Passed 1st time thank GOD

Published Jan 10, 2014

5 Posts

Ok I have been meaning to make this post for a while now but I've been busy every since I PASSED!!! I apologize a head of time for any grammar errors. Ok here's my NCLEX journey story. I graduated the end of September. I took a Kaplan coorifice the week after classed ended. The next week was graduation and I was having a graduation party so I didn't really start studying until the week after graduation. I did 5o questions on Kaplan Q-Bank a day. I always told myself today I'm going to try to do a 100 questions because I didn't feel like I was doing enough. But I never did more than 50 questions. The first couple of week when I started out studying I check this site a lot to look at testimonies also the ncsbn site I felt like I was reading other peoples experiences more than I was studying so I stop getting on those sites as often. I was studying but I haven't picked my test date yet. My friend took hers and passed during this time so I decided to go ahead and schedule mine the day I said I originally wanted to take it because it was at 2pm was full so I had to pick another day. I went to the store came back home checked the website and seen that a 2pm appointment had became available for the week before the day I wanted to take I went ahead and scheduled for that day because at least that was the time I wanted but that only gave me three solid weeks to study. I wanted to have four but I had been studying 50 questions a day but I just kept feeling like that wasn't enough. My friend suggested getting the ncsbn questions for 3 weeks and I did they questions ended two days before my test and my Kaplan questions ended the day before. I only did the questions from ncsbn not the content and I finishes them the week before my test so I went back and finished my Kaplan Q-Bank. I only did Q-trainers 1-4 and I never went back and reviewed them. But I did all the q-bank questions and ncsbn questions and I read every rationale. For me I had to do the questions in study mode because I found myself not wanting to go back and review them after I finished or it took to much time up doing it in test mode and going back to review later. I also brought the PDA book because everybody says its a good book but to be honest I didn't use it because I didn't have time. The day before my test I started going over that study guide that's going round this site it was good a helping with ways to remember precautions and positions. Also when I was looking at this site I seen a lot of people saying they said the st Cupertino prayer before the test and I said it I see one more person say that than I'm going to say that prayer too well I seen one more person say it. So the day of my test I woke up and said its a good day to pass with a smile on my face. I didn't tell anyone I was taking my test because I didn't want the pressure of everybody knowing if I failed having to tell everybody I failed. I left to go to my test stop to get something to eat an than went to the testing center. I said the st Cupertino prayer before I got out of the car. Went in the testing center with a smile tried to keep a positive attitude sat down to take my test at 1:45 my test I think I got my 1st SATA at question 22 I only had 5 or 6 SATA a drag and drop and 2 dosage questions. My test went past 75 questions I didn't worry i was trying to do 160 question in 4hr because that I always used all my time on my hesi so I figured if I could do 160 in for hrs than I should be able to do 100 in hr not run out of time so I was rush through to get to 160 once i got there I tried to slow down but every question I got I told myself I'm still in this after 160 I couldn't take no more I started praying and asking god to shut the test off I remember wanting to get up and get just walk out of there not caring if the test was over or not. My test shut off around 165-170 questions I thought i failed because I never heard of anybody getting this amount of questions and passing. Went home I didn't do the trick because I was to scared I even wrote a post on here seeing if anybody passed with this amount of questions something I said I wouldn't do. After 4 days of not being able to take it any more I check my application and found out I passed but I was still in denial so I called the BON and they confirmed I PASSED!!!!!!!!!! I'm Offically and RN after a long journey. When its all said and done I would suggest you use Kaplan and if your like me and think your not remembering anything or don't know anything you really know more than you think. Also pray I prayed and prayed and pray some more I went into my test with nobody but me and god and he brought me through to all of those thinking you need to tell everybody so they can pray for you,u really don't you can pray for yourself and you never know who's praying against you. I also so a lot of people on here saying they can't find a job months after they have took the test idk it might just be the city they live in but don't be just applying for jobs at hospitals thinking your going to get in right away apply for nursing homes I called back for every nursing home I applied to the next week after I passed my test and I make more money at the nursing home than the hospital was offering me. So that's my story I know it's long but if anyone needs anymore advice feel free to comment.