NCLEX-PN 205q.. pass/fail?

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I took the NCLEX-PN yesterday in IL and I'm beating myself up so badly over it... i went all the way to 205 :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

i had absolutely NO hotspot ?s or drag&order

VERY LITTLE ob/peds, maybe a couple ?s each tops,

maybe a handful of med/I&O ?s (and i feel confident in that area, medical math is not hard to me), but a TON of pharmacology questions .. a substantial amount of SATA...

and pretty much everything else situation/priority "which client would you see first"... SO many of those :(

the way the NCLEX was explained to me by my review class instructor was that it preys on your weaknesses. supposedly if it gives you a ? in peds and you get it wrong, you will get another and so forth, causing you to be assaulted by a test that is in majority on your weakness?

i'm also scared because i never got any hotspot or drag&order, which makes me wonder if that's reserved for a higher difficulty level i never achieved?

i am SO scared especially because i know that the passing standards went up april of this year, but no one seems to know theoretically how far they've gone up. i took an ATI predictor calibrated to the OLD NLCEX, that gave me a 95% pass probability, when I only got question for question 65% of the questions correct... as far as i know there WAS NO predictor yet for the new NCLEX :(

basically what i'm asking is i've only read a couple posts of people saying they or someone else they know passed at 205q..... but those were in 2007.

i'm also reading a lot of current stories here with people saying they failed at 205 the first time, and passed now with only 85q.

has anybody or anybody you know passed AFTER april of 2008 with 205q? ? ? :crying2: :crying2: :crying2: :sniff:

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It can go either way! Just pray about it and it wil be fine!

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Just can't predict, you can pass or fail. Hang in there and good luck

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Specializes in medical surgical nursing, MAN-MSN.

its just a numbers and the verdict is still on the computer assessment whether you are above or below the pasing standard. its either pass or fail only. goodluck!

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Specializes in ER.

I am awaiting test results as well. This is the best advise I have received and it comes from my very smart 10year old daughter who is wise beyond her years.

After disscusing the test with her I asked what am I going to do if I did not pass. Her advise "You will study and take it again!" simple yet true. It actually made me feel better. Hope it helps you too.

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that's what everyone says :( it doesn't simplify the blow :(

it just makes it that much more daunting :(

90 days is a lot of time to have to wait for me, especially with things going south because of the way the place is run at my cna job :(

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also i have yet to find it, if anyone can tell me how to find spec ific states nclex pass rates please let me know, i'm looking for IL,

but i looked up pass rates and thanks to ncsbn raising the bar for the nclex-pn, pass rates have already gone down 4% in the first quarter of the year that the standards have changed.

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I Just Checked And I Passed!

I'm so glad these boards exist to help cushion the insanity of waiting for results!

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Congrats

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I Just Checked And I Passed!

I'm so glad these boards exist to help cushion the insanity of waiting for results!

CONGRATS!!!!!:nurse::nurse::nurse::nurse:

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Specializes in ER.

Congrats:yeah::yeah::monkeydance::monkeydance::clpty:Found out I passed too! Do you have a nurse job lined up anywhere?

TraciRN

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I Just Checked And I Passed!

I'm so glad these boards exist to help cushion the insanity of waiting for results!

Congrads!!! party0023.gif

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