I took the exam this morning and about two and a half hours in it shut off around 130 questions. The last four questions I answered were SATA which I don't think anyone is extremely comfortable with but they were also topics I'm not particularly comfortable with so right away I felt awful I went home and sure enough the good pop didn't show. I practiced with Kaplan and my grades ranged from high 50s to high 60s with a 67% on the readiness and from my understanding these grades reflect a relatively good readiness for the NCLEX. Anyway if anyone has gone through a similar experience and managed to pass the second time around and could tell me what they would recommend? I've read something about Suzanne's plan being particularly helpful for first time failures but I understand this plan isn't available anymore. That being said does anyone know of a practice plan similar to Suzanne's and if so could you share it with me and tell me were to find it?
Hey everyone I am really feeling like something that just came out the bottom of a jeri. patient. So I took the nclex this morning for my second time, why you fail the first time? right... well I was overly confident and did not study pretty much what so ever the first time. So this time I studied hard as heck... I took the nclex this morning at 8:00 am in sunny cali on 10/28/2014. so im a veteran who suffers from anxiety so you can imagine how I felt after... I thought and still think that I passed this time... but because of my anxiety I had to know now, so because they don't have the early notice here in cali I tried the PVT trick... it let me go all the way through and it has pretty much broken me down! I was wondering if anyone else has tried the pvt today that believed they passed got the same results as I did as that would mean that would give me back some hope... thanx guys and gals!
I did get quite a few sata and only one put in order... and lots of pretty hard critical thinking... I was very confident calm and ready for this test during the test and didn't let my anxiety get the best of me this time during the test. I really do feel as if I did well on this one unlike the last time I took it. I guess im just super depressed, headache and tired as ever. As far as sata I mean I got about 15+ and the nclex shut off on me at 87 questions I was 2 hrs in and that was it. I wonder why it shut off at 87 that's quite random... I mean everyone I know went to the end or shut off at 85 like it did to me the last time I took it. So can any one explain why 87 such a random number it is playing with my head... thanx
....the nclex shut off on me at 87 questions I was 2 hrs in and that was it. I wonder why it shut off at 87 that's quite random... I mean everyone I know went to the end or shut off at 85 like it did to me the last time I took it. So can any one explain why 87 such a random number it is playing with my head... thanx
Sure, it's very easy to explain: it took 87 questions for the computer to deem you either competent or incompetent. Shutting off at 85 typically means the person was doing so well they proved this before 85 questions (assuming this was the PN exam?) and the minimum number of questions must still be asked. In your case, you either did very well and it deemed you competent quickly....or very poorly and it deemed you incompetent pretty quickly.
The CAT system can give ANY number between minimum and maximum.
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Hey everyone I am really feeling like something that just came out the bottom of a jeri. patient. So I took the nclex this morning for my second time, why you fail the first time? right... well I was overly confident and did not study pretty much what so ever the first time. So this time I studied hard as heck... I took the nclex this morning at 8:00 am in sunny cali on 10/28/2014. so im a veteran who suffers from anxiety so you can imagine how I felt after... I thought and still think that I passed this time... but because of my anxiety I had to know now, so because they don't have the early notice here in cali I tried the PVT trick... it let me go all the way through and it has pretty much broken me down! I was wondering if anyone else has tried the pvt today that believed they passed got the same results as I did as that would mean that would give me back some hope... thanx guys and gals!