NCLEX PN Nerves, Bad Result from Pearson Vue Trick :(

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Today was the big day to take my boards. I'm usually a great tester because I was taught how to pick apart the questions, but that was absolutely no help on the NCLEX. I had a lot of meds I did not know about and a lot of teaching. I had to take all 205 questions and did the Pearson Vue "trick" which sends me to the credit card page. Now I've completely lost all hope that I've passed and am heartbroken. Its such a disappointment to fail (of course). I've been reading posting after post about the trick always working so I guess the next step is to get better study material :crying2: Is there a waiting period before you can retest? What are good study materials?

-SweetAmber lacking hope

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Specializes in Ambulatory (Urgent care) & Home Health.

So sorry Love. To be honest with you nothing really prepared me for that test (I took it saturday) however I used saunders and exam cram-pn but still I felt like I didnt know any of those questions. Maybe consider taking a review class, thats what i did and i think it helped the most. Good luck in the future!

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Hi there, what study materials were you using?

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I was using my medication cards from clinicals and UpwardMobility NCLEX-PN which has hundards of practice questions with rationales and a testing feature which mocks the NCLEX. I was using the UpwardMobility because I was working double and it was an app I could use on my phone on the go. I have looked at Sanders and Kaplan, but another couple hundred dollars was not in my budget. I guess I should have made it work since I'll be retesting again and spending another $200 :(

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Specializes in Ambulatory (Urgent care) & Home Health.

where do you live? u can have my saunders and exam cram-pn.

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SweetAmber, private message me your number. I have something to help you out with :)

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Blowingbubbles, I live in Wisconsin. I was just looking at Saunders and Kaplan books on Amazon...I'm even more discouraged now that I have to wait 45 days to retest and I just bought a house hoping I would become a nurse very soon. The day just keeps getting worse!

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Sorry srangel I can not send private messages because I am too new to the site.

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Yea Im pretty new here to. Heres my email [email protected] email me your number so I can call you.

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Hello SweetAmber,

I from Louisiana, and I took my RN boards yesterday (4-28-11) too at 8 am. When I got home, I stumbled upon this "trick" tip on the internet. I don't even know how that happened, but I wish that it didn't. I tried it SEVERAL times, and it still brings my to the credit card page. I pray that I didn't fail. I had 76 questions, and most were teaching questions. I felt good when I left the testing center, but now I don't b/c of this trick. But on a good note all my friends (7 total) that had 75 questions did pass. So, maybe there's a glimmer of hope for me. Please, I hope you post if you failed or not, and I will do the same. That way ppl will know if this "trick" is reliable, b/c I found maybe 2 false fails and all the rest was "good" pop ups. I am having an anxiety attack much like you. I pray that we both passed! So, again, please let me know.

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I just did my Pearson Vue "unoffical" results and I did fail. :( I hope for your sake the trick is wrong, but I guess at least it prepared me for the worst. My breakdown was Wednesday and I'm already over it and ready to prepare for my next test. I hope 45 days goes quickly.

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Sorry to hear the bad news :( I think someone already mentioned saunders and exam cram. I highly recommend both.

One thing my instructor at my school told my class in order to prepare for the nclex exam was to do at least 50 practice questions a day. It helped me out.

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