75 ?'s going through my mind, nonstop

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I've talked to some you already and yesterday it really helped soothe me for a few hours... but then as I was driving to go out to dinner I thought of another question... one of my only prioritizing questions and I realized that I got it wrong and put the wrong answer on the NCLEX... i'm convinced that getting that ? wrong is what's going to make me fail... I tried sleeping last night and was doing pretty good until about 6 am and then I had a dream about my questions and woke up in a complete panic... It's been about 3 hours and I still feel like I can't breathe and I feel like I'm sitting in the testing center all over again... heart pounding, SOB, nausea... I'm just so certain that I didn't pass.... I feel like I'm going to be the small percentage of people that fail with 75 questions because I can't think of enough that I maybe got right and i'm still worried about only getting about 5 prioritzing ?'s.... I know that if I fail it's not the end of the world... but it feels like it to me... urgh... this whole process is making want to change careers!!

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I am so sorry! I know exactly what you are going through. Did you mention if your state participates in the Pearson quick results? So maybe you can find out tomorrow morning.

Our tests sound very similar...

A classmate of mine who tested with me, who also passed - his test sounded very similar to mine, except he didn't get any med calc (which convinced me at the time that I failed..lol). He also had 75 q's, hardly any priority, no delegation, TONS of patho questions, etc.

I have since read that teaching questions ARE higher level. Were any of your patho questions sort of disguised as teaching questions? I had LOTS of those and was freaking out thinking they were lower level questions... and maybe they weren't.

But I really had hardly any of those "which would you see first" or "who would you room this patient with." I had maybe 5 or 6. That convinced me that I failed.. and I didn't!

Also.. you may not have got as many wrong as you think. I am sure there are many questions I got wrong. I got one of my med calc wrong for sure. I mean, I had maybe 2 questions on that whole awful test that I 100% KNEW the answer to. I am sure that some you got wrong but many that you didn't know... you picked the right answer.

My fingers are crossed for you.

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I did have questions like... " you know teaching has been successful if...." I'm just so worried about it! We do have quick results in MO and I'm hoping that they will be up tomorrow before I go to work. I'm going to be so sad if I have to tell my "bosses" that my tag needs to say nurse tech instead of registered nurse :( I've already been working there for a week!!! When i would do the kaplan review tests i'd ahve question that I completely guessed on or have entire tests that were a guess and most of the time I'd still get a "passing" score and i'm trying to remiond myself that even if I didn't know it I could have guessed right but it's not working so well yet... i think i'll try to do yard work or something in this freezing weather to getr my mind away from it... I tried that yesterday too... it was productive but I was thinking about it the whole time!! Thanks for responding and I'm happy to know that some of my teaching question may be considered higher level!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry Med/Surg.

I know the feeling. I don't know what to do with myself. Laundry is backed up, I haven't taken anything out to cook yet and my husband is looking at me as though I've been just released from a mental institution.

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I know the feeling. I don't know what to do with myself. Laundry is backed up, I haven't taken anything out to cook yet and my husband is looking at me as though I've been just released from a mental institution.

My husband keeps saying we don't have any food in the house and I just look at him with this dazed glare.... he's also looking at me like I have a mental handicap.... and I feel like i do at the moment!

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Specializes in Telemetry Med/Surg.
My husband keeps saying we don't have any food in the house and I just look at him with this dazed glare.... he's also looking at me like I have a mental handicap.... and I feel like i do at the moment!

They wont ever understand. I hate when they say "I know you passed" or "you'll be all right." I don't know what I want him to say but "i know you passed" aint it.

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I can totally relate to you. I had 75 questions ( I took the test on January 24th). I know of at least 6-7 questions that I got wrong. I had about 6-7 prioritizing questions, 6-7 SATA questions, 0 med calculations, and so on. I left there feeling like I failed miserably and did the same thing you are doing. I couldn't sleep at night and I kept thinking about the questions over and over and over again (I actually remembered tons of my questions). Everyone that I talked to about it said, "Oh I am sure you passed," or "You are worrying about nothing," but nothing helped. I was one of the first people in my graduating class to take the test also, so none of my peers could relate either......It was awful and I was sure that I was going to have to be an extern for the next 45 days........By the grace of God I found out yesterday that I passed. I know that nothing I say will comfort you, but think positive and remember there are 15 questions that are built in that dont even count!!!

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I can totally relate to you. I had 75 questions ( I took the test on January 24th). I know of at least 6-7 questions that I got wrong. I had about 6-7 prioritizing questions, 6-7 SATA questions, 0 med calculations, and so on. I left there feeling like I failed miserably and did the same thing you are doing. I couldn't sleep at night and I kept thinking about the questions over and over and over again (I actually remembered tons of my questions). Everyone that I talked to about it said, "Oh I am sure you passed," or "You are worrying about nothing," but nothing helped. I was one of the first people in my graduating class to take the test also, so none of my peers could relate either......It was awful and I was sure that I was going to have to be an extern for the next 45 days........By the grace of God I found out yesterday that I passed. I know that nothing I say will comfort you, but think positive and remember there are 15 questions that are built in that dont even count!!!

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I can totally relate to you. I had 75 questions ( I took the test on January 24th). I know of at least 6-7 questions that I got wrong. I had about 6-7 prioritizing questions, 6-7 SATA questions, 0 med calculations, and so on. I left there feeling like I failed miserably and did the same thing you are doing. I couldn't sleep at night and I kept thinking about the questions over and over and over again (I actually remembered tons of my questions). Everyone that I talked to about it said, "Oh I am sure you passed," or "You are worrying about nothing," but nothing helped. I was one of the first people in my graduating class to take the test also, so none of my peers could relate either......It was awful and I was sure that I was going to have to be an extern for the next 45 days........By the grace of God I found out yesterday that I passed. I know that nothing I say will comfort you, but think positive and remember there are 15 questions that are built in that dont even count!!!

I keep checking the pearson vue website even though it's Sunday and i know it won't be posted... it just say that it's not available yet and then I click on those words as if its going to do something.... I really think this experience so far is going to cause me to have some sort of permanent anxiety disorder. I keep telling myself that if I pass this thing I need to do something to change this process... if it's working for a NCLEX review company later in my career or changing something about the test... I just think it's somewhat ridiculous that everything we've studied for all these years and all the stress of nursing school doesn't even end when you graduate. I understand that some sort of standardized test is probably needed but at the same time I'm thinking why??? We've been tested consistently during school, have skills check-offs, have clinicals to go to all the time... if we didn't competently succeed in that then we wouldn't be graduating!!! And taking this test doesn't make you a good nurse or a bad nurse... although I'll feel like a bad one if I fail it... but we become good nurses from working on the floors and and experiencing different things... not form taking a test... anyways... I think I 've wrote enough about that... took up a little more of my time and that's what I'm going for today.... this waiting is driving mne crazy... literally... I hope that all of us pass and I've been asking God to agree with me and I think we're on good terms so things should work out for us!

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Dakota,

I'm sure you did great! I have my fingers crossed for you! I take my test on Tuesday and I have never been so scared! I hope we can all get through this!

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I keep checking the pearson vue website even though it's Sunday and i know it won't be posted... it just say that it's not available yet and then I click on those words as if its going to do something.... I really think this experience so far is going to cause me to have some sort of permanent anxiety disorder. I keep telling myself that if I pass this thing I need to do something to change this process... if it's working for a NCLEX review company later in my career or changing something about the test... I just think it's somewhat ridiculous that everything we've studied for all these years and all the stress of nursing school doesn't even end when you graduate. I understand that some sort of standardized test is probably needed but at the same time I'm thinking why??? We've been tested consistently during school, have skills check-offs, have clinicals to go to all the time... if we didn't competently succeed in that then we wouldn't be graduating!!! And taking this test doesn't make you a good nurse or a bad nurse... although I'll feel like a bad one if I fail it... but we become good nurses from working on the floors and and experiencing different things... not form taking a test... anyways... I think I 've wrote enough about that... took up a little more of my time and that's what I'm going for today.... this waiting is driving mne crazy... literally... I hope that all of us pass and I've been asking God to agree with me and I think we're on good terms so things should work out for us!

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I'm praying, too! AND I am also checking the stupid pearson site--hahaha! I know it wont be there until tomorrow, but STILL!

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I'm praying, too! AND I am also checking the stupid pearson site--hahaha! I know it wont be there until tomorrow, but STILL!

LOL I did the same thing......I checked all the time. I took my test at 8am on Thursday the 24th and it did not post until exactly 8am yesterday (the 26th). I checked at 758 and it wasnt there, but at exactly 8am my results were available!!!!

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