75 Questions on NCLEX, pass or fail?

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I see lots of posts about passing or failing with 75 questions, just curious what the stats are. I would like to think that nursing school prepares us enough that those who get 75 are mostly passing?

I passed with 75 but I would't have bet on it when I walked out the door. I then reasoned that the calculation was hard enough that I should have more like that if I hadn't done it correctly. I then knew I got some others wrong. Nothing can prepare you for the waiting.

What really helped was getting there early and overhearing the manager advise the test monitor to speak very slowly and in a low voice (with good eye contact) because people are so nervous. I kept telling myself "low and slow" while my heartbeat pounded in the headphones.

It worked. :nurse:

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I just posted before, sorry. But mine shut off at 77 questions. lots of priority, delegation,implementation and infection control 2 sata, 2 meds I'm FREAKING OUT. THESE TWO DAYS ARE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT. I can't even remember the actual questions!!!!!(IT'S LIKE A BLURR):heartbeat

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I can't believe how obscure those questions were. I don't feel that the NCLEX evaluated my competency, but instead my ability to recall very random facts that are largely irrelevant. I also had the test shut off at 75 and am convinced that I failed. I find out tomorrow. We'll see. I got about 15 SATA, 24 med questions, and several infection control questions. The truth is that I'm a great student, a very competent new nurse and that I just can't imagine that they could prove my incompetence in 75 questions. Wish me luck!:nurse:

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bfam4 did you get med questions of things that you heard of? i feel like i had your test.. with a bunch of med questions and a ton of sata.

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I took my Nclex yesterday, and I feel incredibly sick over it. It shut off at 75. I was in total and utter shock. I had a good amount of drugs I never heard of. That was fun. I had six math. Again fun, I was so nervous, I forgot how to do one, and ofcourse, they repeated the question with different numbers. The highlight of my exam were the 20 or so SATA. Needless to say I left there quite ill. My friend and I took it together and she told me I looked like I was about to die. Clearly that is what I feel like right now. I could not sleep last night. I have no idea how I will make it until tommorrow. I am going to drive everyone I know nuts until I find out. Naturally my friend got lucky, no math, no select all that apply, and 1 drop and drag. Ugggh! Why couldnt I be that lucky?

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Okay, so my story sounds very similar to a lot of your stories. By the 6th question I was getting harder questions and feeling pretty good about it remembering that this is computer adaptive, so it is SUPPOSED to get hard when you are doing well! But then I was getting one hard SATA after another, and I starting thinking that there is no way I am getting any of these right....so how on earth could I be getting 50% right 50% wrong? I was being asked to click all of the symptoms of a disease I had never even heard of! I ended up getting 25 SATAs!!! No math, lots of priorities, one delegation, and the kicker was towards the end..the questions started getting easier! By the end they were asking me basic nursing assessment skill questions and I was FREAKING OUT. And to top it off, after completing one of those easy ones, I realized I had missed it! And then I realized I had missed the last question! I left the place almost in tears and cried for hours, totally disappointed and in utter shock. The test was nothing like I had been trained for. I had done a bizillion practice question, but this real test was totally different! I continued to check the CA Board's website about every hours for two days (minus the 4-5 hours of sleep I got). I seriously have never been so neurotic about anything like this before. I even managed to remember 59 of the 75 questions to try and figure out if I got them right and what level question they were...I was going nuts. Anyways, I just found out this morning that I passed!!!!! I had 75 questions...

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I passed in 75 questions a few weeks ago. I had about 15 SATA, 2 med calcs, and 1 ordering question. I had about 6 or 7 medications that i've never heard of (1 of them came up twice!), a bunch of priority and infection control, but hardly any delegation. I had quite a bit of patient teaching and developmental levels. No OB, very little peds.

One piece of input I have is don't try to guess the level of difficulty of the question they are asking. I would read my question and go "crap, this isn't a priority so i must be failing". Don't worry about figuring out the difficulty of the questions, just read them carefully and pick the answer you feel is best. That was the biggest problem I had with the exam.

-Brittany

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I can't believe it! I just can't! It just does not feel real. I made my sister look for me. I just don't know how it is that I passed. This is such an amazing feeling that I thought would never come. I would love to relish in it, but unfortunately my friend who took it with me failed again. Ugggh! I would have almost rather have switched places. I am sooo happy. Good luck and God Bless, to all who are waiting on results, or who are about to take it!:nurse:

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Wish i had input but I fail the first with 120 questions :(

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Whew!!! I passed with 75 questions. Unbelievably hard, irrelevant test. But in the end, it found me competent. I still can't believe how many obscure med questions I got, but I keep thinking that maybe the bulk of them were the pilot questions. I guess I'll never know and thank God I don't have to do this again. Good luck to all of you who are waiting for your results. I can say that EVERY person in my class who has cut off at 75 has passed. :)

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I took my NCLEX RN exam on 8/6/08 in Roseville, California. The dang computer shut at 75 questions! I couldn't beleve it! I left totally convinced that I had failed the test miserably. There was no doubt in my mind that I had failed. I felt like such a loser. I even checked out to see when I could take the test again. I had so much riding on passing the test. I've been hired to go to work at Renown Hosptal in Reno, Nevada. I couldn't sleep, eat, or nothng else. I finally fell asleep sometime after midnight Friday Agust 6, 2008. I was sound asleep when I heard my husband yelling like a lunatic that I was a Registered Nurse!! I was in total disbelief. It wasn't until I saw it myself on the computer that I believed it. I thank God and all the people that prayed for me. Any of you that are waiting for your results try to stay positive which I know is practically impossible. Took the test on Wednesday and got my results on Saturday from the nursing board site.

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Hey,

What type of questions did you have on your test? Did you find out on a non-business day? So the site is updated on weekends? Took my test on Friday August 8. Just curious.....Thanks

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