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Hey Abshumate, I know what you're feeling. It can feel like torture when you have to wait for your NCLEX results. I now remember how anxious I was and when I look back, I wish I hadn't been because the worry can be so disruptive to your life. Listen, you probably passed the exam. I really hope you did. But in the mean time, you can't make it come any faster than it already is. Try to let it go. Try to take your mind elsewhere and relax while you wait for your results. Keep living. Keep yourself busy until they arrive because if you're anything like me, the anxiousness can almost be unbearable and that's not healthy for mind and body. I know when I take the exam again, I'm going to have to really find a way to not worry about my results until they arrive. Anyways, I hope you passed.

Everything you said PA_Coffeebreak, about how failing this exam made all the failures of your life flash through your head and about how brutal the emotions can get...that totally describes my experience. But I also appreciate your advice on how to get through it and how to eventually succeed. I'm going to read your post a few more times because I like your description and I thank you so much for giving me the link to the study plan you followed. I will be checking that out. And really, thanks to everyone who has replied to my thread. Thanks for all the advice.

Hey PA_CoffeeFreak...did you ever feel upset because it took a while before you re-took the exam and passed? What was you're inspiration to really focus and study the way you needed to? And how did you study before re-taking the test? You say you gave yourself a few months, and did you study consistently over those months?

Congratulations PA_Coffee Freak on passing the NCLEX today! Wow! That is wonderful! I think all of you are right, a refresher course is in my best interest, but I really can't afford to take one. They are all so expensive. I also agree, I shouldn't take the exam just to get it over with, but I'm afraid of missing the deadline - if there is a deadline. I heard that in some states, if you don't pass by a certain deadline, you literally have to go through nursing school again. So I'm going to try to find what the rules are for my state today. And I'm going to keep studying. I really like to think that I can be ready in a few weeks. I've been studying consistently for two weeks now and I want to schedule to take it in a few more.

I'm in such a crazy situation. I actually got my ASN almost two years ago. After I graduated, I went to visit relatives in Africa for 6 months, and when I returned I worked with the pre-licensed RN permit for nearly six months in an Emergency Department. While I was training in the hospital full time, I didn't study enough for the NCLEX. But several weeks before my scheduled exam, I studied really hard and I thought I could do it. By then, it had been a year since I graduated and when I took the exam, I failed. I had to immediately leave my new nursing job (after training there for 5 months) and was very disappointed in myself and very embarrassed. Since then, I've just had so much going on, including a lot of difficult and sad things. I've gotten all caught up in life and my responsibilities. After not having passed the first time, it was so hard to get myself to concentrate. I was even majorly depressed. Most of the time since then, I've never really studied as well as I should. But finally, since the past month, I got an RN Kaplan book (can't afford to take the classes) and I've actually been making progress. I do feel that I'm almost ready to test. I want to schedule to take the exam again in about 2 to 3 weeks. So what do you all think? Can I do it? Can I pass this test and finally make something of myself? This sound's crazy, but if I don't pass this second time, I'll lose my mind. I'm scared. If I don't pass this time, it's going to be close to the two year mark since I graduated from nursing school. What's going to happen to me then? Don't you have to pass the test by the two year mark because if you don't you'll have to go back to nursing school?