Nclex

[fando]

Are there States that will allow me to challenge the NCLEX although I did not pass the HESI exit exams?

[suzanne4, RN]

You cannot challenge the NCLEX exam; there is no way for you to do that. Your school is not releasing your transcripts and without a completed set of transcripts submitted to a BON, they will be unable to grant you permission for licensure and to test for the NCLEX-RN exam. In order for one to be given permission to sit for the that exam, it means that they meet the requirements for licensure for that specific state, and all that is needed to be done is to write the exam. Each and every state requires that a completed set of transcripts be sent to them.

You can check with your school to see if they will make you eligible for the PN exam, but that also depends on them as well as if your BON will permit it. A majority of states are no longer permitting one to test for the LPN if they did not actually complete an LPN program.

I wish that you would have known about this site before you wrote the Exit HESI for the third time, more than likely we could have gotten you thru that exam. But I am sure that it was a well-known fact of your school that you had the three attempts at that exam. Same way that there are three attempts at passing the required medication exam, or one is dropped from the program; or that there are some states that only give three tries at the NCLEX-RN or they make you complete nursing school again before they will grant permission for one to test.

Best of luck to you.