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I could really use some words of encouragement right now. I did a reasonable amount of studying and did well on Kaplan's Qtrainers. Well... I took NCLEX this morning & my questions were a mix of semi-easy and pretty hard questions. I know people says it's a good sign if you get mostly hard questions but I definitely had some easy ones. And I'm not quite sure what constitutes a hard question but I'm not feeling so confident. The computer shut off at 75 questions. After the test, I made the mistake of looking up about 8 or so questions just to find I got them all wrong. I also got some repeat questions that I know I got wrong. Is it a bad sign if you get a Hot Spot question?

I know everyone feels like they failed after NCLEX but did anyone get shut off early and look up questions and find they got them wrong and then pass? I am so scared right now. Sorry this post keeps going on and on, I feel like a robot right now. I'm physically/mentally/emotionally drained. Thanks in advance for any words of encouragement.

Thank you for your support Pagandeva !!! We will see soon how we did Thanks again...

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All this talk about looking up questions is interesting, because I came home two days ago and my short-term memory was like pudding. All I can remember is the following:

-two questions on Bu-Spar, both of which I probably missed because I was blanking on what Bu-spar actually is!!

-a bunch of priority questions, in which all four patients were a "photo-finish", either equal on Maslow's hierarchy (to me, at least) or just difficult for me distinguish for some other reason

-about 10-15 "check all that apply" items. that never goes well, for me.

-a blessedly small number of L&D items. didn't feel great about most of them.

-seemed like 1/3 easy (could be deceptive), 1/3 ambiguous, and 1/3 that might as well have been in Sanskrit for all the sense that they made. If i wasn't too stressed to remember things, I could've walked out of there with some new medical vocabulary under my belt! How's that for discouraging...

-total of 265, walked out feeling like I'd been lobotomized, got slightly lost driving home, this morning found out that whatever I did was good enough to pass

-still trying to process that last item

So, don't let the Blah-feeling, or your double-check of items throw you. You might be remembering things funny, and keep in mind that they test you to failure (50% right, 50% wrong), rather than to a percentage like 75%. Odds are that you made a better showing than you're giving yourself credit for right now!

-Kevin

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All this talk about looking up questions is interesting, because I came home two days ago and my short-term memory was like pudding. All I can remember is the following:

-two questions on Bu-Spar, both of which I probably missed because I was blanking on what Bu-spar actually is!!

-a bunch of priority questions, in which all four patients were a "photo-finish", either equal on Maslow's hierarchy (to me, at least) or just difficult for me distinguish for some other reason

-about 10-15 "check all that apply" items. that never goes well, for me.

-a blessedly small number of L&D items. didn't feel great about most of them.

-seemed like 1/3 easy (could be deceptive), 1/3 ambiguous, and 1/3 that might as well have been in Sanskrit for all the sense that they made. If i wasn't too stressed to remember things, I could've walked out of there with some new medical vocabulary under my belt! How's that for discouraging...

-total of 265, walked out feeling like I'd been lobotomized, got slightly lost driving home, this morning found out that whatever I did was good enough to pass

-still trying to process that last item

So, don't let the Blah-feeling, or your double-check of items throw you. You might be remembering things funny, and keep in mind that they test you to failure (50% right, 50% wrong), rather than to a percentage like 75%. Odds are that you made a better showing than you're giving yourself credit for right now!

-Kevin

Thanks for the kind words. And, congrats!! :balloons:

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