# of questions percentage

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I know this is not scientific or anything but I read on here somewhere statistics of what percent passed at what number of questions. I have been searching and cant find the post. Does anyone know what the percent is? I am most interested in what percent pass at 75 questions!!!!!!!

Thaniks in advance!!!

Mary Ann

Specializes in Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, NICU.

Hi there! Congrats NCLEX bound! I agree, change the name :) you;ve earned it. Just wanted to reply to the OP.

Last week my 4 friends and i faced NCLEX, all shut off at 75 questions, all PASSED :) The percentage is something like 90% pass at 75...good odds, but definitly not scientific!

Melissa, RN

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Thank you MommaMel!

Here is a sample of # of questions for the people in my class from who I know have taken it. From only the ones that I know.........

18 passed with 75 questions

1 failed with 75 questions

1 passed with 265 questions

1 passed with 80 questions

1 passed with 169 questions

For whatever it's worth, this is what I know so far about my graduating classmates! A lot of them haven't taken it yet.

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Specializes in Cardiac, Critical Care, LTC.

Hey NCLEXbound hurry up and change your name. LOL

You earn it hon.

May be something like mamaRN, yeah I like that, that fits your personality or sunshineRN that is cute to.

Congrats again

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My state doesnt support the rapid test results so we have to check to see if we have a license number on our state board of nursing website. Those people who took their test Monday found their license Tuesday night arount 11:30 pm. I took mine Tuesday so I will look tonight at 11:30 and hope to see a license number. I am starting to feel sick right now. I didnt even feel this bad while I was taking my test.

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My state doesnt support the rapid test results so we have to check to see if we have a license number on our state board of nursing website. Those people who took their test Monday found their license Tuesday night arount 11:30 pm. I took mine Tuesday so I will look tonight at 11:30 and hope to see a license number. I am starting to feel sick right now. I didnt even feel this bad while I was taking my test.

A couple of weeks ago my classmates license was posting on the BON first thing the morning after their test. Then last week it went to first thing in the morning two days later. Well hopefully mine will be up first thing in the morning tomorrow....three days later.

Thank goodness for quick results!!!!!

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OK, they didnt post last night like I expected. I stayed up till 1:30 and nothing. I will try it again tonight. I can't handle much more. I want to be an RN!!!!

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Hey NCLEXbound hurry up and change your name. LOL

You earn it hon.

May be something like mamaRN, yeah I like that, that fits your personality or sunshineRN that is cute to.

Congrats again

Nice and boring.....I changed it to Dawn, RN.!!!!!

ibmaryann, hang in there! It's coming soon!!!!

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I passed with 75 questions and a classmate of mine passed with 78 questions.

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:up: i know with Nclex-PN the pass rate is 95% proficiency rate and thats crazy to me but i guess though

Sorry, but that number is not correct by a long shot.

Not sure where these numbers are coming from.

To explain things to better understand what determines if one passes or does not pass the exam:

Each and every person that sits for the exam will get 50% correct and 50% incorrect. They then go by the level that you were getting the majority of the correct ones at. This determines if you passed or did not pass.

Number of questions has no bearing on the results, as well as if you got the last question correct or incorrect.

We have seen people pass with 75 questions and not pass with that, and the same holds true of the maximum number of questions for the exam.

Average passing rate for the US is in the mid to higher 80s, never in the 90s for any exam. And this is for the first time taker, percentages go down for each subsequent test that one writes.

Passing of the exam by a foreign trained nurse is about 45%, usually because if issues with language and/or medications.

SATA questions are also only format style question and are not indicative of the level of the question. Will depend on what is actually being asked.

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The hospital I am going to work for said that all graduate nurses had to have results from NCLEX by June 23 in order to start clinicals for nurse residnecy so I had to hurry up and take my exam. Any one elses hospital set a deadline? I am still going to check starting tonight around 11:00. I am so excited and scared.

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The hospital I am going to work for said that all graduate nurses had to have results from NCLEX by June 23 in order to start clinicals for nurse residnecy so I had to hurry up and take my exam. Any one elses hospital set a deadline? I am still going to check starting tonight around 11:00. I am so excited and scared.

My hospital set a deadline too. Incidentally...still no scores for me yet. torture.

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The hospital I am going to work for said that all graduate nurses had to have results from NCLEX by June 23 in order to start clinicals for nurse residnecy so I had to hurry up and take my exam. Any one elses hospital set a deadline? I am still going to check starting tonight around 11:00. I am so excited and scared.

I applied for one internship that wanted you to have your exam taken before the first day of internship, but I did not take that position, I took another one. The hospital I am going to did not have a time-frame.

In Texas you get a GN license for about 90 days. Most of the internships only required you to have your GN license for the internship. And all the job postings were for a "GN Internship", not RN. Some of my classmates did not want to sit for NCLEX until after a few weeks of internship hoping it would allow them to further their learning.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is: do all states issue a GN license upon graduation? And if not, is this why they are wanting you to take the exam before starting (so you would have some type of license)?

I just hope the time limit does not cause people to sit too early for the exam if they are not prepared!

P.S. with the GN license only being good for 90 days, I guess it is a time frame. It's just set by the state and not the facility.

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