NCLEX help!

[karenheir]

Hi can anyone please help me?

I took my NCLEX recently and I stopped at 90 questions. I only had 1 math questions and the first 30 to 40 questions were hard but I tried my best to answer them. On the same day when I came home I tried the pearson trick and it didn't work and me being stupid even paid 200$. Now I am so freaking out I paid the money and my test stopped at 90 questions does this means I failed the test. I didn't have much SATA questions only had 7 something majority of the questions were from med surge. Please help me? What does the 90 question means? failed? Pearson accepted my card and I read this is huge sign that I failed? Please help I have been crying since I took my test cause I don't know what else to do besides wait for my results.

[Cricket183, BSN, RN]

At this point there is nothing else to do but take a big breath, calm down and wait for your results. Crying, freaking out, obsessing will not change the outcome. What's done is done. Try to distract yourself with things you enjoy until the results are in. Almost everyone feels horrible after NCLEX. I told myself if it shut off at 75 that that was a good sign. When it did, I convinced myself I failed it so bad that they knew in 75 questions I shouldn't be a nurse! We didn't have the Pearson trick back then, you just had to wait until they issued your RN license. I remember finding out the day it was issued (I was in new grad orientation) whooping and hollering! And feeling quite silly for all the unnecessary stress I had caused myself in the previous week. If you passed, you'll probably feel the same way. And if you did not pass, chalk it up as a learning experience and use it as motivation to succeed next time.

[karenheir]

This makes me feel little better, yeah its stressful and you are right I can't change anything now whats done is done but thank you so much for the reply. I am still waiting for letter, hopefully I get it by next week. :)