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Congratulations!!! I'm in the same situation. Failed my first try with 265 questions, but have already purchased Hurst, but I guess I didn't take it serious enough and thought it will be fine. BIG mistake. Now I'll prepare again and hopefully pass :-) All the best to you!

thank you for your story! I am in the same situation and I am about to schedule the exam for the second time. Now I am more encouraged :-) Congrats to you!

I failed for the first time yesterday. Your story was so nice to read right now. I was moping around all day and beat myself up for not passing. Your story sounded like mine, but I went all the way up to 265 and I didn´t get a lot of SATAs, so I knew I am doing pretty bad. But I'm not sure why I went all the way up to 265. Maybe I was one of those people they just give all the questions. I purchased Hurst as well, but taking the test I forgot sooo many things. So I knew I wasn't prepared enough. Thanks for your inspiring story, I will keep studying and remember the "right" things to do And congrats to you of course!!!!! :)

Same here - questions I got on the test were so different than what I practiced. Content is everything! My advice - stay positive and calm yourself. It helped me a lot to tell myself "I can do this"! YOU can do this Good luck!!

Thanks guys!

I will definitely share my story for RN too. Let´s hope it won´t take long Thank you

Hello everyone, I graduated nursing school 2011, came to the US, had troubles transferring my diploma, paid a lot of money, lost the paid money, because of certain circumstances (and lack of knowledge - talk about bureaucracy!) studied on and off for the RN Nclex and finally was able to take the LPN Nclex. (I couldn´t take RN Nclex first, because I was lacking mental health practical hours, but was eligible for LPN.) So I took the test yesterday. It took me about 1 hour 20 minutes, it shut off at 85 questions. I had a feeling I was guessing half the time. But apparently I knew more than I thought! The questions weren´t really "hard" - I just haven´t heard of a lot of those questions they asked yet. Anyway, when I arrived at the test center I was calm and kind of looking forward to the test (to get it over with I guess haha) I wasn´t really nervous which surprised me, I stayed calm and told myself I can do this! Even in between the test when I wasn´t sure of an answer, I tried to tell myself to have trust in my decision-making. So after 85 questions, I left the test center. I refused to think that I failed (that was hard!) and I just wanted to pass so bad. I prayed and hoped for a positive result. I went home and wanted to try the PV-Trick, but the website has had been down for a few days (figures!!). But a few hours later I got through once and I had a pop-up which told me there is an "Open registration... blah blah" - so I wasn´t sure what that meant since it wasn´t the "usual good pop-up". So I kept trying through the afternoon/evening and came through two or three more times and the pop-up changed to "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled an exam. Please contact....... etc." So I was happy but didn´t dare to accept it for 100% until I saw official test results. haha Well, today I checked BON and there it was - my license number! :) I couldn´t believe it and still have a hard time believing. I thank the allnurses.com website for any support of you people. I thank my family and friends for all their support and good advice. I prayed to St. Joseph of Cupertino and promised to make him known to cause him to be invoked. Have faith in God, he is good. I have to be honest, I felt bad praying for passing a test since so much bad stuff happens in this world - but I needed to know what next has to happen in my life - now I know :) In case you´d like to know - since I studied on and off for the RN test (where I used Kaplan, Saunders, Kaplan Q bank, this website, Hurst review video clips, PDA LaCharity, etc.), I used the red Saunders LPN book, the Flashcards LPN book for questions, this website and the internet for information I needed. So you see, I didn´t really have much resources for that test. To be honest, I think a little luck goes with the test too I also had the feeling that, if you have common sense, you can get a lot of questions right (if you think you don´t know the answer). I used elimination a lot as well! That helped me the most I think at the actual test. Don't give up people! You can do this! Trust me - it´s not easy - I was struggling a lot too. With myself, with the language, with studying, with being homesick. And I´ve been out of nursing school for almost two years now. I am happy for now and can continue to pursue to pass the RN Nclex.

Oh thank you! So nice of you Good luck to you as well!

haha I liked your comment because I feel the same way - I think I will never really be prepared enough. And I still have to wait for my ATT, so I finally want to know my test date... I am doing Q trainers right now and some questions seem real simple (I have to mention my Q trainers are three yrs old - hope that doesn´t mean I won´t pass) and some are freaking hard. I hope you passed! Good luck to you! Let us all know!

I can only agree that I am so happy to have met you too.

:) CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! You did it! You are an R.N. now!!!! Thank you for posting that vumblevee. God is good and with His help we can accomplish anything. You gave me some more confidence now, thank you

Congratulations to you!!!! :-) Your story inspires me - I always try to tell myself to stay calm as well and just review and take the test as soon as I get my ATT letter. Go on celebrate! :-)

Hello everybody! I have been following your log a little bit. English is also my second language and I have had troubles studying. I always try to find motivation and self-confidence to face this exam, I have a hard time to stay focused though because it seems like I am so so so slow with studying... Well, anyway, I was wondering where you got the hurst videos from? Is that online to buy? I wish all of you the best and good luck of course! It´s just very inspiring to read all of your logs :)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! You kind of calmed me down I must say!!!! haha I am using the same resources as you did and I liked it when you said, that the NCLEX isn´t an evil, dark wizard *lol* I always try to tell myself not to panic and just stay focused. And sometimes I have days where studying just doesn´t work for some reason, so I just try to do questions then other than reviewing content. So my conscience doesn´t get that bad ;-) Go celebrate, you did it! :w00t:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :w00t: See you did it! :yelclap: I will have the exam for the first time in a couple months - I am so nervous! Now go celebrate! :cheers: