Panic Attack

ManyRN2B · Jul 8, 2005

You sound like everyone after they take the NCLEX. Try and do something to take your mind off it. I'm sure you did fine!! Most people with 75 questions passes.

Purple1976 · Jul 8, 2005

thanks for the positive words of encouragement! i realy appreciate it! i have to keep telling myself to "think positive" "the test is all over with now" "it's on god's hands" and "it's only one test" ....... but then...oh that negativity just loves to creep in on ya! anyhow! thanks alot though for the kind thoughts!! much appreciated! :)

christvs, DNP, RN, NP · Jul 8, 2005

whoa! took the nclex today.....what a crazy experience! i stated having major anxiety and felt like i was gonna hurl for the entire test...in fact the first ten minutes the screen was getting blurry and i had to keep telling myself to focus! i thought it was veeeeery hard. i kept getting all of these random absure questions of which i had no idea about...couldn't even take a educated guess! all of my critical thinging became critical guessing! i studied a ton for this test and felt like there is no way i could have studied for this one. i kept getting hit with neuro questions, which wasn't emphasized much at all in nursing school. i kept praying for math ( i usually nail those!) ...then all of a sudden wham the computer shits off at 75 questions. i was like...nooo.....i can do better than that!!! i was even more shocked to get up and realize that it had only taken me an hour. felt like i blew the test off somehow....but i know i honestly tried. i came home and raced through my books to find answers to questions that i'd gotten wrong....now realizing i missed alot of really easy ones! i'm feelling fairly confident that i failed, even though i'm trying to be optomistic about the whole thing. my stomache has been in knots all day and my ocd has kicked into full gear causing repeated hits to pearson vue and the bon (yeah, yeah, i know bout the whole 48 hours thing, i am just thinking maybe they screwed up and it will be posted early....foolish thinking). oh well.....i'll just have to wait and see.....thanks for letting me vent....congrats to all who passed and i'll keep you all posted!

i think you did fine cuz you sound just like me when i took nclex(lst week)! i got wicked tough questions too & felt like i guessed on most of them & it shut off once i finished #75 too-tough questions & 75= very good signs tht you were successful on it! :)

-christine

lisa122 · Jul 8, 2005

whoa! took the nclex today.....what a crazy experience! i stated having major anxiety and felt like i was gonna hurl for the entire test...in fact the first ten minutes the screen was getting blurry and i had to keep telling myself to focus! i thought it was veeeeery hard. i kept getting all of these random absure questions of which i had no idea about...couldn't even take a educated guess! all of my critical thinging became critical guessing! i studied a ton for this test and felt like there is no way i could have studied for this one. i kept getting hit with neuro questions, which wasn't emphasized much at all in nursing school. i kept praying for math ( i usually nail those!) ...then all of a sudden wham the computer shits off at 75 questions. i was like...nooo.....i can do better than that!!! i was even more shocked to get up and realize that it had only taken me an hour. felt like i blew the test off somehow....but i know i honestly tried. i came home and raced through my books to find answers to questions that i'd gotten wrong....now realizing i missed alot of really easy ones! i'm feelling fairly confident that i failed, even though i'm trying to be optomistic about the whole thing. my stomache has been in knots all day and my ocd has kicked into full gear causing repeated hits to pearson vue and the bon (yeah, yeah, i know bout the whole 48 hours thing, i am just thinking maybe they screwed up and it will be posted early....foolish thinking). oh well.....i'll just have to wait and see.....thanks for letting me vent....congrats to all who passed and i'll keep you all posted!

i know exactly how you feel, i took the nclex today as well. i feel worse now than i did going into it, major anxiety over whether or not i passed. the computer shut off at 75 questions for me and i freaked out i think it would have been better to have more questions to give me more of a chance. although, i am trying to be optimistic. everyone so far that i graduated with that had 75 questions has passed...best of luck to you!!

Nurse2B2005 · Jul 8, 2005

whoa! took the nclex today.....what a crazy experience! i stated having major anxiety and felt like i was gonna hurl for the entire test...in fact the first ten minutes the screen was getting blurry and i had to keep telling myself to focus! i thought it was veeeeery hard. i kept getting all of these random absure questions of which i had no idea about...couldn't even take a educated guess! all of my critical thinging became critical guessing! i studied a ton for this test and felt like there is no way i could have studied for this one. i kept getting hit with neuro questions, which wasn't emphasized much at all in nursing school. i kept praying for math ( i usually nail those!) ...then all of a sudden wham the computer shits off at 75 questions. i was like...nooo.....i can do better than that!!! i was even more shocked to get up and realize that it had only taken me an hour. felt like i blew the test off somehow....but i know i honestly tried. i came home and raced through my books to find answers to questions that i'd gotten wrong....now realizing i missed alot of really easy ones! i'm feelling fairly confident that i failed, even though i'm trying to be optomistic about the whole thing. my stomache has been in knots all day and my ocd has kicked into full gear causing repeated hits to pearson vue and the bon (yeah, yeah, i know bout the whole 48 hours thing, i am just thinking maybe they screwed up and it will be posted early....foolish thinking). oh well.....i'll just have to wait and see.....thanks for letting me vent....congrats to all who passed and i'll keep you all posted!

wow, this post sounds exactly like something i would have just written. i too, took it today (shut off at 75), and honestly, i won't be surprised if i failed. i feel like when i got home to look things up, the questions were so hard that there wasn't a "true" textbook answer to even look up. i feel like i guessed more often than not, and i don't think this test was indicative of how i really would perform as a true graduate nurse. my friend told me that the nclex isn't meant for me to get a lot of answers right - in fact, i will get a lot of answers wrong, however, it's hard to feel better when i know i only answered 6 or 7 correctly that i know of. guess i'll just have to sit tight and see now at this point. good luck to you!

Purple1976 · Jul 8, 2005

Oh thank God, I'm not the only one feeling this way! To all who took it today, I'll pray for all of you! Let me know how you did! I promise to reveal my results, pass or fail! This waiting is worse than I thought it would be!

Hugs, Michelle

ZZTopRN, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2005

Oh thank God, I'm not the only one feeling this way! To all who took it today, I'll pray for all of you! Let me know how you did! I promise to reveal my results, pass or fail! This waiting is worse than I thought it would be!
Hugs, Michelle

All the posts are true. Everybody feels the same. The harder they are, the better (not for our psyche, that's for sure). I felt confident going in and in about 5 minutes I really started to panic. When that happens to me, I can't remember what is happening. All I remember is a lot of priority questions. Suzanne4 reassured me this was a good sign. I could only remember one question with the word hypophysectomy. Couldn't remember the whole question ever. So I couldn't go home and look up anything. However, I passed. Like everyone says the same thing, they all thought they failed. Take heart!

lifeisgood · Jul 8, 2005

All the posts are true. Everybody feels the same. The harder they are, the better (not for our psyche, that's for sure). I felt confident going in and in about 5 minutes I really started to panic. When that happens to me, I can't remember what is happening. All I remember is a lot of priority questions. Suzanne4 reassured me this was a good sign. I could only remember one question with the word hypophysectomy. Couldn't remember the whole question ever. So I couldn't go home and look up anything. However, I passed. Like everyone says the same thing, they all thought they failed. Take heart!

Okay, I'm seeing everyone passing after 75 questions...what about 102 questions????

Mommy2Maddy · Jul 8, 2005

Oh thank God, I'm not the only one feeling this way! To all who took it today, I'll pray for all of you! Let me know how you did! I promise to reveal my results, pass or fail! This waiting is worse than I thought it would be!
Hugs, Michelle

Michelle trust me when I tell you that EVERYONE feels exactly the same as you did after they take the NCLEX (at least us normal people anyway). I'm sure you did fine, but remember that no matter what the outcome you gave it 110% and that's all you can do. Keep your head up and be proud of yourself no matter what! Keep us posted and good luck!

Brandi :)

cantwait2bRN · Jul 8, 2005

I know exactly how you feel!!! i took the NCLEX-RN wednesday and i was just a total wreck!! :crying2: i started having blurred vision and palpitations...it was just the worst experience of my life nothing in the world could really have prepared me for this Awful dreadful test they call nclex. uuuggghhh just a horrible feeling. i practically critical guessed on most of the questions and maybe 100% knew 10 or 15 of the questions and the worst part of it all was that I got 198!! i was expecting to get only 75 and every question after that was just the worst!! i felt so horrible, that test was unbelievably hard. =*( i cried forever after that...to make matters even worse i live in california and retrieving the results has no guaranteed date. well sorry buti just had to vent that out...crossing fingers!!!! good luck to u!!! let me know when u pass

ZZTopRN, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2005

Okay, I'm seeing everyone passing after 75 questions...what about 102 questions????

I was so nervous I didn't even think about the number of questions until after I took the test. I had my calculator on all the time and was getting so frustrated all I wanted to do was get out of there. I was there for FOUR hours so I must have gotten the whole 265. Who knows.

Suzanne4 said every nurse gets 50 % of the questions right and 50% of the questions wrong. That is the way it is set up. So you could go on and get a lot of questions right but until you get an equal number wrong, that's when the computer shuts off. Tell me the logic in that!