Nclex is making me crazy

[kimmi2011]

I never in a million years thought I'd be so scared to take my Nclex. I've been studying for 2 weeks now, and I test in 2 weeks from tomorrow. All I'm doing is questions. I'm at around 2300 questions so far. That's all I do is test after test. I'm using ATI and I got a 66% on the Kaplan strategy Nclex exam. I just started using my friends Saunders CD yesterday. Oh, and I'm reviewing my Mosby Med cards. I graduated at the top of my class, so I did well in school. Why am I stressing like this? Please, someone tell me that it's NOT as bad as I believe that it will be. lol PLEASE!! haha I never get scared for tests, so I'm not quite sure why I'm feeling this way!

[doublepike]

Try not to let the test psych you out. If you have been studying hard and did well in school chances are it will be ok. I finished my nursing program near the top of my class in December and didn't graduate (and therefore couldn't take NCLEX -- long story) until May. My advisor kept reminding me of my smaller chances of passing on the first time because I had to wait so long to take it. Her telling me this got in my head and made me feel like I would surely fail. Because of that and a dream job on the line I have never been more nervous for anything!! Maybe it was good because it made me study like crazy. In the end I finished NCLEX with 75 questions and got the good pop up (official results tomorrow!).

Remember that you are going in to take another nursing exam. Maybe you won't know the answer to every question, but the topics will be familiar and answering NCLEX type questions will be familiar. You can do this!! Also, I stopped reading on this forum a couple days before my exam because it made me ever more nervous when I would see someone who was not successful. I think it helped to keep me thinking positive. Good luck and hang in there!

[caliotter3]

Good luck.