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Is it looked down upon if I were to bring a list of questions with me to my interview? Or is it best to try and remember all of the ones I'd like to ask?

Finally, after 3 months of applying to different facilities and all different types of positions I have an interview. I'm just curious of some often asked questions for RN positions. It's a critical care position, although I don't think that part will matter for the interview process. I want to be as prepared as possible. I've never had a medical job so I don't know what sort of questions it entails. Thank you

55% on a test puts you in good shape? That sounds awfully low if you ask me. At least average in the 60's somewhere is what most refresher courses recommend.

If your text is next week, I wouldn't try cramming that 335 pages on that first link. There are smaller more condensed study guides floating around here than that. Very well put together post though for future NCLEX takers.

ATI recommends that you score at least a 60% which is their benchmark. Kaplan says that 65% is where you should be for NCLEX success.

I suggest switching it up every time you read it. Start with page 1 on some days and then start from the end on others. That way you are getting experienced to all of the material while you're most fresh. 35 pages of straight knowledge is a lot, so you may be burned out by the end.

I used ATI online course review. I don't recommend it at all. The coaches don't really do anything for you and it's not user specific. It's a set program for every individual and doesn't work towards your certain needs. I don't know what other programs though, if it is the same way. http://www.scribd.com/doc/25855834/Nclex-Study-Guide - I read this once a day for the entire week before my exam. rn pedia . com - (Can't link this on this forum for some reason so I spaced it) A ton of questions there and I noticed after reading that review above a few days that questions were becoming a lot easier to answer. Because no certain criteria on boards is guaranteed I just did question after question. Also I bought the NCLEX-RN 2010-2011 Edition Kaplan: Strategies, Practice, and Review book. Also sat in on a free online kaplan seminar that gives you a free practice at the end. I did whatever I could to get exposed to as many questions as I could.

I took NCLEX for my second attempt today. For those of you didn't know, I took it first try in June and I went the full 265 questions only to fail. I felt miserable and not a day went by that I wasn't angry at myself wanting another shot. 45 days later and I took my exam today. It shut off at 75 questions and when I did the PVT I got this message, "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Please contact your Member Board for further assistance. Another registration cannot be made at this time." Tell me good news, folks!

How many questions did you have? If you don't mind me asking

This is just my experience, I really feel the need to share and I know it's pretty lengthy. I truly appreciate anyone who reads and responds. I tried my best to keep it interesting for anyone willing to read, sorry. I graduated from my ADN program just this past May. My school worked with ATI through the entire program and at the end of our program we had to take an ATI predictor that would give us its prediction on how we would do on NCLEX. It was a 175 question test and I ended up getting a 71% which translated into a 91% passer chance on first attempt. Even though I was predicted high to pass I still felt that I should take a course to help better prepare myself up until the test date. So I purchased the ATI online NCLEX review course. I followed the study plan well, I didn't even work from the time I graduated until test date. The way ATI works is that they will give you another predictor exam and depending on how you do they will give you the "green light" to take boards which is active for 2 weeks. If you fail to take the exam within' those 2 weeks then you need to retake it. I ended up with a 65%, which translated into 90% passing chance on NCLEX first attempt (I know, a significant drop from the first time I took and only a 1% prediction difference). For practice, my online instructor gave me an additional two predictors for more exposure, which I got 64% twice on those then and again translated to 90%. I felt pretty confident having being told on 4 separate occasions I would pass NCLEX. The day before the test my mind started to race and I would think of every question I've ever missed and trying to recall the rationales. I scheduled my test for 8 a.m. in the morning (my nursing program was evenings), which is not when I'm used to taking tests. I had a breakfast pre-made and was ready to go. I laid down at about 11 p.m. the night before and literally tossed and turned the entire night and probably got about 1-2 hours of sleep. Oddly enough, my nerves have yet to kick in. Was surprisingly calm for what is going to be the biggest test of my life. I could contribute my lack of sleep to the reason I felt this way, but, that would be me just making excuses. Upon arrival of the test taking center, still not feeling nervous. I took a break at question 50, I didn't want to exhaust myself because I can get flustered from tedious questions back to back. This may have been a mistake because I wasn't bored, I just went in with the mind set to pace myself. Slow and steady wins the race, right? Well, on my break I thought to myself, "This doesn't seem to be very difficult, or at least, the questions aren't hard enough to where I don't think I'm making good educated guesses". Scratch that, I have a surgical procedure next week to remove my foot from my mouth. The questions just kept coming one after another. I took the scheduled break and as I was getting up from my cubicle I noticed I was the last of all of the students who were testing that still had to finish. Hello nerves, I was wondering where you have been all morning. This is when I started thinking, this cannot be happening to me. I ended up going all the way to question 265 before NCLEX shut off. Once I got home, I struggled back and forth on whether I should try the pearson vue trick or not. I wanted to know to if I passed, but, at the same time I didn't want to see the credit card information. Well, I tried the trick and go, there was the credit card information. Let the 5 stages of the grieving process begin. Like many who fail, I'm sure they are in denial as I was. "There's no way this pearson vue trick can be right all the time, SOMEONE has to have had the bad pop up and passed on this forum", is what my mindset was. Couldn't find a single person. My family, bless their hearts, still continued to hold on to hope. This Friday, I paid for the quick results and sure enough as soon as the loading screen finished, "Fail" was there to greet me. I am in the anger phase currently. I don't understand how I could get through nursing school, take 4 different predictor tests that all say I have a 90% or better passing rate of boards and still not pass.. not to mention the countless assessments to give me even MORE exposure. I feel like my family is judging me without them even having to say a word. It's impossible to not feel like a failure. After speaking with my online instructor, I'm paraphrasing here, she hasn't heard of anyone who has passed NCLEX if they missed question 265 and essentially that one question determined whether I passed or failed. If that's true or not, that would have been something pretty important to know going into this. Sure that's on me, not doing the research to find out how every little step of NCLEX works. So here I stand, having to wait 45 extremely long days until I can even pick a time to sit and try again. I wouldn't be so angry if I could just take the test again next week or even two weeks, but the length between attempts is what is killing me most. I have to go to bed every night and wake up the next morning knowing that I couldn't deliver on the most important test of my life. I'm going to keep working with ATI until my next test date. I understand going into NCLEX with confidence is important for passing but at this moment I have none. Just for anyone curious, I know I am going out of sequence at this point. My test was made up of a lot of prioritization questions, SATA questions, and drugs I never heard of. When I see SATA, doubt creeps into my mind before I even read the question. That's my story, now my question to the people of this forum is: How likely is it for someone to pass the second attempt at NCLEX when failing at 265 questions? I know there isn't any set in stone statistics, but just from everyone's experience from reading around on these forums over their time here.