265 questions is almost guaranteed if your a male.

[wilderness47]

The amount of males who get all 265 questions is alarming and needs to be looked into. I have a friend who failed twice at 265. I passed at 265. Another friend got all 265 today. 3 other male classmates got all 265. I work with 6 male coworkers. 5 of them got 265. The amount of men in nursing is already a fraction, but the percentile that goes all 265 has to be alarming. In 20 years I am gonna see a commercial saying "If you're a male and took the NCLEX and received all 265 questions you may be entitled to financial compensation."

[MotoMonkey, BSN, RN]

Thats correct!

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

Come along way since those application threads all those years ago, eh?

[Gorjesss, BSN, RN]

All the guys in my cohort so far have passed with 75. ??‍♀️

[Waiting for Retirement]

On 6/10/2019 at 11:57 PM, wilderness47 said:

I'm legit curious now. Hopefully some other guys can chime in and rid me of my new tinfoil hat, but I literally just asked every guy I know or work with and kept getting the same answer. So odd. Apparently only 15% of people get all 265.

What you are observing and posting about is nothing more than anecdotal evidence. Or, in nursing parlance no actual evidence.

Beyond that, since the exam has no way of knowing one's gender/preference/proclivity, what you're really suggesting is that the males in your cohort don't test as well as the females...either because they aren't as bright as the females or didn't learn the material as well. A strange stance don't you think?

Male or female or other, doesn't correlate to number of questions on the exam.

[ProgressiveThinking, MSN, CRNA]

Minimum amount of questions here for LVN, RN, and CRNA. Case closed.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

On 6/13/2019 at 1:25 PM, Sue Demonas said:

Hmmm, computer adaptive testing only begin in 93 or 94-ish. (Can't remember exact year, but around then.)

1994 (To meet that goal, NCSBN is devoted to developing a psychometrically sound and legally defensible nurse licensure examination consistent with current nursing practice. NCSBN became the first organization to implement computerized adaptive testing (CAT) for nationwide licensure exams in 1994.)

1994 + 30 is 2024, so not too far off. How time does fly.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

On 6/23/2019 at 12:45 AM, CameToSlay said:

come on there’s 2 right answers to every question

No, there aren't, though for many people it's comforting to think so. There are sometimes questions that are being trialed for use in a future test bank, and they may be bad ones; they do not count for score and if they don't pass muster they are discarded or reworked for future trial. There ARE many good questions that are purposefully constructed to look like there are two plausibly correct answers. However, there is only one best answer, and these questions are designed to identify the better critical thinkers.