Ran out of time on nclex

[Swera]

I'm sorry if a thread like this has been made before and I am fine if this one gets locked or removed in time as well.

I said that when I take my NCLEX, pass or fail, I would leave a message on these boards. I had never felt ready for my exam and constantly found myself googling for stories of people who felt the same or for people who got a certain amount of questions or even scored badly on Kaplan.

My Kaplan scores were as follows:

Q1: 65.3

Q2: 62.7

Q3: did not do

Q4: 56

Q5: 56

Q6: 58

Q7: did not complete

I am a very slow reader and I noticed I did better when I took my time on exams, but time was always an issue for me. Most of my studying came from taking exams and reading rationales because it took me sooo long to complete. I didn't want to reschedule my exam for another month away, so I thought I'd just go in and give it all I've got. Studying, I spent majority of the time reading rationales rather than focusing on my scores as I learned from here how scores do not guarantee success or failure. I also used HURST, but only got through one round of content videos and took my time on the book. Only completed about 400 questions from Kaplan QBank and my score was generally lower than my question trainers.

I ran out of time on my NCLEX exam and went well over 200 questions. I stayed positive all throughout the exam and was mortified for two days to the point of making myself sick. Terrified beyond belief, I bought my quick results (too scared to do the PearsonVue Trick) and found out i PASSED my exam!

I really want to thank this site for all the helpful hints, random facts, study guides and stories of encouragement that I had received even though they were not directed necessarily towards me. I truly think I would not have walked into the testing center with the amount of positivity I did had I not come across this site.

I also wanted anyone else going through the same thing I did to know that regardless of your scores, if you put forth the effort to succeed in the way that works best for YOU, you WILL succeed. Don't doubt your abilities and know that you know much more than you think. Stay calm, cool and collected and give it your all! I worked my butt off but learned the value of personal time as well from this site and how to avoid burnout. So thank you AllNurses.com for helping me pass my NCLEX exam!

[rainbowl]

Congratulations!

[Niks09]

Congrats!!!!! Hard work pays off!! Best wishes to you!

[Lilianne]

My Kaplan scores are almost identical to yours! I test on the 26th and was thinking of rescheduling after just getting a 56 on q trainer 5 but after reading your post I've decided not to! Thank you