NCLEX On hold for 1 week

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So I took my NCLEX on 9/20 and during the test they told me around question 130 or so that "I was using too much dry erase board and they had to report it to nclex". So a couple thoughts came into my head...

1- "There is a limit on the boards I'm allowed to use?"

2- How long is this hold going to take?

3- Have I passed yet?

It's been 8 days since i've taken the nclex.. and I'm starting to wonder if they forgot about me? I read somewhere online they should have the hold removed after 5 days... but.. c'mon?

Also PVT trick just says the 'hold', and I called the NCSBN after 48 business hours because I was wondering what was taking so long, and they confirmed there was a hold and did not know how long it would take.

Any thoughts?

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Specializes in cardiac.

hope they say u passed!

can u tell about question type n topic to focus? i did saunders n abt to practice free online videos n questions.

any tips? [email protected]

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

What were you writing on the boards...it may have looked like "brain dumping"...

I would contact your state boards as well as Pearson VUE.

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Hi there!

I took my exam on 9/24. My exam finished at question 75 and I have no clue if I have passed or not... I did not know about the pv trick until 24hrs after my exam... On top, the BON in the state where I applied does not have the "quick results" options. I basically don-t know what to do! I really hope that I have passed, I don-t want to go through the whole process again.

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I would write out the question... then write the options 1, 2, 3, 4 and then write whether it was an assessment or implementation if it applied, if not I would cross out the ones that I knew were wrong from the get go. Pretty much did this for the first 100 questions or so, and i would manage to squeeze around 50 questions on a board. So around 135-150 I was just like 'ah what the heck, I don't want to screw up and look at the wrong question' and got another new board at which point they said 'Just to let you know we have to tell NCLEX about your unusual number of dry erase boards'. I just kept thinking 'i can't believe there was a limit...'

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@bhumipatel2004 I used Saunders the first time I took the test, and I failed. I thought to myself 'hey I need to save my money, and use this for free'. Sign up for Kaplan, it's expensive, but this is your career you're investing into.

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I had the same problem too..I used about 4-5 erase boards and they warned me that I was using way too much dry erase boards. I was completely bothered & wasn't able to really focus on my nclex. my test results were on hold for 4 days, as soon as the quick results were available...i paid that 7.95 and found out I passed. good luck!

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Thanks, I completely empathize that feeling of 'not focusing' after they told you that you used too many dry erase boards. Unfortunately tomorrow will be day 10 of waiting for my nclex results :( (and I live in a state where you can pay for the quick results). Technically it's only been 5 business days though.

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I don't understand why that would be a problem?... And what's wrong with brain dumping... It's your own knowledge that you memorized and like me I get anxiety and nervous during tests so it's helpful to write it all out before the test and just incase I forget.. I also don't understand why your results would be on hold either

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Ps don't u get an eraser??

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I don't understand why that would be a problem?... And what's wrong with brain dumping... It's your own knowledge that you memorized and like me I get anxiety and nervous during tests so it's helpful to write it all out before the test and just incase I forget.. I also don't understand why your results would be on hold either

I believe it is a suspicion of cheating....the test proctor can contact NCSBN and invalidate test results for "brain dumping"

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Ps don't u get an eraser??

You can't erase.

Here are the rules per NCSBN (makers of NCLEX) :

https://m.ncsbn.org/1268.htm

Pearson VUE also have additional instructions as well.

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