NCLEX was easy

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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.

Mine is next week and I have begun the freakout stage. I took a month off school in August like we were told not to (accelerated program and I needed to take a step back before I had a nervous breakdown.) I started uworld sept 5th and I've got 550 questions left. I'm averaging around 58-62% overall. I find uworld pretty freaking hard for me. I'm awful at peds, ob, and anything baby related in general. The SATA, I get maybe 3 or 4 right out of every 10?

I only bought the one "assessment" so I haven't used it yet, sometime this week. Any advice on how to get through this? Almost my whole cohort has passed already, and here I am still paralyzed. I always go randomly do the kaplan question of the day on their site and get it wrong. Its very different than the uworld way of asking things.

I need this over with...the field of psychiatry needs me. Hah.

You're stressing your self out unnecessarily. You can do this!

I would suggest practicing SATA. I found uworld to be very helpful in successfully answering SATA. They were my weakness in the beginning and then after practicing, practicing, practicing, I was able to answer them correctly most of the time. Once it clicked, it was easy.

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You're stressing your self out unnecessarily. You can do this!

I would suggest practicing SATA. I found uworld to be very helpful in successfully answering SATA. They were my weakness in the beginning and then after practicing, practicing, practicing, I was able to answer them correctly most of the time. Once it clicked, it was easy.

You were right. I was very stressed! However, I passed in 75 somehow! UWORLD + that 35 page study guide everyone uses on here. hooray!

On 9/24/2018 at 9:54 AM, RNNPICU said:

75 is just a number and does not mean anything different that 76, 80, 140, or 265. Out of a new grad group of 30, 3 were repeat test takers and failed their first time at 75. 75 is not like getting a 100% on a test and the other numbers are less. So bragging rights of 775 questions, not really anything to brag about.

But... Congratulations on passing the NCLEX!! That is a bragging right. Passing is a huge deal

Yes it is.  The exam determined she was good because she or he got so many right.   He or she dominated that test because he or she thought it was easy.  This person is just good.  Don’t hate

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It was easy. I have 2 bachelors degrees and was so anxious to take the NCLEX that I rescheduled it twice. I was done in an hour and it stopped in 75 questions. It was the easiest exam I took in nursing school. I was annoyed that so much hype had circulated prior and created so much fear. 

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