...and like that, all the dreams I've been dreaming about.... were shattered!

[iheartnursing_cali]

So four weeks from today I took the nclex-pn.... when I called the BON they said I should probably get it anyday now since it was sent out yesterday... to my surprise when I checked the mail the letter was there.... but I noticed it was a big white envelope.... I rushed my kids inside the house and ripped it open and it said: so and so HAS NOT PASSED.... and like that, all the dreams I've been hoping and dreaming about for this day to come.. were shattered.

I was an honoroll student in my nursing class... but I guess my nerves got the best of me that day. I'm ashamed to say I'm one of those people that failed at 85 q's..... I rarely saw any threads about peope failing at 85 just of people who've passed (which gave me a lot of hope that I too would pass).... but I guess I'm proof now that there are people that can fail at 85, I just never thought I'd be one of them.

MY head is pounding and my eyes are dry and burning from crying :crying2:... I guess It'll take sometime to get back on my feet... (I have gone through worse things... and this is just another bump in the road for me... another way of God challenging me because he knows I am a strong person and can overcome this).

any advice on how to study... I think I will try Suzanne's plan...

also the application for re-exam states I'd have to send a $75.00 check to the BON for Cali. and it takes approx. 3-4 weeks to process my application (does it really take that long?)... and then upon verification of my exam eligibility, is that when I can pay my $200 reg fee to retest again w/ pearson vue? Will the BON send me the exam eligibility via email like how they sent my ATT? or through mail??

I need some words of encouragment... I'm feeling very low right now.

[safarinurse]

Go for it girl, am glad you are getting back on your feet. Best of luck as you study.

[ink10300]

It will be better the next time around. At least now you know what to expect.

I studied "Nursing made easy"- which helped me solidify main concepts and "Saunders"- which helped for critical thinking. I also re-read all of the systems in my "Foundations of Nursing" and my Chabner book, ("The Language of medicine").

To bad you didn't have my review teacher. She was amazing. We spent months in review class after graduation, almost up to taking the test. She always said when your studying, don't just study to know, study to know why.

It's an incredibly hard to test, don't beat yourself up. Just get back up and try again.

The only way you can truly fail is if you give up completely.

[njfb08]

this is to encourage you, i also took the nclexpn exam and awaiting my result, it's actually going to the 6th week, anyway, be strengthened if not for anything for your kids... gather yourself and go take it again, you are alive to take it again that's what counts... so be encouraged and wishing you all the best.:typing

[greenvalley]

hang in there i know your pain!

[navydad51]

I am really sorry you did not pass the NCLEX (in other words, you did not fail, you just did not pass a test) I can understand what you are going through, I am in my last term of LPN school right now, only 10 of us left from the original 27! As I look around the classroom, I can't believe that the others are gone.

We all have high anxiety right now. Getting ready for that horrible HESSI exam. The thoughts of not passing that after going through all of this! I also have a 3.5+ GPA, but by no means feel as though I am ready for that NCLEX exam or the HESSI. But I try my best to stay positive.

Everyone has there own favorite NCLEX PN review courses to study. I have been using Lippincotts, Saunders and now I just purchased Kaplans Qbank on line. Kaplan's to me so far has been the best in preparing me to answer some of the questions I am seeing in our CapStone class.

I am learning that it is not "all" about knowing content, but knowing "how" to answer these questions, what they are looking for. We just took an assessment exam, 204 questions in 4 hours. Some of the questions as I was reading them I thought to myself, "I know the answer"!!!!! but when I looked at the options, WOW! it was not there! so I had to think in a different way, and look for the best possible answer, look at the question again, to see exactly what it was asking. Don't have the results from that yet, but man, was it difficult. I was only 3 out of the 10 in my class to finish the whole test. Don't know if that was bad or good!

I am praying for you that you pass. Hang in there and please keep us all posted! Then God willing you can all pray for me!

[Katie82, RN]

The industry is full of very good, competent nurses who failed the NCLEX on the first try. You know by now that this is a test unlike any you have taken (I still have nightmares about "best right answer"), and although your school probably tried to prepare you for the test, it can still be intimidating. Please take it again, as soon as you can. Soon after I graduated, my program got rapped on the knuckles by the NLN for weeding out students they thought would not pass the NCLEX - they were too proud of their 100% pass rate. NLN said they were depriving nursing of good students who, although they may not pass the first time, would go on to becomming excellent nurses. They're right.

[navydad51]

Agreed KSilty! We hade students in our class hanging on with 2.5 GPA's and now they are gone. While others where given "breaks" (for missing clinicals etc.) but their GPA's are much higher. But those with the 2.5 GPA's? Where great in the clinical setting, fantastic at the bedside and their test scores did not match their knowledge as far as I am concerned.

I find that kind of ironic though. Is it not the NLN that puts the pressure on these schools to get that 100% pass rate?

[failedtesttaker]

Hey im sorry that you failed...i failed too...and its probably my 4th time failing...and now im working as a caregiver and trying to find ways to study...so dont feel bad...i felt the same way too...we have to find another way to study...im going to try suzanne's plan. you should try too.