Really discouraged after testing today

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I have been a lurker for some time but don't really post. I took my NCLEX this morning and am pretty positive that I bombed it. My test went for the full time and I finished the last question (265) with seconds to spare. I kept myself together until the last 20 questions or so and then pretty much fell apart. I started sweating, felt really sick and had to fight the urge to vomit and starting shaking. When I was done I barely completed the 19 feedback questions and checked out in a daze. I went to my car and just sobbed. I have never failed anything in my life and really didn't want the first failure to be this. :crying2:

I read Kaplan, Princeton Review, and Saunders cover to cover. I did practice questions and read my books before work, during lunch and then 4-6 hours a night. I really studied harder then I have for anything before. That includes my nursing exams which I passed with all a's and b's. I really did not expect this and am devastated. :cry:

I had about five math problems (all pediatric doses), tons of other meds (quite a few which I wasn't familiar with), what felt like tons of SATA questions, a bunch of priority questions and questions on what patient I would move to med surg over the other three.

I am completely let down and dejected. I was already planning on packing up the dogs and going camping for three days with my husband which will be a much needed break. I will try checking for my results in the morning before I go but I am 95% sure they will say I did not pass.

Any advice on where to go from here?

Amber

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Hang in there - I had heard that sometimes, by the luck of the draw, you can just get the full 265 questions. This could be your situation. I really think we all failed when we get done. Just wait and see.

Good Luck!! I will say a prayer. Prayers helped me SO MUCH!!!!

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Specializes in Clinical Nursing and OR Nursing.

Good luck and God bless to you Amber.:up:

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Warning: the post is bit pessimistic, so please try not to read it if u are tseting tomorrow or something.

:scrying:I tested yesterday and I felt the same way :cry: Now, I don't feel like saying anything, but just go into hiding :cry::cry::cry: I'm so afraid to even check the site. At times, I feel, maybe I passed, but more of the times, I feel, I failed. Yesterady was just a very horrible day for me. I cried for little bit - do not know what it is. If it was exhaustion ? :( I'm so afraid to check the website. I don't want to feel this again :crying2: But, I know my april Family, friends and everyone is praying for me, so that's keeping me hopeful, until I get the restult. I'm just thinking, it's probably already there on pearson vue with the words, passed or failed (the pearsonvue employee told me 2 days) so, it should be tomorrow. But I'm just afraid to check. I feel like why waste another money I don't have checking the pearsonvue just to see failed. So, I'm checking the BON site. Today, I almost got shocked coz I just saw the last name and it matched mine, I thought it was me, but it was someone else :crying2::crying2::crying2: For a second, I was like oh my God :(

I've just been through mixture of emotions and thinking what will happen? if I fail or if I pass.

I only got aroundI think 70-80 coz I wasn't keeping track of questions. I don't even know where the question number was. But, I was ready to sit for as much as 250, when the computer turned blue on me without even giving me 90, I felt helpless. I thought to myself, if it had given me more questions, atleast I'd have more chances :(. If I fail, I must be the most dumbest person in the world, even the computer will think that. Some of my non-nursing friends they don't get it. They tellme, u should know how u did it :( I juust want to cry, and then other times I'm fine. God is good. I got fill in the blanks only for me calculation questions (yes I got ped calculation questions too). Some of them were twisted in every possible way. one, I spent 10 minutes - calculated it 3-4 times to check the answer and make sure I got the same answer all times. 5-6 SATA, one sata was MED :banghead: I only got very few neuro and CV, more endocrine, musculoskeletal, some GI, some GU, quite a few Peds and Obe and Psych. I feel like my strength is psych and then it kept giving me psych quite a few, so I'm sitting there, what's going on?????? Most stupid thing is, one question had lab value and I read it as 500,000 when it was actually 50,000 :banghead::banghead: That one mistake I picked on (coz I was thnkign okay that's highhh, now what would I see when it's high, then I looked at it again and it was 50,000- as answers didn't make sense) oh God, that's one mistake I picked on. God knwos what I did or didn't do on the rest.

Infection questions quite a few, some delegations, some who would u see firsts or assess firsts, then some what will u do next? what's ur immediate action? the ones with lab values, I didn't get very many (thanks God). 5-6 Meds, maybe 1 or 2 recall, I think (Like okay this is the situation, now what s.s will u see? something like that.

So, right now I'm here lurking on the site :cry:. During exam, I was Okay. Although, not extremely comfortable like right now. But, I think it was the prayer from my April family and others and family, frineds and me that helped me stay calm during exam. But once I was out, I checked two questions (SATA - one drug and the other was Infection SATA), I know for sure those two I got wrong. Last question I'm not sure if it is right or wrong (I think it was an application question)

Last night couldn't really sleep. Today, I'll prolly sleep coz tomorrow God knows what will happen. But u know, I want to pass like everyone else ... I'm tierd of struggling.:crying2: - Vent. Thank you for reading it. And thank you to everyone for praying for me, that is all I got. If I pass, prayer is what saved me :icon_hug:

Good luck Amber, me and others who are waiting on our results and to the ones testing soon.

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Thanks for your replies. I am having a really hard time staying positive right now. My husband, bless his heart, is trying to cheer my up but doesn't really get it so it is kind of awkward. Luckily I have had some packing to do to get ready to leave in the morning so it has forced me to stay busy.

I too had a lot of infection questions. I really thought I knew that area but as more questions kept coming I am starting to think I really didn't. :nono: The med calculations were strange and there was one I almost confirmed my answer on before I realized that the med was mcg/kg/hr. That wasn't how I had calculated it. :banghead:

I really felt like such an idiot taking that test. Where did all the information I have learned go? I felt like the majority of the questions were quesses after rounding down to what I thought was the best answer based on concept, abc, maslow, etc...

I too am afraid to check the board for my results in the next few days but really just want to know for sure so I can start studying again. :no:

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Thanks for your replies. I am having a really hard time staying positive right now. My husband, bless his heart, is trying to cheer my up but doesn't really get it so it is kind of awkward. Luckily I have had some packing to do to get ready to leave in the morning so it has forced me to stay busy.

I too had a lot of infection questions. I really thought I knew that area but as more questions kept coming I am starting to think I really didn't. :nono: The med calculations were strange and there was one I almost confirmed my answer on before I realized that the med was mcg/kg/hr. That wasn't how I had calculated it. :banghead:

I really felt like such an idiot taking that test. Where did all the information I have learned go? I felt like the majority of the questions were quesses after rounding down to what I thought was the best answer based on concept, abc, maslow, etc...

I too am afraid to check the board for my results in the next few days but really just want to know for sure so I can start studying again. :no:

Hey amber07,

Keep your head up, you have completed the hardest part, the test. I know it is hard to get some peace of mind while those thoughts are running like crazy in your mind. Pray , pray, and then do some more praying. When you wake up on the morning, designate your husband to check it for you, while you get yourself ready in your mind , heart, and soul to hear those very words that you have been waiting for spoken from your husband's mouth to your ears : "YOU PASSED" YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish you the best of luck, as you are in my prayers:p

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Specializes in lots of specialties.

Im with you guys. I took mine today...got to 182 questions and ran out of time...again. I feel down because I busted my butt studying and I am thinking that I will have to do this again.Im just gonna have to see.

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Im with you guys. I took mine today...got to 182 questions and ran out of time...again. I feel down because I busted my butt studying and I am thinking that I will have to do this again.Im just gonna have to see.

Good luck to you SShannon81,

You are right when you said that you have busted your butt, and thats why you deserve to pass this test. God works tons of miracles a day. Believe in yourself, believe that you are one of those miracles. You will see your name there with an RN# , that way you can come back to this forum and tell us all about your victory:yeah:.

I am praying for you, try and get some sleep. I am pretty sure you are reading this now, which means you need to sleep:lol2:.

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Im with you guys. I took mine today...got to 182 questions and ran out of time...again. I feel down because I busted my butt studying and I am thinking that I will have to do this again.Im just gonna have to see.

I hope you all pass your NCLEX Exams today. Shannon it sounds like you second guess yourself a lot causing you to dwell on the questions too long. I found that if you read the answers first, then read the question, followed by the answers once more, it increased my comprehension of what was asked. Overall I found that this techniques saved me time; it was also recommended by a test prep service that I had. Just a suggestion, it worked for me and it was a recommendation of a test prep service that I took :heartbeat .

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Good luck

I failed with max questions and passed with max or near to max questions so can be done and a few have posted on passing with max. Please keep us in touch with how it goes for you

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Check your state BON website. I have read of people passing with 265 and failing with 265. I just passed last month with 75 questions. I really wondered whether I passed.

Best of Luck!

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Well I did not pass. :crying2: I pretty much knew that after I walked out of the testing center. Being out of town camping and relaxing with my family was a much needed break this weekend and the only thing that kept me sane.

I think that I spent too much time on content and not enough on doing questions. When I would take saunders tests and chapter reviews I usually got around 75% so I thought I was doing ok. I also think I rushed myself and tried to cram too much in too fast as I really wanted to be done studying. I want my life back.

So know I am trying to reformat my studying and come up with a new plan. The goal is to try again in early July.

I think I may look into Suzanne's plan. Any other suggestions or tips? I think I need to hit pharmacology more and work on SATA and priority questions. Does Kaplan have a lot of priority questions? It seems from the tests I have done with Saunders that they are more content based. What is good for priority, triage and meds?

I really want to get this done and need to find a way to pass this time around.

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