I just took my nclex less than a month ago. I too felt like I had not retained anything. My friend and I schedule our test on the same day so we would have moral support. When I started taking the test I was horrified. Every question I answered I doubted myself. Finally at question number 85 the test shut off. I knew I had failed. My friend only had 85 questions and he felt the same way I did.Our brains was so overloaded by the time we graduated my friend and I had little desire to do any studying. He had not studied at all for the exam and I had answered nclex questions from our book we had from our Roles class. The two days we had to wait for our results was horrible, but we passed. I think what helped the most was the Hesi test we had to take in our Roles class.