The Waiting is the Hardest Part!

[Texasdude]

Took NCLEX yesterday. I have only checked to see if Quick Results were available 452 times! Tom Petty once said..."the waiting is the hardest part!" Only 24 hours to go. Hurry, hurry, hurry! I know you can do the PVT but I don't wanna do that nor would I rely on it. I just want to KNOW it's over so I can start a new chapter of my life!

[erickz623]

I passed!!!!!!!!!!! :):):)....woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations, RN! Huge relief, isn't it?

[Texasdude]

Congratulations, RN! Huge relief, isn't it?

Yes, it is!

FREE OBSERVATION for those about to test! With this test there are few absolutes! All testing experiences are different. Me comparing my test to yours is worse than comparing apples to oranges. It is like comparing apples to fiber glass! For me PERSONALLY, it boiled down to anxiety. I think that even if someone did not do all that hot in nursing school, in most cases they can pass if they keep their anxiety level under control. You can graduate with honors, but if you can't keep it together during the test and also realize that you are going to get a lot of questions wrong, you can become nervous and spiral down so fast it will make your head spin! For me, once I got my anxiety under control (took me 10 minutes to answer the first question) I was fine. Had 75 questions, felt like I passed and I went home. Had I just started answering questions and stayed nervous I would have failed or at the least been there a whole lot longer. My friend that went at the same time had 265 questions but I think he was flipping out some. I think the anxiety was the only explanation because he had the grades. Strange experience. Advice I would give to someone: don't let not knowing a lot of the material throw you. If you don't know the answer, choose to the best of your ability, click the next button and don't drag the anxiety from the previous question to the new question. That is what I did. You may have to do it a lot more often than you want to. But realize that 15 of the questions are pilot questions and you only have to get half of the other questions correct and above the passing level. That said, you could potentially get 45 out of 75 of the questions wrong and still pass. That was hard on my mind but once I accepted that, I knocked it right out! FOCUSED on what I knew, not what I didn't know!!!