Just to give an update here is the latest news about NCLEX this might affect the passing standard.
This post is just to give an information for those who are planning to take NCLEX in future.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (NCSBN®) voted on Dec. 10, 2009, to raise the passing standard for the NCLEX-RN® Examination (the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses). The new passing standard is -0.16 logits on the NCLEX-RN logistic scale, 0.05 logits higher than the previous standard of -0.21. The new passing standard will take effect on April 1, 2010, in conjunction with the "2010 NCLEX-RN® Test Plan."
After consideration of all available information, the NCSBN Board of Directors determined that safe and effective entry-level RN practice requires a greater level of knowledge, skills, and abilities than was required in 2007, when NCSBN implemented the current standard. The passing standard was increased in response to changes in U.S. health care delivery and nursing practice that have resulted in the greater acuity of clients seen by entry-level RNs.
The Board of Directors used multiple sources of information to guide its evaluation and discussion regarding the change in passing standard. As part of this process, NCSBN convened an expert panel of nine nurses to perform a criterion-referenced standard setting procedure. The panel's findings supported the creation of a higher passing standard. NCSBN also considered the results of national surveys of nursing professionals including nursing educators, directors of nursing in acute care settings and administrators of long-term care facilities.
I PASSED!!!! got the results in 24 hours on the state board web site! It was the hardest test i had ever taken in my life. HESSI was a cake walk compared to that tragic mess of the NCLEX but i passed and am an RN now!
I PASSED!!!! got the results in 24 hours on the state board web site! It was the hardest test i had ever taken in my life. HESSI was a cake walk compared to that tragic mess of the NCLEX but i passed and am an RN now!
how hard?? what are the questions that was given to you??
I'm sure for everyone the test will be different. One of the things i had noticed over and over were priority questions..or "what would you do first" type situations. It's something you simply can't study for and know the answers but studying the labs and diagnosis might help out a bit in those situations. The man at the pearson desk told me every person who walked out of the room said either "I don't know if I passed" or " I know I failed". No one walks out with the confidence of " I know I passed this" I guess it's a good thing to say if your going for your license, your getting tested to make sure you know your stuff.
Remember that 15 of the questions are not scored (for RN's--not sure of the number for the LPN's anymore) so when you say to yourself...I just don't know this, perhaps becasue it's one of those questions.
I used the saunders NCLEX review guide and our class has a mandaotry 3 day review course during our last quarter. Sadly i didn't dedicate tons of time towards the NCLEX but i had been and LPN for 21 years and lots of experrience in Nursing which really helped.
Took the exam twice, once before the change and once after. Personally, I didn't see the difference and I actually think the second time (post-change) was easier. If you study well and prepare yourself for it mentally and emotionally, YOU WILL BE FINE. And hey, if its your first time taking it (unlike me), you won't know how easy it was before the change so don't worry about it. Just study like you would because you already know its a difficult test.
The reason nobody walks out confident from the exam is because of the way computer-adjusted testing works. You keep getting harder and harder questions until you're getting 50% of them wrong. That's when the test shuts off. So you feel like you're missing a lot of questions (you are) but you are also getting enough of the higher level questions right to pass.
Sadly smugirl, not everyone who studies hard and dedicated the time and effort passes on the first try. We are all nervous and this is a life altering event for every one of us. The difference between the test before April 1st and after is not the questions but the percentage calculated that is needed to pass. The questions are always changing. Perhaps the second test was easier than the first for you because you studied harder or more, or even were just overall more mentally prepared for it.
any advice
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I PASSED!!!! got the results in 24 hours on the state board web site! It was the hardest test i had ever taken in my life. HESSI was a cake walk compared to that tragic mess of the NCLEX but i passed and am an RN now!