Nclex shut off at 75 questions!!

I am positive I failed because those questions were really hard.

I will tell the same answer that the previous 1000 threads about the test stopping at 75 questions and they KNOW they failed because the questions were hard.

NCLEX is a computer adaptive test. It needs to find the highest difficulty that you consistently answer right. It does not give you random questions varying in difficulty. Every question you answer correctly will cause the next question to be a little more difficult. Once it has determined the level of difficulty that you can consistently answer correctly (after 75 questions) it shuts off. The most reliable indication of pass/fail AT 75 questions is nursing school performance. If you went to a school with a high NCLEX pass rate and you did very well in school, it is highly unlikely that an A student would fail NCLEX at 75 questions. It would mean that you failed so poorly that the computer determined that no matter how many questions it gave you, you would not pass.

I hope you pass. Don't stress yourself so much until you see your result, you might pass, Just keep hope alive and wait to see what happens. Goodluck to you.