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Why is it that you can't see your actually results for this test.. Are the so called graph? That seem fishy..and how come you can do a whole test.. And pass or fail.. By the determination if it above the line or under the line..Now ,that's really showing my nursing knowledge$$$$$$. I'm just a concern test taker.. A lot of money is being made .and I don't think it's about safety or competent nurse.. Because we still continue to have many nurses that can pass this but still making neg decision.. Are don't even know what they are doing..

OP, how one manages to pass the NCLEX is not a secret. There are no secrets concerning how the test works. There is no conspiracy in action. There is nothing to "get out in the open" as you say, as there is nothing secretive.

In reading your posts, it appears that you believe that you are the only one to date who recognizes the massive deception that is the NCLEX. How is it that you believe only YOU are smart enough to figure out this Master Plan that is secretly a hoax, nothing more than a fraudulent money maker..... yet are unable to pass the minimum competency exam itself?

Perhaps harboring delusions is an impediment to successfully navigating the NCLEX. And maybe this isn't a bad thing.......

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I agree...... OP could have taught a 2- day live "HURST REVIEW" by now.

NEWSFLASH......... You are not unique. Study and pass= NURSE

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We are rather spoiled with our 48hrs quick results and 45 day retesting if failed. Wow! Great post! It makes me feel lucky about my current situation!

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I wonder the same thing.. according to what I read how statistically one can fail at 75 questions when that is not even half the test.I have read that the average is 50 percent. Of that's the case people should fairly get another 60 questions before it shuts off to be fair. There still is another 190 questions for one to prove competence... Sounds like a sham to me.

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.
I wonder the same thing.. according to what I read how statistically one can fail at 75 questions when that is not even half the test.I have read that the average is 50 percent. Of that's the case people should fairly get another 60 questions before it shuts off to be fair. There still is another 190 questions for one to prove competence... Sounds like a sham to me.

You need to understand how adaptive testing works. You're given a question to start the exam. If you get it right, you get a more difficult question. If it's wrong, you get an easier one. You have to keep answering questions correctly that are above the minimally competent passing line.

So, if you start off on the wrong foot, you can easily dig yourself into a hole that's harder to climb out of until the computer determines that there's no way you can pass. That's how it can shut off at 75 questions with a fail.

If you go further & further along in the exam (past 75), you're probably wavering back & forth between correct and incorrect answers. Once you start stringing correct answers, the exam will stop and you pass. Likewise, if you string incorrect answers, you fail.

It's not a sham, it's an algorithm.

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Please go on this official website and read this though as well as watch the videos.

https://www.ncsbn.org/1216.htm

P.S. Using the OP's logic, who is to say that some nursing schools are not involved in this "conspiracy theory" by letting students graduate with a C+ or B- (whatever they count as a pass).

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But technically even if you get all 75 questions wrong you can still eventually dig yourself out. Which is why I don't think it should shut off at 75 for a fail...highly unlikely but possible.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

^^^Huh? If by question 75 the system has determined you are not competent, it shuts off and you have failed. Take another look at NCSBN for a better explanation

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But technically even if you get all 75 questions wrong you can still eventually dig yourself out. Which is why I don't think it should shut off at 75 for a fail...highly unlikely but possible.

No, you cannot. If you got all 75 questions wrong, the level of difficulty you would be at would essentially be whether you could spell your own name correctly. IOW, you would be woefully incompetent at the easiest questions; you could not possibly pass (not "highly unlikely but possible"; it would be impossible at that point).

Please read the links provided to you so you can better understand how this test works, that it isn't a matter of getting a certain number of questions right or wrong. You seem to be operating under the misconception that you only get "half the test" at 75 questions....until you understand CAT, you won't understand why what you're saying isn't close to correct.

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I thought "back in the day" you could re-take a section that you failed and not have to repeat the whole test. Everything was broken down into sections like Psych, OB, Med Surg, etc. Or so that's what my mom told me. She would have taken the test in 1972. :sneaky:

This is correct. You still failed the entire test (as in were not allowed to practice or call yourself an RN) until you received a passing score on the section you failed.

Retakes were given with the regular testing just twice yearly. You only had to retake the sections you failed. I believe my state had a limit on the number of retakes.

California and New York required a higher passing score to practice in their state.

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Hi all!!

I have a question. Do you guys know/ ever heard of anyone who passed with 75 questions BUT with only 10-12 sleect all that apply. No right?

Also results on hold-- whats that all about.

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Hi all!!

I have a question. Do you guys know/ ever heard of anyone who passed with 75 questions BUT with only 10-12 sleect all that apply. No right?

Also results on hold-- whats that all about.

Yes - the number of SATA does not indicate how well/poorly you're doing.

Results on hold could vary. Call your state BON. :)

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