Poll for those who have already taken NCLEX..

dansamy · Mar 4, 2007

1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX? 75

2. What study materials did you use? Did you take a test review course? NCLEX 3000/3500, Mosby's CAT, Saunders and Hurst Online Review

3. Did your SON offer any testing (ERI, ATI, HESI)? HESI was a requirement for graduation. The required score was 850, I made 1057.

4. How long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? 48 hours

5. What were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? "Wow! That was one weird test." I don't recall being certain that I had failed or confident that I had passed. Just felt, "well, that's the best I could do."

6. Was this your first attempt at NCLEX? Yep. I passed.

newnurse07 · Mar 5, 2007

1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX? 75

2. What study materials did you use? Did you take a test review course?

Kaplan and HESI

3. Did your SON offer any testing (ERI, ATI, HESI)? yes, HESI hated that test

4. How long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? 48hrs those were the longest two days of my life!!!!!!!!!!

5. What were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? Total disbelief, thought I failed. I had no idea of what happended during that test. Those 3hrs are a BIG Blurrrr:confused:

6. Was this your first attempt at NCLEX? Yes. I passed and i never wanna take it again:coollook:

itzkristen · Mar 7, 2007

1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX? I had 85 [NCLEX-PN examination].

2. What study materials did you use? Did you take a test review course? Upon graduation my nursing school offered a week of free NCLEX review classes and as my exam date grew close, I signed up for NCSBN Learning Extention program.

3. Did your SON offer any testing (ERI, ATI, HESI)? ATI

4. How long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? 48 hours.

5. What were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? Shock. As I was taking the test it felt as if all my knowledge regarding nursing just flew out the window. I walked away convinced that I failed and spent the next two days on edge. The waiting period is the absolute worst. Thankfully, I passed!

6. Was this your first attempt at NCLEX? Yep.

PICUmaleNurse · Mar 9, 2007

1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 75 (rn)

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? upon graduation my nursing school offered a week of free nclex review classes and as my exam date grew close, i signed up for ncsbn learning extention program and kaplan.

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? ati

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? 72 hours. i was in california and got lucky.

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? i thought i failed and remembered alot of questions that i got wrong before i remembered the ones that i got right.

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? yep.

PickMePlze · Mar 10, 2007

For those of us who have already taken boards, please answer a few questions that might help ease the minds of those who are still waiting to test or for results. I know reading as much as possible about other people's experience helped me feel a little bit better while I waited.
1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX?
I stopped at 75
2. What study materials did you use? Did you take a test review course?
I wanted to take Hurst but I couldn't afford to shell out $350 so I used Hesi Nclex Review, the book and MedsPublishing Nclex Online Review
3. Did your SON offer any testing (ERI, ATI, HESI)?

Hesi

4. How long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting?

I took it on March 1, 2007 and found out March 3 in the morning using quick results.

5. What were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)?

I thought it was hard as heck and that I probably failed.

6. Was this your first attempt at NCLEX?

1st!!!

Good luck to those who are waiting and ++++ thoughts for those who are waiting on results!!

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redicedtea · Mar 12, 2007

1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX? 83 (RN) and passed (first try!) Yipee!

2. What study materials did you use? Did you take a test review course? I graduated 9 years ago and havent practiced nursing since graduation. I took my NCLEX-RN recently and did the online Hurst review, read the Kaplan 2007-2008 book +CD , practiced on the kaplan cd trainer, and Saunders 2006 CD. I started studying 2 mos before the exam while working, but studied full time 2 weeks before the actual exam.

3. Did your SON offer any testing (ERI, ATI, HESI)? Nope. I am foreign- schooled, and graduated in 98.

4. How long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? 9 long days!! in california

5. What were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? I thought I had a big chance of passing cos even though I know I had a lot of mistakes, I knew majority of the other questions weren't as hard as I thought. But then as the days passed by with no results - I started to feel like - maybe my questions were not high level questions thats why. So 4 days later (with no results), I felt like I certainly failed.. But on day 9, saw my name on the BRN website! It was such a happy feeling! :)

6. Was this your first attempt at NCLEX? Yep.

BeccaznRN, RN · Mar 13, 2007

i know this is an old thread, but i'll answer anyway...

1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 75

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? i used lippincott nclex review book and the nclex review book endorsed by the nsna. i had no formal test review.

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? we took nln exams after each major nursing course (med/surg, psych, ob, and peds), and the mosby test and hesi during our last semester.

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? it took two days for my license to show up on california's brn website.

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? i remember hitting question 68, 69, 70, and thinking "i hope it shuts off at 75." and sure enough, it did. i walked out of the testing center not sure what to think....i didn't feel like i passed, but i wasn't completely sure i failed either. i felt like throwing up. the ride home (and pretty much the rest of the day), i felt numb. i didn't think i could fail that miserably on 75 questions, but some of the questions were almost too easy and made me think that i hadn't answered enough questions that were hard enough to pass.

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? yes.

jerseygirl17 · Mar 14, 2007

for those of us who have already taken boards, please answer a few questions that might help ease the minds of those who are still waiting to test or for results. i know reading as much as possible about other people's experience helped me feel a little bit better while i waited.

1. how many questions did you take on nclex?115-pn

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course?saunders review cards

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? ati

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting?

47 long hours

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? horrible, thought i failed for sure, sick to my stomach, wanting to cry, thought what was i doing????

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? yes-and last (until rn :)

carrie13 · Mar 21, 2007

1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 75

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? i took a review course at school and used the kaplan and saunders reveiw books.

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? no

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? i took the exam on 3/20 - still waiting for results.

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? definitely feel like i didn't pass....surprised at the number of med questions for meds i didn't recognize. also surprised that i didn't have any delegation questions and only a few prioritization after hearing so many other people say they had lots. no dosage calculations, very few where i could apply the abc's, and no questions where i needed to know a lab value/therapuetic dosage, etc. i had choices that said hyperkalemia, etc. but nothing that said the k level is 6.0 and i had to know that was hyperkalemia.

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? yes

bebe13 · Mar 22, 2007

1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 75

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? i used saunder's 3rd ed. and followed suzanne's study guide. i did self-review.

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? no.

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? i took the exam feb 6, and learned about the result thru the bon website on feb 8.

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? i had a 50/50 feeling. i answered some confidently, the other questions included never heard items like meds.

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? yes

cmp715 · Mar 23, 2007

for those of us who have already taken boards, please answer a few questions that might help ease the minds of those who are still waiting to test or for results. i know reading as much as possible about other people's experience helped me feel a little bit better while i waited.

1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 80

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course?

kaplan online (all q trainers and q bank) and kaplan strategy book.

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? none of those. we took a 'diagnostic' test but i can't remember its name now

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting?

took it on a friday, found out the next tuesday at 4am (ca brn), so 2

business days.

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)?

not knowing what to think! and then... as time passed that day and thinking about the questions and all.. i was more and more convinced that i had failed it... but it turned out that i didn't fail after all... (yay!)

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? fortunately yes

lenlen · Mar 25, 2007

1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 75

2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? nclex 3500, lippincott, saunder's highly recommend for content, kaplan also highly recommend questions are much more harder it make you think like nclex

3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? hesi

4. how long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? i took it march 22 fortunately ny does quick result...

5. what were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? hoping that i will stopped at 75 coz i bunch of people in my class their computer shuts off at 75 & passed but then when i got out i really felt that i felt for me the most hardest question i've taken in my life half of it are priorities meds that haven't heard of in my life few pscy question. they said if you stopped at 75 either you really did good and above the level competency or worst below their level. so i was freaking out.didnt get to eat or sleep

6. was this your first attempt at nclex? yes..thank god!