Just thought I would share my NCLEX experience. As I am sure I have in common with all of you during nursing school all you heard was NCLEX this, or NCLEX that. I did ok in school, but the way they made NCLEX sound I thought it was going to be insanely hard. My issue with nursing school was the form of the questions. It was harder for me to try and decipher what it was the questioner wanted to know, than it was to answer the question. If it was straight knowledge or judgement questions I would have done much better than what I did do. I chalked it up to "Well, if this is what NCLEX is like I need to get better at deciphering intent and just deal with it".
NCLEX was nothing like any of the tests I took in nursing school. The way the questions were phrased it was very clear to me what it was that they wanted to ask/test me for. It was by far the easiest test in nursing I have ever taken. I won't lie and say I winged it w/o studying. I finished 2200 questions on Uworld and put a lot of time in preparing for it. I thought I was prepared going in, but you never know.
I finished in 75 questions. When I got done I was like "Is that it?" I am a very hypertensive person who has a lot of stress. If there is something to worry about, I will worry about it. However after it cut me off at 75 there was only about 2 percent doubt that I may have failed. I knew I had owned that test.
Here is my complaint. What I did not like about nursing school and Uworld (and what I struggled with most) was the way questions were framed so that I had to guess at what the questioner was asking. I hated that aspect of it, but if I wanted to pass NCLEX I had better learn it (or so I thought). After taking NCLEX and seeing how questions were actually phrased I am a bit upset. Why were questions phrased to be deliberately misleading or vague in school when NCLEX did not phrase questions that way?
Anyway, I am not going to lose sleep over it but it does kind of annoy me. I am curious if anyone knows what percentage of people finish NCELX in 75. It is just for bragging rights, but I would still be interested to know.