NCLEX pvt

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So I took my NCLEX today at 8 am. I had all 265 questions. I was a total wreck leaving. I didn't and don't feel good about my results at all. I studied with Kaplan for the past 3 months consistently. Plus using NCLEX Mastery and going over mnemonics also. I did the PVT immediately, then a few hour later also. I had the "good pop" up I guess. It said I had already had a scheduled exam but this evening I've been getting the bad pop up. It says to call cc company cars denied. I'm not sure where to even begin with studying again. I really felt confident going into it. Any suggestions? I have done questions upon questions preparing so apparently that didn't help.

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adult Oncology.

Congrats on finishing the NCLEX. My first bit of advice is to breathe. Its over. Your results are what they are and stressing will not benefit you at all at this point. You deserve a break from stressing. You stressed in nursing school, stressed studying for the NCLEX, stressed taking the NCLEX, and now you are stressing while waiting. I know it is much easier said than done. In regards to the PVT, some say its accurate, others say it is not. For me personally, it was accurate. However, in order to truly see if you get the good or bad pop up you need to put in entirely correct CC info and hit submit. Its scary, but from what I've read and from my own experience this is how you get the true good/bad pop up.

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You are right. I'm so tired of stressing! But not sure how to stop. Everytime I see anything that has anything to do with nursing (on pinterest, facebook) my stomach turns. I guess I will just give it a week and hit the books again. I don't even want to buy my quick results. Who knew failing could be so depressing. I really didn't think I would get so discouraged. Anyways, enough Debbie downer lol

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adult Oncology.

I understand the feeling. Everyone has been where you are. If you have access to the quick results just buy them, I would have if I had the option that way I would know whether or not to start studying again. Let me know if you decide too and how you did! Fingers crossed for you!

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I paid for my quick results this morning and I did indeed fail. So I guess 45 days and 200 more dollars later, I'll take it again. I'm gonna study hardcore. My test had atleast 10 EKG strips on it, and not asking the rhythm but about drugs to take and other scenarios. I was praying they would just ask for the rhythm lol I had about 5 dosage questions. Alot of psych and alot of meds (alot of cardiac meds) and who do you see first questions. Abgs also but not like here are the abgs are they acidotic or metabolic etc more in depth than that. Im mot going to lie it was HARD! I also had a few questions as soon as i clicked submit i knew i picked the wrong answer and what the right one was.I think I'm going to go hard in the cardiac area. I'm trying to determine a study plan. I don't know if I can go through the heart ache of failing again.

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the NCLEX gets revamped every 3 year. unfortunately for everyone who took it this year (moi included) it is supposedly a harder version than the one it replaces. so your assessment of how in depth it was compared to the practice questions you've been doing is spot on. The problem with the practice exams is that it is in reaction to the new format. as this is a new format, the practice questions out there are obsolete. I brought this up in my senior semester at nursing school when they told us the new nclex would be harder, but my instructors swore up and down that the materials available on the market were sufficient. I disagree. and after taking it in the summer, I def still disagree. it was very difficult, much more so than any practice exams that are currently on the market.

but my point is, it was a hard test, don't beat yourself up over it.

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Exactly. The practice tests you can almost do by dissecting the question and answers. It isn't content, well It is and isnt. The NCLEX definitely had content, in depth content. So I guess I'm going back to studying content!

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I failed NCLEX-RN a few times and havn't sat for another in about 1 year. This makes me nervous as I have been told that the test has again changed. I'm hoping to test again by years end but I would love if there were some ideas on how to get back on that horse. Thanks!!

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^ my suggestion to you is the Hurst program and Uworld. Uworld questions were hard and this NCLEX was just as difficult, IMO. I did all the questions in uworld, took notes on stuff that I never heard of in nursing school (with pen and pencil, not even using the e-notepad they have for it), I filled up a whole notebook.

Do the Hurst first because she does content mastery pretty well, there were things she explained way better than any of my instructors could've ever done at my school. After every subject in Hurst, do the questions for that subject in Uworld to get your mind thinking about doing NCLEX type questions.

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