Passed NCLEX PN in 110 Questions!

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Hello everyone. I just passed my NCLEX PN and wanted to encourage everyone and share my story a little. I graduated a couple of months go from my nursing school and have taken this exam twice already. The first time I did UWorld although it's not bad I think I needed more review and learn to answer NCLCEX style question. So this third time around I bought NCSBN and got the 5 week course as well as Mark Klemik notes. I did all the question banks and got through a lot of the reading in the content and I have to say the NCSBN content was the same as the NCLEX content and what type of diseases/conditions they ask you about. On the NCSBN questions I was at first making in the 50s then went up to 60-80s. Apart from that, I think the main thing that helped me pass is God. The past couple of months I had depression, I felt traumatized cause I felt stuck and life wasn't moving forward and there was so much I wanted to do and accomplish but this exam held me back for the longest time so I have to say God is the only one who kept me sane and gave me the strength I needed and I just had so much going on in life. I was praying every day & one day had asked God to show me a sign if I will pass and the same night I had a dream that I had passed my exam, I couldn't believe it. I would spend anywhere from 10-14 hours a day studying, locked in my room. The day of the exam I felt confident cause I had learned so much and had faith God will see me through. Doing the exam, I felt for sure I failed cause nothing I studied came on the exam(apart from maybe 3-4 questions) I was basically guessing and using my own knowledge to answer the questions. It stopped me at question 110. I left the exam center feeling down and like a failure. I got into my car and just cried and thought to myself "failing for the 3rd time, I might as well change careers" It was devastating. I got very negative and just couldn't believe after all the studying and hard work, I failed again. I came home and did not have the courage to do the PVT trick, I was about to do it and filled in my card details but couldn't find the courage to click "submit". The next day I asked my friend to do it for me and I told him don't tell me the results I probably already know, he smiled and said "what do you think? you failed?" I didn't understand him then he told me I had passed! I had gotten the good pop up! It was UNBELIEVABLE! A few hours later I saw my license active on the BON website!! I was in tears and thanking God for His mercies and feeling bad for not believing in Him even though God had shown me I will pass. If anyone of you guys are going through this I want to say PLEASE don't GIVE UP! It may look like the end of the world but I promise as long as you don't give up and have faith in God you can do it! I am now a very happy & proud nurse! Good luck to anyone taking their exam!