NCLEX urban legends

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Specializes in NICU.

Okay. Here's my thinking - those of us who have taken the NCLEX should post myths we heard and their falsity. Please, please only post things you KNOW to be false. Then folks who are flippin out (as we all did) can come look and ask questions we didn't think of. Okay?

1) No math questions = failed: FALSE. I passed in 75 with no math.

2) If you get a survey at the end that's about the test, you passed, whereas if you get a survey about the test CENTER you failed: FALSE. I got the test center survey and passed.

3) If you get an "easy" question at the end, you failed: FALSE. We all know more about different things. What is an easy question to me (something about NICU) might be hard to you, and an easy question for you (something about geri, for example) would be impossible for me.

4) I got 75/265 questions, so I must have passed/failed: FALSE. See the excellent number of questions thread.

5) A certain number of people are randomly selected to receive all 265 questions, regardless of performance: FALSE. Okay, I don't actually work for the NCLEX people, but all available information indicates that this is a load of bunk.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Neuro/Trauma stepdown.
What is an easy question to me (something about NICU) might be hard to you

WHAT!? NICU questions? i should hope not!

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I haven't taken the NCLEX, but I know this one is false.

If you got the last question wrong, you've failed. No, that's not true. I see that one a lot and from the research that I've done, it's false.

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Specializes in NICU.
WHAT!? NICU questions? i should hope not!

I had something about a group of babies of varying ages with varying conditions and which one to assess first. So yep.

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5) A certain number of people are randomly selected to receive all 265 questions, regardless of performance: FALSE. Okay, I don't actually work for the NCLEX people, but all available information indicates that this is a load of bunk.

I did work for them, and you're right - it's bunk

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Okay. Here's my thinking - those of us who have taken the NCLEX should post myths we heard and their falsity. Please, please only post things you KNOW to be false. Then folks who are flippin out (as we all did) can come look and ask questions we didn't think of. Okay?

I would add that no certain state has a harder or easier exam than any other state. Candidates used to call in all the time saying they heard such-n-such state had the hardest exam, or such-n-such state had the easiest exam.

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Battlestar galactica got me through the beginning of my second semester.

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Another one is, if you get a SATA question as your last question ...that means you passed ...i don't think so, even though i did.

my best friend, her very FIRST question was a SATA....i dont think it has anything to do with passing/failing

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