Pins and needles - 75 questions

Miltonrn · Jun 17, 2005

Okay I am really weirded out! My NCLEX shut off at 75 questions this morning. I felt confident with alot of the questions and other I took an educated guess on. I had a variety of questions mental health, pharm, OB, priority question! I just don't know!
I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Hey,

You're not alone... I had 75 this AM with priority, math, and priority questions gallor. I too felt well prepaired with some questions very challenging and required masive critical thinking.

I understand your feelings of uncertainty.

Lis

vcannon · Jun 17, 2005

Hey,
You're not alone... I had 75 this AM with priority, math, and priority questions gallor. I too felt well prepaired with some questions very challenging and required masive critical thinking.
I understand your feelings of uncertainty.
Lis

Well...good luck to you and let me know how you did!! Nothing can be done about it now....best thing to do is too try and relax and have a restful weekend.

Valiere

grannynurse FNP · Jun 17, 2005

Hey,
You're not alone... I had 75 this AM with priority, math, and priority questions gallor. I too felt well prepaired with some questions very challenging and required masive critical thinking.
I understand your feelings of uncertainty.
Lis

I know that my comments will not address you issues but I feel I need to make them. How would you like to sit for boards, for two days and take different parts with numerous questions? And then wait six to eight weeks to find out if you had passed your boards. Or take a day of questions and two days of practical exams? The first is what I had to do and the latter is what nurses did back in the 40sand early 50s. I realize that taking an exam and having a computor shut off at 75, 100, or 200 questions can be nerve raking but you find out if you passed in relatively short order. We had to wait and wait and wait :crying2:

Grannynurse :balloons:

cube · Jun 17, 2005

I know that my comments will not address you issues but I feel I need to make them. How would you like to sit for boards, for two days and take different parts with numerous questions? And then wait six to eight weeks to find out if you had passed your boards. Or take a day of questions and two days of practical exams? The first is what I had to do and the latter is what nurses did back in the 40sand early 50s. I realize that taking an exam and having a computor shut off at 75, 100, or 200 questions can be nerve raking but you find out if you passed in relatively short order. We had to wait and wait and wait
Grannynurse :balloons:

That must have been difficult for you. Would you like to talk about it? :uhoh3:

Miltonrn · Jun 17, 2005

Well...good luck to you and let me know how you did!! Nothing can be done about it now....best thing to do is too try and relax and have a restful weekend.
Valiere

Hi Valiere,

Thanks for the good advice... as time passes I'm getting more and more uncertain about the results. I took a practice NCLEX by Mosby, scored in the 98th percentile, studyied 2 hours a day for the past 2 months and feel even more uncertain after sitting. You're right I'm going to take the weekend off and relax! I love to water ski and plan on doing some barefooting this weekend. YEAH.

Later,

Lisa

Miltonrn · Jun 17, 2005

I know that my comments will not address you issues but I feel I need to make them. How would you like to sit for boards, for two days and take different parts with numerous questions? And then wait six to eight weeks to find out if you had passed your boards. Or take a day of questions and two days of practical exams? The first is what I had to do and the latter is what nurses did back in the 40sand early 50s. I realize that taking an exam and having a computor shut off at 75, 100, or 200 questions can be nerve raking but you find out if you passed in relatively short order. We had to wait and wait and wait
Grannynurse :balloons:

Thank you so much for your input and paving the way for us new grads and the information you've shared. I'm so respectful of those who have been advocates for change and thankful for having the opportunity to test on computer. As nursing students we took a practice NCLEX by Mosby's (I think it was 7 hours worth of testing and 6 weeks of waiting for results) Point well take Lisa Great attitude adjustment for me....

rach_nc_03 · Jun 19, 2005

I know that my comments will not address you issues but I feel I need to make them. How would you like to sit for boards, for two days and take different parts with numerous questions? And then wait six to eight weeks to find out if you had passed your boards. Or take a day of questions and two days of practical exams? The first is what I had to do and the latter is what nurses did back in the 40sand early 50s. I realize that taking an exam and having a computor shut off at 75, 100, or 200 questions can be nerve raking but you find out if you passed in relatively short order. We had to wait and wait and wait
Grannynurse :balloons:

point made, but it's all about frame of reference. my fiancee is in the army, stationed in asia, and we chat online regularly, but our separation is still extremely difficult. his father was in vietnam for a year just after meeting his future wife, and i know that was also very painful for them, but they didn't have the internet, so their expectations were quite different. was their situation inherently more painful than ours? i don't think a direct comparison can be made, nor can one be made between the situation you faced with waiting for boards results and that of today's testers.

if i knew that my results would take 6 weeks (and so did my classmates), clearly i wouldn't feel so freaked out immediately after testing. and i think the CAT process is uniquely painful- you almost definitely missed AT LEAST half the questions, so no matter how many items you had, it feels like you failed. then you find out that others had more/less items and passed/failed...you can have any testing experience and be filled with worry.

i won't say that your situation wasn't hard, because i didn't live it...but i don't think you can know what ours is like, either.