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Better to go ask a different thread or perhaps start your own, they don't like posts that aren't related to the topic...

It looks as if you did not pass according to the PVT trick but the only DEFINITE way is to get your quick results... Keep us updated!!

It surely did!!!

I just want to be clear because I understand where you are coming from, but if you read my original post I specifically say not to bring anyone down and do feel that nurses who have passed the nclex should be encouraging to future perspective nurses. It was a strict opinionated thread about the states current policies regarding retaking and opinions about them. I am pro patient care by providing efficient, accurate, and sometimes life saving measures to each and everyone of them. And if the NCLEX tests minimum competency then why do we have people who have to take the boards over SIX times. The opion part was based off of how do we obtain a better passing rate with minimum attempts that would allow for minimum competency?

I know what it's like to fail and your heart drops and the room seems to get bigger all around you as you feel smaller... The best thing to do is remember how you passed nursing school and study harder for the next time... You know what the test is like now and how to prepare... Don't give up!!

Must say that The U.S. Should adapt this policy if it wasn't for making money they probably would...

I couldn't agree with you more!!!

The term going in blind meaning you don't know what the comprehensive test is going to be. Is going to be like the questions you practiced, are there going to be a lot of SATA questions, are you going to get slammed with pharm questions, I mean it in that sense... And I went to a school that is ranked as the top 25th nursing school in the country and the NCLEX questions I got on my test were nothing like the questions I practiced... The only way to not go in to the NCLEX blind is if your a cheater and have all of the thousands of questions the NCLEX has to offer memoriZed... I can almost guarantee that if I was to chose ten difficult questions at random with terms that are barely heard of more than 85% would only get 50% right. The way the NCLEX is set up is two people could both get a 50% and one pass and one fail which is called computer adaptive testing... You get the first two questions right then right wrong the remainder you will pass but get the two first questions wrong and follow the same pattern you will fail. Not to mention no two tests are alike some people get an entirely easy test and get lucky because they know the content to every question where others aren't as fortunate... I agree with PP that a 75 questions test (well honestly 60 questions bc 15 questions don't count) isn't enough to test competency in every area of nursing...

I do believe the NCLEX carries a bit more risk than nursing school tests. This is the test that makes nursing school worth all of the tests you took, this is the test that will allow you to practice as a nurse (pending approval from your state), this is a comprehensive test that will include questions from any of the areas of previous study during nursing school... Point is there is going to be more test anxiety with the NCLEX I feel compared to a test you took in school... I do agree with PP's about two attempts after that remediation and after third go back to school but hard to say because I'm not in their shoes...

Yeah the scary part is we will never know those who took 6 tries to pass. The only way to really see incompetent nursing is stories about lawsuits or those Nurses you work with that should touch a stethoscope... I can see the argument after the third time something has to give which is why some states make you take a refresher course after the third failed attempt but do feel something is seriously wrong with them passing nursing school in the first place...

I agree

Hey I agree you should wait for quick results of your state allows it. But if you write a post about the PVT there's going to be a million and one different opinions about the subject and how it worked or didn't work for that very individual. Like I said I was only giving my personal experience and stated what I went through with the PVT and meant no harm by it only that it worked for me both times I took the NCLEX. I also never used a card that had enough on it to get charged for the $200 but never had a negative experience which I'm guessing is just luck.

Yeah usually that's the case I know from my experience after failing the first time. Best of Luck though.

I almost feel like that would be impossible to do. But that scares me the possibility of a fraud nurse with no education.

I understand my apologies. I was replying as I reading. But i also did not see an update from the original poster after I read everything. And was only giving my personal opinion on the matter and did not mean any poor etiquette by doing so.