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Thanks guys for all the great input everyone has put forth in response to my "need help" for the next test. I find it very helpful and believes this should give me a pretty good idea of what and how I would go about to review for my next test. So, please pray for me and *crossing fingers* hopefully everything will go well this time! =D

Wow, okay everyone... I specifically came to this website to ask for feedback, "to do better" on my next examination, from nurses who have passed or still trying, their experiences and what they have tried that I could do to review/study differently. And I appreciate those that have given me that feedback, thank you very much! It is TRUE being a nurse means being so competent in many ways and to prove it through passing the NCLEX-RN examination speaks itself, but I am not ashamed to admit that failing for the 5th time doesn't mean I'm not going to be or will be a good nurse. I graduated from nursing school and that itself already speaks a lot for myself, yes, but to take the NCLEX-RN 5 times (as others may say)? Well - everyone has their own problems in life and we all (as differently as we are) managed life and stress so different in so many ways. So please, this post I have here is solely for the intention to give me feedback that you, when studying for your NCLEX-RN examination had found what to be most helpful or what you had done to help you get through the exam. So please, no more of the other comments. I already passed all these "put down" on myself. I appreciate the caring and thoughts from other people that came with the good intention, but my heart believes not to give up because I know when I get through this exam I can become a good nurse who will try to find information and solutions to care for my patients... just as I believe the same way I am trying to do right now for myself. So after this post, if anyone has any good feedback that may help me please do give otherwise I have to say to the others, thanks for the comments but please do keep them to yourself. So, from the feedback I am hearing a lot of stuff and believes these are what I will try next time: I will go to see what Kaplan has to offer about their test-strategies. Instead of doing tons of questions perhaps will focus on breaking down the question and answering them, then will see if that differs from the way I have answered them before (perhaps I have focus too much on content and not go about answering the question...?) Also, reach out for my nursing professor if I can get some help (right now I do not have a tutor). Because I didn't finish all the NCSBN questions that was provided... I will attempt to try doing those questions again. Right now I feel the contents are still fresh so I will review them tremendously and will try the above to see if there will be any improvements. Thank you everyone, but if anyone else has any other suggestions that may help please do give!

Jody - a part of me guess do have to agree with you. I just thought that with life and a job, if I could take that time to prep and be prepared for it I should be okay. However, I believe I must be wrong. The longer I waited or time it took... somehow you start to lose a little something I guess. Since I failed this time I am going to start at it again NOT from contents but by doing more questions, hopefully to drift the way I think differently to answering them correctly.

plastic100% thank you! I read through your story and I am VERY inspired! That gives me a little strength and courage to make my way through. I believe I will get through this and become a great nurse!

KatieMI, you must have mistaken. I was referring to the length of the question given by the test whether it made any difference in the type of question given such as passing, near, or below level. I didn't mind it being long I just had this mind-sent that the longer the length of the question given meant I was in the passing level, and a sentence long question meant I was in the below level. So, with this mind-sent and judgement on my part I felt like DARN, I need to answer correctly and get more questions longer in length. Yes, maybe I did worry myself too much on that but I just wonder if it made any difference... =/

Thank you lj3_nurse!

EVERYONE I need all the advice, suggestion, and help as much as possible! So I am completely bum-out and am starting to feel maybe I'm just not meant for a RN (as I am told by some people). I have just taken the NCLEX-RN and it's been more than 24 hours and am pretty confident that I FAILED it. I am trying to gather all my strength but it is so tough to get all that courage again. Starting to feel really discouraged! Has anyone taken their NCLEX-RN recently that FAILED 5 TIMES LIKE ME? Or, am I the only one?! I will tell you that I have taken the NCSBN 15 week course (didn't exactly finish all the practice questions), but reviewed all the contents in there as well as questions in both the Saunder and Lipprocotts booklet that relate to those contents reviewed both right and wrong rationales and even jotted down notes to review before the exam. With a part-time job, mother, and wife I put about 3 months into this whole reviewing/studying contents etc. to make sure I went in with confident to pass this exam but in the end, I still didn't. I feel like I'm running out of choices here. The exam I took had about 3 SATA, no math, 2-3 really long paragraph (about 3-4 sentences long, which I thought I was in the passing level, perhaps?) and the rest was just about 1-2 sentence long. I didn't even make it pass 75 questions. That's terrible!!!! For those that have passed the nclex rn did you rec'd a lot of questions in paragraph form like 3-4 sentences long? Or perhaps 2-3? I'm sure 1-2 was just below or near the passing level. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... I need the help all I can get what I can do differently, review differently etc. Anything will be GREATLY appreciated! Sounds really desperate but I am determine to pass this next time and if I don't I have no idea how to move on...