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I PASSED!!!!! i'm totally ******* shocked! thank you!

Yes. I get quick results tomorrow. fingers crossed!

It wouldn't let me private message you back, but the tutor I used is MJStutoring. Mary Jane Scott. She's out of North Reading, MA.

Thanks for posting this. I took it yesterday and got 75 questions with 21 or 22 sata and some ekgs and meds. I'm worried I failed. waiting for results is the worst. having trouble sleeping at night. it's all I can think about!

Yes, 5th time, you read that correctly. I graduated from an accelerated BSN program in 2013. The first time I failed in 89, the second time I failed in 155...I then thought I needed to do something. I took the Kaplan prep course and did all the prep materials. I got all the suggested grades, but I still failed in 265. I went back over Kaplan materials again...Again, I failed in 265. So now I hire a tutor. She is a full-time nclex-rn tutor and a prior employee of MGH in Boston. Extremely expensive, which is fun since I don't even have a job. We do all of Lacharite and all of Saunders 6th edition as well as the online Saunders/HESI prep course on evolve/Elsevier. I studied my ass off for 2 months. Today I went to the testing center at 2pm expecting to be there for 5-6 hours. I left at 3:30pm. The test shut off at 75 and I just sat there staring at the screen, suspecting a malfunction. I got 21 or 22 SATA, a couple EKG questions, some priority, a bunch of meds....but overall I am dying of suspense over here. I have no idea if I passed or failed. Can anyone out there provide insight? Has anyone passed in 75 questions with a similar number of SATA questions? Does that even matter? I cannot believe it shut off at 75.

Thank you so much! I haven't booked the test again, yet, but I hope to take it again in 2 months, which I think is enough time to get through Saunders since I don't work. I'll definitely get that alternate format questions book. I am horrible with SATA and only get about 25% of those questions correct. I just took the Saunders Assessment exam, 75 questions just to see where weaknesses are. I got a 72%, which I didn't think was horrible, but I was really weak with Pharmacology and Health Promotion and Maintenance. Thanks so much for replying. Starting to get my confidence back and start studying on Monday.....again.

I think that may be the problem. I've been practicing how to address the nclex style question that I haven't been working on content as much. There's always lots of drugs that I don't know. I'm really good in some areas, but other areas are bringing me down I think. That's why I just bought the Saunders book. I hear the content is really good. Do u have any other suggestions for reviewing content?

Every category just says "Near passing"...the 3 and 4th times I took the exam I took 265 and both times every category says i'm "Near Passing". I guess I'll just start doing questions and read Saunders for a content review.

I graduated from an accelerated BSN program in May 2013. I failed nclex-rn 3 times between June and December 2013. I have since taken the Kaplan course and received 60% in the Qbank, 62% Diagnostic, 60% on both Question trainers 6 and 7, and 62% on Readiness exam. I thought I was ready. I took the nclex again last week and failed again. The past 2 times I've gotten 265 questions. I have no clue what to do next. I just bought the new Saunders book with all the online questions. I was studying about 2 hours a day with Kaplan. Is that not enough? I was doing 100 questions a day for about 2 months. I feel totally blind-sided. Kaplan said I need above 60% and that's what I was doing. Does anyone have any recommendations on what I can do differently?