SATA(s) and math questions

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... so anyway, I had been lurking in this forum for a while trying to learn all I could about how the nclex was scored, & here is what happened to me.

I tested yesterday afternoon, & right out of the gate, 2cond or 3rd question, I got a math question; after that, my next hit was a SATA. Overall, I got a total of only 6 SATAs & I got a whopping 4 or 5 math questions. One of the math questions was a ridiculously easy ratio & proportion question (ordered is x number of mg, nurse has a vial of so many ml w/ so many mg in it, how many ml does nurse draw up) that came somewhere in the middle of the test, making me think I am bombing real bad, because it's so easy. All the rest of the math is to the effect of: ordered is so many mcg/kg/min, on hand is so many mg in so many ml, so how many ml/hr? In between are mainly questions pertaining to meds that are basically, for me, sounding pretty obscure (making me think my best guess is not even an educated one) and priority questions where I really can't pick out a definitive priority one way or another. #75 is my 6th and last SATA (something about Addison's), & then the screen goes kerplewy, & I am positive I bombed, & not only that, getting 75 questions was only a gift they were required to give me because I bombed so bad.

But, unless the state BON screwed up, & they are going to recant it next week, they are showing my active RN number on their web-site today. So I am surprised, because I was positive that I failed, & failed rather badly at that, but I would have to say that what Suzanne has been typing must be absolutely correct, & this tale reinforces it.

(Unless, of course, the BON changes their mind next week.)

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Congrats

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Congrats

Oh, hey, thank you, Silverdragon. I'm still about halfway thinking I am going to check next week & the BON is going to have changed their mind.

Matt

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All get 50% correct and 50% incorrect on the exam; and most come out with the same feeling that you had.

You have had a license number assigned to you, so therefore you now hold a license as a nurse.

Congratulations and best of luck to you.

(And thanks for backing up what I have been saying all along.)

:nurse::nurse::nurse::nurse:

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All get 50% correct and 50% incorrect on the exam; and most come out with the same feeling that you had.

You have had a license number assigned to you, so therefore you now hold a license as a nurse.

Congratulations and best of luck to you.

(And thanks for backing up what I have been saying all along.)

:nurse::nurse::nurse::nurse:

Thank you, Suzzane!

Matt

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matt,

congratulations on becoming an rn!!! i wish you the best success in your nursing career! :) :up:

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matt,

congratulations on becoming an rn!!! i wish you the best success in your nursing career! :) :up:

thank you!!!!

matt

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Congratulations Matt!! Good luck in your nursing career. :yeah:

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(Unless, of course, the BON changes their mind next week.)

LOL! I felt the same way. I also had 75 questions, including a couple of similar med math mcg/kg/min to ml/hr questions ... after I came home I determined that yes, I got both of them correct. :D That made me feel better, but I was still wondering if I failed. And once I showed up on the BON's website with a license number, I kept thinking they'd change their minds! But they didn't, and I got my RN license in the mail after a week.

I was told by friends that most people will feel like they failed when they walk out of the test site, but I wasn't truly prepared to feel that way .... but the next thing I knew, I was thinking I either passed, or screwed up very, very badly, and I wasn't sure either way.

Congrats to you!!! :)

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so matt 59...you found out yoiu passed the very next day?

nice!!

do they post numbers on saturdays too? does anyone know....suzane?

thanks

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Congratulations Matt!! Good luck in your nursing career. :yeah:

Thank you!!

Matt

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LOL! I felt the same way. I also had 75 questions, including a couple of similar med math mcg/kg/min to ml/hr questions ... after I came home I determined that yes, I got both of them correct. :D That made me feel better, but I was still wondering if I failed. And once I showed up on the BON's website with a license number, I kept thinking they'd change their minds! But they didn't, and I got my RN license in the mail after a week.

I was told by friends that most people will feel like they failed when they walk out of the test site, but I wasn't truly prepared to feel that way .... but the next thing I knew, I was thinking I either passed, or screwed up very, very badly, and I wasn't sure either way.

Congrats to you!!! :)

Thank you for the congrats!

Anyway, your post pretty much sums up the way I felt, except for not being sure whether I passed--I knew I had failed.

I was so sure of failing, that I would have taken action up to a thousand bucks on it; after all, if I would have failed, I'd have gladly paid a thousand bucks for a course that would gaurantee me passing.

But all I wound up losing was a case of beer, & that's a bet I am ecstatic to have lost!

Matt

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