OMG, I FAILED!!!!

playas09 · Jul 7, 2014

Keep your head up and keep trying. Do you feel saunders or kaplan helped for the nclex?

Nurse2beMN · Jul 7, 2014

Try to keep calm and positive @xaldin4life. The PVT is not 100% accurate so I would try to relax for the next few days until you get your official results. If you did in fact fail, wait until you get your report from the NCLEX and study the areas that were below passing level. Set up a study plan and stick to it. Most importantly, remember that some of the best nurses failed their NCLEX the first time. As hard as it may seem right now, keep chugging along and remember that you WILL conquer the NCLEX beast. :yes:

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 7, 2014

sorry you're in this boat; when you get the official results you'll also get a performance report, which will tell you where your weak areas were.

For clarification: the format of the questions (SATA, drag/drop, etc) have no bearing on how you are doing in the exam. They are merely formatted differently from some others; they do not indicate higher level or lower level questions AT ALL. Also, if you found you were having quite a lot of pediatric questions it is most likely because you weren't answering well in peds questions....and the computer kept throwing them at you to see if you would end up above passing standard. My guess is you did not (although, it's possible you DID, eventually, by the end of the test). However, you had to be below passing standard in one or more areas in order to fail so....Look at the review of your performance, and you'll see what you need to focus on next time.

shayk16 · Jul 7, 2014

Stay positive and try to just breathe until you get those results! If you did indeed fail then you can reevaluate and maybe try another prep.

Xaldin4life RN · Jul 7, 2014

thank you everyone for the kind comments. I cant say Kpaln helped me at all, considering the fact that I hardly got ANY priority questions, which were the ones I did good on when doing kaplan! I wish they would have given me more of that instead of meds Ive never heard of before and questions that were extemely content based! I tried using the decision tree for some questions but it didnt apply to mos of them. I also got NO delegation question..*****?? That would have been a God-send!

Also, does anyone know how long it takes for me to get my CPR, so i can evaluate the areas that i under performed in?

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 8, 2014

thank you everyone for the kind comments. I cant say Kpaln helped me at all, considering the fact that I hardly got ANY priority questions, which were the ones I did good on when doing kaplan! I wish they would have given me more of that instead of meds Ive never heard of before and questions that were extemely content based! I tried using the decision tree for some questions but it didnt apply to mos of them. I also got NO delegation question..*****?? That would have been a God-send!
Also, does anyone know how long it takes for me to get my CPR, so i can evaluate the areas that i under performed in?

As I said in my last post, the NCLEX will continue to give you questions in areas you are not doing well.....that is how it determines your competency in those areas. If you "kept getting" certain types of questions (like meds, or content-based), then you weren't doing well in those areas.

It's no surprise, then, that one person's test will be "filled with" peds questions, med questions, and another will say "I had like three of each, that was IT!" in those areas. Above passing standard, no need to keep giving more questions. Below passing standard, they just keep comin'!