TNmsn2be

I took the test today and after over 1,000 Kaplan review questions and doing well on the practice exams, I found the actual exam didn't have anything that I felt that I actually 100% knew! There were so many pharm questions with drugs I had never heard of - I am hoping that the majority of those were the "fake" questions. Over the course of the exam I had 5 "check all that apply" questions. The very last question - # 75 - was a check all that apply. My friend said that if I was doing poorly it wouldn't have ended with that type of question. Does anyone have any thoughts or knowledge if this is true? Anything to help this sick feeling in my stomach.. :wink2:

I hear you! We just found out about the HESI's. We have to take one now during break (for semester 1 material) and one in April (for semester 2 material) but those two "don't count". We have to take our final one in August for graduation. We have to pass with an 850 (I'm assuming that's equivalent to an 85%) in order to sit for the NCLEX. We also can only repeat it one other time. There was nothing that had been mentioned about this test up until about two weeks prior to our first semester ending just a couple of weeks ago. We are paying 40k a year for this two year MSN program and certainly no one wants to have to repeat anything at that price! Also, we have to maintain an overall 80% average of all coursework. They also make us sit through an in-school NCLEX review at the end of the summer semester as well. I guess it's all okay and is how they keep their 97 or 98% NCLEX pass rate..but it would have been nice to not have it sprung on us right before Christmas break!