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Lol.. Wow this trick still works, eh? Congratulations :)

good luck guys.. it's a great school

Mia, does your test say, "Delivery successful" or "Pending delivery"? If it says Delivery Successful then try it, then if it says, "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled the exam. Please contact your Member Board for further assistance. Another registration cannot be made at this time." There is another pop up message that you can get if you try to do it too early and that one doesn't mean anything.

Well I got 6 of the EXACT same TYPE of medication calculation question. The only thing different about them were the amounts of the drug and weight of the patients. I know for certain that I got every single one of them wrong, so that kind of leads me to believe that the test kept giving me them because it knew I couldn't figure it out. Ah well, passed anyway!

I think much of the experience with OB has to do with your clinical instructor and the facility that you are at. I was NOT looking forward to that quarter and in the end it ended up being my most enjoyable. Not that I'll be going into L&D, heh, but it was definitely an unexpected, yet very positive and educational experience for me.

I wish you the best of luck! And my goodness.. only 13 graduated out of a class of 40, what the heck!!! lol

Well that's what our Kaplan instructor told us, so she must've been misinformed. But the real question still is, did the OP run out of time (the 6 hours) while on the 158th question or did the test determine that he/she passed/failed at question #158!

No, you cannot take as long as you want for one question. I think your instructor meant that, in general, you can take as long as you want for the exam because 6 hours is usually more than enough for most people to finish. That would be very unfortunate if the time ran out at 158 questions rather than the test stopping because it determined you passed/failed. Oh and from what I've heard, if you run out of time, the test looks back on the last 60 questions completed or something like that and you had to have gotten them all correct.

Thank the good lord that I didn't have to do any of this; in fact this is the first time I've heard of anything like this. G'luck with it!

30 years old and just passed boards on Monday... start work this Monday

lolwut

ditto

Whiterabbit - you got it, don't worry. I came out of NCLEX (on Monday) convinced 100% that I had failed. I got every single med calculation wrong because it kept giving me the same type (as if it KNEW) and I had like 6 of them. I got like 6 meds that I had never even heard of so I was just guessing on those. And it felt as if I was guessing on the rest of them lol. I did the trick and and I got the same message as you did and last night I found out that I had passed. This trick truly does work... rest at ease until you know definitively.

Crystal, you gotta wait till the test says "Delivery successful" then check it.. it should then say something like.. "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Please contact your Member Board etc...."

Trick still works. After about a 99.9% certainty that I failed the NCLEX, I just checked my states BON online and my license states that it is now currently ACTIVE (which was previously PENDING) along with my Nurse Assistant and Health Care Assistant certifications. So if you're for certain that you failed, yet the trick ended up working for you and you did not get to the credit card page, you can breathe a little easier... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

I felt the same way.. and the pearsonvue trick at least alleviates some of the anxiety post-NCLEX. Log into pearsonvue and wait until your NCLEX exam says "Successfully delivered" if it says "Pending delivery" then it's still too early. Once it says successfully delivered, then try to reregister for the NCLEX.. if the pop up comes up that states "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled the exam. Please contact your Member Board etc..." then you should be good to go. I certainly hope so anyway, I don't get to see my real results until tomorrow.

Well I never actually listened to the on-line lectures for Kaplan. I did attended the live class, so I am assuming they are not much different. For the Kaplan lectures all they did was go through each question and talk about strategy. Was it helpful? I suppose so, but if your knowledge content isn't the greatest then it can only get you so far. The on-line lectures for Hurst were much different than Kaplan's. It takes about 4 days to listen to the lectures if you spend a lot of time each day on it. She lectures about almost everything that is related to the NCLEX (not to mention that she is pretty entertaining to listen to at times). She lectures on Hypo/hypervolemia, GI, renal, cardiovascular, pediatrics, orthopedics, endocrine, oncology, psych, maternity. There's this big packet that you print out to use to go along with her lectures that is REALLY helpful. It'll be like your study notes when you're done listening to all the lectures. The way she explains things and breaks things down makes it seem so elementary, but its very effective at making you understand the content. So for me, personally, it helped a lot. I think Kaplan + Hurst is a great combo to prepare for the NCLEX. Except for math calculations, which kinda messed me up on NCLEX, heh.

I just took my NCLEX yesterday and I used both Kaplan & Hurst. I did probably about 45% of the QBANK questions and ranged from 45-65%. I actually did really bad on my readiness exam (like 49%) which it was then I decided that I needed to review content, which is why I then started using Hurst. Hurst is unbelievable for actual content review, it helped me a lot during the NCLEX. After I did Hurst, each time I did a QT my scores were getting higher and higher, ranging from 52% on QT1 and finishing with 65% on QT7. I think using both of these services together was very helpful, but of course it is expensive. I had a hard time trying to review content using Kaplan's book, for some reason I didn't like it. So for me, if you're kind of hazy on actual content and need help learning it, try out Hurst. Kaplan is good for preparing for the NCLEX in a sense that the questions are very similar to what you see on Kaplan, so it just kinda feels like you've done it before. Although I personally felt the NCLEX questions to be a bit harder =/

Hmm weird, from what I understand it's supposed to say something like "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Please contact your member board for further assistance etc... " What yours is saying is what mine said when my status said "Pending delivery" then once I got the "Delivery successful" I got the "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Please contact your member board for further assistance etc... " So I'm not quite sure...

Well that's what happened to me.. I didn't get peds math calc, but I was getting math calculations such as: > and I didn't know how to do them and I kept getting the exact same type of questions probably about 5 times. It SUCKED!

Hard questions may be a good sign if you get 75, but I had around 135 questions! >

G'luck sammy sams.. you rocked it, you know you did!

Oh god that NCLEX was KILLER. Way harder than anything I've done on Kaplan.. my goodness. I got all these meds that I had NEVER heard of, I mean never! I couldn't even use the endings of the names to try to help me figure out what class of drug they belonged to. It kept giving me the EXACT same type of med calculation question that I didn't know how to do, I got like, 5-6 of them too. I feel that I have about a 99% chance of failing, but did the pearsonvue trick and I can't get to the CC page. So to me that means they must've fixed their system cause I don't believe it lol OH THE AGONY OF IT ALL

i swear to god if this thing still works i will be the happiest mofo on the planet. 99% certainty of failing.. tons of meds i never heard of, kept giving me the same med calculation question which i had no idea how to do, yet i cannot get to the cc page on pearson. O M G

Dang it champ where were you! I just took the NCLEX and bombed the math questions.. they weren't the easy ones like I had in Kaplan.. ARRRRR!!!