cheryld1959

I just found out yesterday that I passed with 150 questions. Thank you everyone for your support. Good luck to everyone retaking - if I can do it YOU CAN TOO. I think studing Sauders and Kaplan really helped. I didn't study them before. I started taking a review test every day for a week. It helped me get my speed up. (I took over 2 min. per question the first time). The rationales help you think the NCLEX way. Someone I worked with told me to take at least 2000 questions before I tested. Same reasons - get the rationales so you will think the NCLEX way. GOOD LUCK SECOND TIMERS - we are stronger, wiser and the most grateful when we do get our license. I am going to use this experience as I am even more compassionate to others. Praise God!

I just found out yesterday I passed - this was my second time. I am writing to let everyone know there is light at the end of the tunnel. I feel so grateful, and appreciate my license so much. Hang in there everyone, 60 days ago I felt like my world had come to an end. But we pull ourselves up, study, and try again. I was calmer, more relaxed, and took 150 questions in 3 hrs, verses the 205 in 6 hrs. first time. Hang in there! And Congrats Corvette! Praise God!

Congratulations! I'm 47 and understand your excitement. Please tell me how you kept from frecking out when you went passed 75 questions? I failed the first time I took the test with 203 questions. All I read is "I passed with 75". I have been trying to prepare myself for 265 questions. Any tips?

Waveskw: You can contact Suzanne thru the top Toolbar, click on Forum, then forum staff. She can help you. ALso, my nclex review course offered a course to those who didn't pass - I don't know about Kaplan. Good Luck. It sounds like to me you had a bad attack of anxiety when the questions were different than what you were used to. Anxiety gets most of us. One word of advise. Give yourself some time off to get your confidence and focus back. Keep us posted.

Dear Posters: Update. It has been a month now since I found out I didn't pass the NCLEX. It has taken the whole month to feel like myself. My confidence is starting to come back. I am no longer sad to hear my classmates passed, I now feel joy for them. I have rescduled my test, but am not "advertising" when I am taking it like I did before. I have also taken off the week before my test to rest and relax and the two days afterwards, because I know I will be in no frame of mind til I find out. I write this to you to let you know "time does heal all wounds." I have also come to the peace that God has reason's why, and I don't always understand. But I do know that I have received 45 more days of training by my hospital which I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. And everyday I learn more and more. So that has been a blessing. I know you too will feel this way soon too.

I know exactly how you feel. I took the NCLEX 10 days ago and failed too. First I felt the humiliation of failing and having to tell everyone when they asked how I did. Which, by the way, was nothing but hugs and encouragement, and stories of friends and co-workers who didn't pass the first time. Now I feel scared, and have lost all my confidence. Which if you knew me would surprise you. I wanted to get some tips etc about how I could get rid of these feelings, and that I why I have been reading these forums for the last few nights. But I just saw I PASSED, etc, which made me feel worse. Thank you for having the courage to write. This is my first reply. I feel better. I hope you do too. My hospital has kept me on in the same position - Nurse Tech. Yours will probably do the same - they have a lot invested, and want you! Keep your chin up. I am trying to do the same. Good Luck.