75 questions.....please help!!!!!!

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I just took the NCLEX and it shut of @ 75 questions. I am convinced I failed! I read in my Kaplan book that if the computer shuts off @ 75 ques, then you were answering questions above the minimum competency level - so you passed, or below the competency level - do you failed. I guess I am just so confused, it didn't seem that hard, I seemed to know a lot of the answers or am I just deluding myself. I am worried sick, literally. I would really appreciate some insight.....

failed with 78 the first time, passed with 265 the 2nd time.

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welcome to the family!!!

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you passed! you should be happy...not worried. All nursing board exams want you to show them you meet the minimum competency.that you can render pt care by using your abc's and prioritize your patient care by utilizing the abc's of nursing.

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Congratulations!!..........Thanks heavens we only have to pass it once!!

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SWWEEEEEEETTT!!!

I love to hear success stories....I have one semester left till boards..........(you have given me hope for the near future:kiss )

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Mine shut off at 75 in about 45 minutes ... I passed the first time ... I took my test on a Tuesday and had my license in my hand that Friday. :chuckle

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mine shut off at 75...and i passed the first time.........i also kept checking my bon's web site ....when you pass they have it on the computer within 24 hours....so ....to be sneaky.......get on your bon web site ....type in your ss# to verify your liscence......and if it verifies your liscence then you passed......otherwise you wouldnt be liscenced .....the web sites update daily and you can generally find out 3 days faster bydoing this......just a little trick i learned

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mine shut off at 75...and i passed the first time.........i also kept checking my bon's web site ....when you pass they have it on the computer within 24 hours....so ....to be sneaky.......get on your bon web site ....type in your ss# to verify your liscence......and if it verifies your liscence then you passed......otherwise you wouldnt be liscenced .....the web sites update daily and you can generally find out 3 days faster bydoing this......just a little trick i learned:cool:

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you did great. Mine also cut off @75 questions. Dont worry.:chuckle

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Hi Charmed

I also only had 75 questions when I took the boards. This was more than a few years ago though.

I, too, obsessed. But I passed.

I'm sure you did fine.

Best of luck.

Cherry

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I am not sure how many of you are actually aware of how NCLEX calculates your exam..............................all nurses that take the exam get 50% right and 50% wrong. This is per NCLEX board if you don't believe me. What that means that after your first question in each area the questions prgressively get harder, too hard, and then it may get a little easier. They are not concerned with number correct, that is why each of you may have competed a different number of questions, but they want to know that you meet the standard of what they expect a nurse to know and be accountable for. For the most part, if you were able to complete the exam with just 75 questions you should consider that you passed, unless you had so many wrong answers that it just gave up.......................................................................

Good luck to ALL of you with your boards.

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I've tried to explain how this test works to many people that have asked me, and they don't "get it", it is truly the strangest test format I've ever run into....and the most difficult, its a one of a kind that's for sure!!

QUOTE]Originally posted by suzanne4

I am not sure how many of you are actually aware of how NCLEX calculates your exam..............................all nurses that take the exam get 50% right and 50% wrong. This is per NCLEX board if you don't believe me. What that means that after your first question in each area the questions prgressively get harder, too hard, and then it may get a little easier. They are not concerned with number correct, that is why each of you may have competed a different number of questions, but they want to know that you meet the standard of what they expect a nurse to know and be accountable for. For the most part, if you were able to complete the exam with just 75 questions you should consider that you passed, unless you had so many wrong answers that it just gave up.......................................................................

Good luck to ALL of you with your boards.

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