Nclex

I sort of feel the same way. I finished the exam in 55 minutes and felt it was not as bad as I was lead to believe. A few of my classmates did fail it, but for the most part everyone else passed and felt the tests in nursing school were harder. Just my opinion.

Wow! Are you guys just extremely confident before going into the test or what is the deal? I am in nursing school right know and everything seems dramatic. What test taking techniques did you guys use while you were still in nursing school. I've used the whole entire weekend contemplating what is the mind set of nursing school. Is it just a mind game within yourself? I would love a response. Congrats guys! =)

congrats!

It all depends on what databank NCLEX is using that particular day. The questions you get are not the same questions others get, or the degree of difficulty. I took the NCLEX last month and i thought it was very difficult...lots of critical thinking, questions on meds i had never heard of...and I consider myself to be a fairly smart individual. I didnt coast through nursing school, but i didnt exactly break my back either.

I passed the exam at 75 questions, but each and every question took lots and lots of thinking...

I took the exam at the same time another colleague of mine took hers, and she also considered it very difficult.

So...it all depends...you really can't go by others' experience. You just gotta pray that you get the easier set of questions...

I found NCLEX to be a weird experience. It is true, there is really no preparation for such an exam...the questions are a genre of it's own. When I left there, the first thing that came to my head was that there was no amount of preparation for such an exam, and if I had failed it, I literally not have a solution of what to do to pass it the next time, because I gave it my all. I took NCLEX-PN last June, took 40 minutes to answer the minmum amount of questions, but it was sort of anticlimatic. It was hard for me, I didn't know all of the answers, but I used the skills from my stragedy book to answer the questions I didn't know. In fact, I looked at some answers and said "You look so RIDICULOUS that this MUST be what they want to hear...I'd NEVER do this". I guess that was what they wanted...passed with minimum questions.

I took my LPN Boards, as we called them then, 27 years ago. To be perfectly honest, I never opened a book after I finished school. I felt that by then, either I knew the material or I didn't. And no amount of studying was going to make me do a better job on the test, because, how can you study a year's worth of knowledge in such a short time. LPN school was hard for me when I first started, very hard, but each 10 week section seemed to build on each other as I went along. The only award I ever recieved in school, was in LPN school, Most Improved Student. The first 10 weeks, I had a 74.75 average, you needed a 75 average to stay in school. When I graduated, my average was in the 90's. I always tell people I got to be a nurse because of one half of a point, meaning if it was 74.25, I would have been out of there. Everyone is different, but I feel so bad for some of the posters here. I can read the pain and nervousness in their posts. I really think they should relax a bit, try to be calm. We took our test in April 1980, no computers back then. Quick results? No such thing. I took the test in April, waited until mid July, to find out if i passed. So please relax, try to be calm, nerves can make a very intelligent student so nervous that they don't do as well as they could.