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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!

Congrats! Let me know how you did ? What were some of the tools you used? I’ve been studying my exam is soon I just feel so anxious ? but you’re right I felt the same after the exam at one point I’m thinking I did fine at another I’m thinking I ruined it it’s a really scary feeling for sure. My studying habit has changed, I also feel studying with partner/s also helps as I have a friend I’ve been studying with.

You can do it! I’m in the same boat. Let me know how you did?

Hi everyone, I've given NCLEX-PN exam 2 times and I plan on giving it a third time. I'm so afraid because I feel like whatever I study won't be enough and when I go in to give my exam again, it's gonna be like the first 2 times where I wasn't sure of the questions. The first time I got all 145 questions so it seemed like if I could had gotten a couple more questions right, I could've passed. The second time I did not do so well cause the questions were harder than the first time I took it and it stopped me at 104. The first time I studied UWorld as recommended to me which I felt wasn't as helpful for the exam as I thought, the second time I did some UWorld again, mark Klimek and questions on nursinglab.com etc. I will say that Mark Klimek notes did help and I learned more but the exam had a lot of new topic questions I did not know smh. So now I'm reviewing the Saunders Comprehensive NCLEX-PN book which I really like cause I feel maybe I need a content review and I like the questions on there(yes there very easy and nothing like the NCLEX). I also got Kaplan QBANK for $50 but I feel I don't like it. I don't like their style of asking the questions and the rationales don't explain well, for example I got one question on blood sugar, it said for the rational that "exercise increases blood sugar" while on Mark Klimek notes it states that exercise is like insulin which lowers blood sugar(which is correct). I'm so confused at this point and don't know what to study or do. I passed HESI in school with a 919 which was good but I don't know why I can't pass the NCLEX ? Sorry for the long post guys, any tips/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

@wanna b Please contact me! My email is [email protected] I’m struggling with that as well and wanted to ask you some questions.

Also if you don't mind emailing me as I don't see a way to message you on here that'll be great. [email protected]

Your story is so motivating! I'm also going through the same thing. I passed my final HESI with a 919 for school and I was soo thankful to God that He helped me! What I really love about your story is that you believed in God and He did it for you. I took the NCLEX a few days and felt like I didn't know what I was doing ? meaning it was hard to pick from the answer choices as they all seemed right. I used UWorld as recommended by my sister who used it and passed her BSN NCLEX. I think UWorld is good and there rationales are also good but I felt the NCLEX was more like the HESI(tricky) and UWorld was pretty straight forward which I thought NCLEX would be like. I'm going to study better and harder this time. Like you, I also read through UWorld but didn't really take any notes or really focused on it. Now I wish I did so I could've gotten this horrendous exam over with! Anyways, I will do my best and I've left everything in God's hands. He will give me the strength and wisdom to do this. Congratulations to you though!

Hi, honestly I was doing a variety of things but yes I think YBG did help to an extent. What also helped was the HESI PN book, those HESI hints are good I wrote them down in my own words and was reviewing it daily to retain the info in my mind. Along with prayers, For 2 weeks I locked(not literally) myself in my room and just studied all day which I know also paid off. By the grace of God I made a 919 the first try! I was shocked cause the previous HESIs I took I never made higher than a 800 so this was truly a blessing. Your friend can do it just tell her not to give up and keep pushing it through! Good luck!

That's so awesome! I'm taking my exit HESI next Friday so in a week and a half and I also got Your Best Grade and I see the similarity. I just got done doing the first PN exit HESI questions that were 110 and made a 720 :( my school needs a 900 score to graduate so I'm trying to do more questions as well as reading the HESI book, can I say I'm burned out?! But I'm hoping all this will pay off. I want this soo bad you guys! Pray for me!