Priority Questions Level of Difficulty is the Passing Mark?

It seems like every person on this site has gotten priority and delegation questions same with what do you do first and who do you call first. I don't think going by these questions is any indication of how well you did lets face it no one can actually state they knew the difficulty level of the questions they were anwsering. and in nursing school they say that alot of the boards is leadership, delegation and so on so that is known before we go into it.

I had priority, delegation, infection control, meds, triage, you name it! And they were all over the place. I had "easier" questions towards the end of my exam. It is what it is and there's just no way to rationalize it. I just tried to not even think about the questions I was asked and just told myself, "well, it's done." Then there was the 47 1/2 hour wait. That was the worst part! :trout:

No, there must be someway to rationalize NCLEX because NCLEX CAT is based on logic and reasons.

You are correct in that it is based on logic and reason. You are incorrect in your assessment of what that logic and reason is, for the reasons I gave you in my response.

Just because something is based on logic and reason does NOT mean that it's very amenable to analysis from the NCLEX candidates themselves. In other words, the correct assessment (as she said) is that you can't pin things down easily because there are too many unknowns.

Eric and RNsRWe are right. There was a thread here awhile ago that someone got 265 questions and had lots of priority BUT THEY STILL FAILED. Any priority question can be an easy or a hard question. Depends how you look at it I guess. But the NCLEX is just a big mystery....

Actually I am not pinning it down, it's all assumptions. But to say that the assumption is wrong is also wrong unless you know exactly the correct assessment.

Eric and RNsRWe are right. There was a thread here awhile ago that someone got 265 questions and had lots of priority BUT THEY STILL FAILED. Any priority question can be an easy or a hard question. Depends how you look at it I guess. But the NCLEX is just a big mystery....

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but in response to this one I am quoting, I got up to 245, and most of my ?'s were priority and delegation. I had no math, no meds, no labs, and a few infection control. That's it. Mostly all priority and deleg.

I failed. My test print out from the BON said I came "near passing with all levels" ...Go figure. Hopefeully I'll have better luck retesting next week.

You can stress yourself in the exam trying to out guess the machine!

When I got my first priority question on my test I almost stood up & cheered because I'd heard they were on the harder line.

I nearly forgot to breath when trying to answer the 1st infection control one!

Then suddenly it dropped to an easier med question & I got that horrible sinking sensation, you know where it feels like all the blood is draining from your face. I tohught I must have answered the precious prioty/infection control questions wrong. Then it bounced straight up to a "who would you call first" that was REALLY hard (I guess now that the easier question was a test one.) After that I decided to forget the type of question being asked & stopped trying to guess where I was. I just answered each one that came along to the best of my ability. Luckily that was enough because I passed.

A hard priority question for you might be an easy one for the majority, you just don't know. So don't try & second guess the exam, take each question as it comes & try your very best to get it correct!

Just curious, have you got TRIAGE in your "failed" exam?

Actually, I am not trying to second guess the exam and I am not convincing everyone here to do that during the actual exam. The important thing here is that we should be able to understand how the machine works and at what level of difficulty a priority question might be.

Knowing this would help us prepare for the exam. For example if we know that priority questions are at difficulty level near the passing mark, then during our review, we must be able to achieve atleast 65% correct on all practice priority questions before we sit for NCLEX. That way, we know if we are ready or not and not just putting our $200 down the drain.