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The official results will just be a paper that says you passed, your license will come afterward, along with your registration certificate.

Remember your ABCs, and remember to breathe while you're in there. Slow down, read the questions and make sure you understand what they're asking before you pick an answer. Relax for at least the whole of the day before, and remember: you've done the work. You are ready. You can do this too.

Both work to check, they boot over to the same database (tried both myself just to make sure. ) It takes a week to 14 days usually for us NY people; they may be running slow due to the wealth of grads in June who've written recently. If it hasn't shown after two weeks, maybe try giving them a call?

Results do come out on Sunday - I got mine then the first time I wrote. The second ones came on a Sunday that also happened to be July 4th. The PV system is automated to kick out the results regardless; no humans involved. So long as the system doesn't go down or malfunction spectacularly, the results should be available 48 hours from your test time regardless.

It worked for me and I'm in NY. The board generally seems to take between 7-14 days to post your number as well. I passed on July 2nd, it was up on the 12th - 10 days later.

Just how long it takes them to process things, I guess. I'd wager it's because they actually have someone checking it by hand, and AZ has automated the process more than we have here in NY. Some states are just faster than others, and NY isn't near as bad as it could be - from what I've read here, California is notorious for being slow, which really drives their NCLEX takers nuts. There's nothing faster for us here in NY than the unofficials, really. Aside from the PVT trick, of course, and you said you did that one already. If the PVT came back good, though, I wouldn't worry. You've got this.

Usually within 7-10 days. Mine took exactly 10 from write to post.

ems - you can check your number, if it's up, here. Scroll down in the list of professions to your type (RN or LPN) and click on the profession to highlight it. Then enter your last name and first name in the search box (with NO comma, just a space between them), and click the search button. If it's in the system, it'll come up.

Remember your ABCs! That almost bit me until I wrote it down for reference on my whiteboard. It came in handy with prioritization. Good luck! You're gonna walk out of there an RN!

For priority stuff, the most recommended book around here is LaCharity's Prioritization, Delegation and Assignment. The questions are hard enough to teach you how to think about them on the NCLEX, there's whole case studies in the back, and the rationales are great. Do the questions, read the rationales for both the right and the wrong answers. It worked for me, and I know a number of others around here will say similar of it.

I sat down after my fail on the first write and determined I refused to write the exam a third time - I was going to pass the second one so I wouldn't have to see it again. Then I did what caliotter3 suggested. It worked.

Two quick things: 1) I know how you feel. I wrote a 265 back at the beginning of the month and came out feeling like I should just grab my books from the back seat of the car and start studying again. But...I passed. Passing can and does happen at 265, just as it happens at 75, and regardless of your current feeling it's more than possible you're through it. Cheer up! 2) The Pearson VUE trick, as silly as it sounds that they'd let it get through their radar like that for so long, does work. I did it on a whim, figuring that even if it didn't work, all I had wasted was a few keystrokes...and got the good popup, only to be followed two days later by my unofficial pass and 10 days later by my # on the state NB website. :)

Took about 10 days for mine to show up. I wrote on the 2nd, and it was up on the evening of the 12th. It may take longer or shorter, they told me, depending on how many people they have to process. For reference though, mine showed up at the end of the working day (around 4-5pm EST), meaning that might be database synch time.

July 2nd this year, all 265. Passed. :3

You do the only thing you can do: Take a day or so to regroup, look at your study plan and tweak it to your newfound understanding of how the exam actually works, and when the official results come in and tell you where you went wrong, use those to focus your study work. Do questions - lots of them - as that seems to help most of us who didn't make it, and all of us who did. You can pass this. You made it through school, you can do this. Everything you need is in your head. You just need to bring it to the surface. :)

Not always the case - there's plenty of people who've passed over 200. Trust me, it's not as cut and dry as people claim it is! Either way though, iceman, given the PVT has turned out well, may I recommend a small celebration?

nyaloro - BON stands for Board of Nursing, and each state's got its own BON website, usually, where you can check for official results. Usually this comes in the form of your new shiny license number, a few days after the results are unofficial via Pearson, though I've seen some people on here who had spectacular turnaround time and had numbers within a few days of actually writing - around the same time as the unofficial Pearson results came out!

Definitely the LaCharity book for the Prioritization stuff. The questions in there were at NCLEX level for sure. If the Saunders CD isn't enough, there's always the box of question cards they sell as well - they've got the up side of being portable, meaning they can be done in the car and whatever. I also found Billings wasn't that bad for Q&A reviews - she writes the Lippincott Q&A review, which helped me and may also be useful. It's also got a CD question bank, too.

It's all explained in the other thread, over here. Just click there and read the first post - the whole thing's there.

Congrats! I was also worried the trick wouldn't work for me - that I'd be that one person it was wrong for - but it does work! So get to relaxing, you deserve it!

Thanks! It was, as I said at the time, the best birthday present I ever gave myself.

Moving both crutches to the stair first would leave them on a single point - their good leg - on the floor, and then would force them to either put undue pressure on their armpits trying to lift their whole weight, or put pressure on the bad leg as they raised the good leg to the stair. Either one's not really safe for them.

People at either end of the spectrum here - 75 passers and 265 passers - all share one commonality (aside from having passed): I don't think I've ever met one of either group who didn't come out of the exam feeling like they'd been hit by a truck full of Kaplan's question bank. Most of us feel run ragged by the experience, and we don't think, we KNOW we failed it. But the fact of the matter is, the way it works isn't always the way we think - passing is just as possible at a full set of questions as it is at a minimum set. So don't give up hope! I sat through a full battery on July 2nd, and came out sure I was going to have to hit the books again. Even when the PVT came back as a pass, I was sure I was one of the few it wasn't going to work for. So imagine my happiness when, two days later (on my birthday!) I got the quick results that confirmed it - 265 questions, 2.5 hours, 1 RN. It can be done! Don't give up hope! :balloons:

I took all 265 on July 2nd and passed. It's more than possible, and though both the 265 passers and the 75 passers often say they feel like the test was particularly evil and they feel like they failed it, there's plenty of hope for a pass in either situation!

It worked! I just got my results, and I passed!