tomorrow... :( But, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?

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Just relax, the test is set up so that you should miss 50% of the questions. It is the level of difficulty so it is hard to know. I was sure I had flunked and then I saw my license number on the state board posting! The mind blower is that I was freaked about how many I could remember for sure that I DID NOT KNOW! I even started planning what I would do or say and how I would study for the next test. It was all BS so I would say from someone who was sure he would flunk....chill out!!!

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hi you did wht u can so far.....think positive and pray to God.....i can understand ur feeling at this time. just pray to God.......thats wht u can do now.......good luck and tell us about ur exam.

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wishing you all the best!!!:up:

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I want to say thank you to all of you that are being so supportive. It really makes me feel better. I just found out that two other people that were in the program with me had received 265 as well and I know the one passed and I am unsure about the other. I will be sure to post my results either way, pass or fail.

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