I just took it. 75 Questions. I don't feel like there was one question where I was like, "I Know this!!!" I felt like I was at best giving slightly educated guesses. Every question was so hard and obscure. I was a good student in school, did ALL of the Kaplan review (which was over 2000 practice questions when it was said and done) which indicated I was more than ready.
I just feel like crying now and I wanted to cry while I was taking that test. There were questions with 4 right answers and drugs and diseases I have NEVER EVEN HEARD of ever!
The only thing that gives me hope is that since I got no what seemed to be easy questions, that I answered enough difficult ones correctly and that's why it shut off at 75.
Interestingly, I had not one singe math question, nor put in the correct order question.
I just took it. 75 Questions. I don't feel like there was one question where I was like, "I Know this!!!" I felt like I was at best giving slightly educated guesses. Every question was so hard and obscure. I was a good student in school, did ALL of the Kaplan review (which was over 2000 practice questions when it was said and done) which indicated I was more than ready.
I just feel like crying now and I wanted to cry while I was taking that test. There were questions with 4 right answers and drugs and diseases I have NEVER EVEN HEARD of ever!
The only thing that gives me hope is that since I got no what seemed to be easy questions, that I answered enough difficult ones correctly and that's why it shut off at 75.
Interestingly, I had not one singe math question, nor put in the correct order question.
Well hopefully I find out Monday or Tuesday...
I felt exactly the same way, and mine shut off at 75 as well.
My hope was that everything I had done in school and exam prep made me think I couldn't flunk in only 75 questions.................................
So, it was a great day when I got my passing results a couple days later.
I think you'll have the same experience, so I'll say: :yeah:Congratulations!
I had 75 questions and sat there when the screen went blue and said wow my whole career determined in an hour and 20 minutes. I thought of all the hours I had in clinicals, sleepless nights preparing for clinicals, classes, the infamous nursing tests, studying for those test, NO SOCIAL LIFE, etc. One hour and 20 minutes. But I passed so we all know how you feel.
I am a new member here and the same exact thing happened to me when I took the NCLEX yesterday - 75 questions, tons of meds I didn't know, questions where all the answers are correct in some way etc... I am sitting here thinking I failed because I didn't leave with the feeling that I aced it. There are so many questions I know I got wrong, especially when I went back home and looked them up, but I also know that there are many I did get right. The test started out hard and kept getting harder. (Where the heck was the questions about hand washing to prevent the spread of infection!? haha.) Plus there were loads of topics that I know very well that weren't asked! I wanted to at least prove that I knew what I knew, except that they kept asking questions I wasn't 100% sure about - frustrating!! Well it is a bit encouraging reading many of the replies here, and I am starting to feel like I have a shot of passing. I mean - we would have had to have answered incorrectly on so many questions that another 190 questions couldn't help us to pass right? Let us know when you get your results!
I think you did fine! The best part of your day should be that you are so done with that nasty Nclex. I do want to know, did you have any repeat questions on your exam & if so did you choose the same answers? I am taking my exam on Monday and I'm getting mixed answers about repeat questions. Some people say if you keep seeing the same topic then that means that you're getting those questions wrong & then some people say that's not true. They say that Nclex is testing to see if you're consistent with your answers so keep picking the same answer. I'm just unsure about that and trying not to freak out but I'm sure you understand how hard it is not to!
I got a few repeat questions, worded in different ways, and I KNOW for a fact I answered them correctly. I think NCLEX does that to see if you will doubt yourself and change your answer, and if you change your answer to something that may be patient affecting, it could deem you not safe.
I got a few repeat questions, worded in different ways, and I KNOW for a fact I answered them correctly. I think NCLEX does that to see if you will doubt yourself and change your answer, and if you change your answer to something that may be patient affecting, it could deem you not safe.
Really? That is almost too creepy. It's like Big Brother Nurse looking at your answers and saying "hmmmmm she answered it THAT way? We better not let her pass".....creepy. This whole nclex thing is creepy. Why isn't there a BRN NCLEX study guide stating exactly what we need to know. It's all so vague.
Really? That is almost too creepy. It's like Big Brother Nurse looking at your answers and saying "hmmmmm she answered it THAT way? We better not let her pass".....creepy. This whole nclex thing is creepy. Why isn't there a BRN NCLEX study guide stating exactly what we need to know. It's all so vague.
Yeah, it was creepy. I got one question, answered it, and then literally 3 questions later, got the SAME question, just replacing ONE word in the stem, with the SAME exact answers as the previous question, and of course, I chose the same answer for both.
But I KNEW that classification of drugs like the back of my hand, the side effects, when to give it, and what to watch for, so it didnt trip me up.
Yeah, it was creepy. I got one question, answered it, and then literally 3 questions later, got the SAME question, just replacing ONE word in the stem, with the SAME exact answers as the previous question, and of course, I chose the same answer for both.
But I KNEW that classification of drugs like the back of my hand, the side effects, when to give it, and what to watch for, so it didnt trip me up.
And yeah, I passed with 75 questions.
I am having such a hard time with drugs! You are freaking me out! It is the hardest thing for me. I don't know what to learn regarding drugs! It is just too much! I do ok on the Saunders questions. But I couldn't just tell you the class etc. like you said. How did you do it?
I got home this morning from taking it - it was horrible! Everything you said is just how I felt. I was a great student, did tons of Kaplan and Saunders. I took a deep breath as I hit 'next" for question 76. The comp shut off and I was anything but relieved. I cried the whole way home!
After calming down a little, and doing some googling and reading here, I am feeling confident that I passed. I won't know yet, but it sounds way too familiar to everybody else's stories! It was HARD! And I guess that was a good thing - I had no math, tons of SATA, tons of drugs and even diseases I have never heard of. I think there was one drug I knew.
Thinking positive, but am feeling better after reading that everybody has the same story as me!
I really was confident going in, and almost cocky. I felt like when I left I would know FOR SURE if I passed or failed. You really have no idea.
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I felt exactly the same way, and mine shut off at 75 as well.
My hope was that everything I had done in school and exam prep made me think I couldn't flunk in only 75 questions.................................
So, it was a great day when I got my passing results a couple days later.
I think you'll have the same experience, so I'll say: :yeah:Congratulations!