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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. :)