NCLEX-RN - 265 questions - PVT

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Hello all,

Took the NCLEX today in Raleigh, NC

Was there a total of 5 and a half hours and answered 265 quesitons.

I have learned from Kaplan and forums that the last question is crucial.

My last question which was a higher level, select all that apply question that I am almost positive that I got right. (Even if I had not I heard that if the last question was high level and you got it wrong your still good to go but that if it was basic and u got it wrong you would have to have gotten the previous 60 questions ALL correct [which sounds nearly impossible]).

I just did the re-registration trick and this is what I got:

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Can anyone please offer advice/assurance/opinions that may give me some guidance in this difficult time?

Thank you all, I am so grateful for you all on this forum!

I too took the the NCLEX today with 265 questions and took almost the full 6 hours. I also got this pop up so I am hoping that I passed as well.

Looks like we're in the same boat - please keep me posted! I am checking my states BON in hopes they will post my license information early but if not I am paying the money and getting my 48 hr results in the morning.

I ended up taking almost 6 hours - to be honest the last 20 minutes i laid back in my chair and tried to relax and just stared at that last select all - knowing my answer could mean pass/fail.

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I cannot wait to read that message when I take my nclex........I will cry lol

It will give you hope for sure. I've cried a lot in the last few days. Staying positive prior to the test is equally as challanging - I reccomend taking it as early as possible post-graduation, I waited around because of summer plans and because I didn't want the stress but it created more stress and there is a lot riding on my pass//fail...financial and career....my new job will start Monday so the weight of the exam overpowered my self-confidence.

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No - computer adapted testing is set up to give you questions until it is 95% sure that you are within passing level. If you prove yourself within 75 questions (or disprove yourself - you will see this evidenced by lower level questions) then the computer will cut off and make up its mind, if it is not entirely accurate (but you are still above level in questions) it will continue to give you questions in hopes of you proving to it that you are constant and competent in your responses. In reality, when the computer continues to give you questions it is not a bad sign - it is good because it is giving you a chance to prove yourself and your answer consistency.

State should not matter.

Posting a percentage is totally misleading. There is no "percentage" of right or wrong, you have to get more right than wrong and that's how the computer tells. It's a complex algorithm that really no one but the programmer knows. Going by the "95% sure" is way off base. If you get the full 265 questions that means that you bombed the first 15 and were forced to do the rest to prove the 95%. If you do the first 75 and it shuts off, that means that in the first batch you got more right than wrong so it was satisfied that you were safe. If you did the full 265 you confused the computer through the entire test so it ended at the maximum amount of questions. The number of questions doesn't vary by state, it all depends on you and if you can convince the computer that you are safe within 75-265 questions. The last question wrong/right doesn't determine pass or fail either.
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Congratulations!

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Posting a percentage is totally misleading. There is no "percentage" of right or wrong, you have to get more right than wrong and that's how the computer tells. It's a complex algorithm that really no one but the programmer knows. Going by the "95% sure" is way off base. If you get the full 265 questions that means that you bombed the first 15 and were forced to do the rest to prove the 95%. If you do the first 75 and it shuts off, that means that in the first batch you got more right than wrong so it was satisfied that you were safe. If you did the full 265 you confused the computer through the entire test so it ended at the maximum amount of questions. The number of questions doesn't vary by state, it all depends on you and if you can convince the computer that you are safe within 75-265 questions. The last question wrong/right doesn't determine pass or fail either.

This is what the national council has published.

https://www.ncsbn.org/2936.htm

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By saying 95% I did not mean 95% correct only but rather that there is a 95% certainty that the individual testing is above level in answering exam questions.

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Specializes in Med surg.

Congrats! It's such a good feeling isin't it? :w00t:

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
Because when you get it, at first you are ecstatic, and then soon after doubt starts to creep in and you think that you might be that one person that it ends up being a false positive for, lol. That's how I felt yesterday. I took the test for 6 hours, got the pop up (and still am), however I won't feel completely at ease until I see my name on the BON website.

No one has ever gotten the popup and failed. Still begs the question: Why do people still doubt the PVT?? SHM!! :p

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Easier said than done in that hell of 48 hours post-exam, paco....lol....if PVT one day miraculously mistakes a score people might just be coming for you :)

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UPDATE: ******* I PASSED! Kaylee A. Kopp, RN, BSN.

Thank you all!

Stay hopeful!

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Got it ok....I read it as 95% correct, and I was thinking "Either she/he's insane" or "I'm gonna fail, that's crazy"

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UPDATE: ******* I PASSED! Kaylee A. Kopp, RN, BSN.

Thank you all!

Stay hopeful!

WOOOOO! What state are you in? You know already? Is it on the BON?

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