Okay if you just took the nclex and are freaking out, about to puke your guts up, can't eat, sleep, think, going to the bathroom a lot more often, maybe telling yourself you are an idiot and you can't believe you just blew it?! Well that was me 48 hours ago all the way up until 1:30 yesterday. We have quick result here in Ohio and I finished my test at 11:30 on the 8th and my "licensed" results were posted to the board around 1:30 on the 9th. I SERIOUSLY thought I blew it and I am normally an optimist. I wanted to quit the test or start guessing or yell at somebody b/c I thought it was ridiculous. I had like three med questions of drugs I had NEVER heard of. Then total I think I had like 10 new format questions. Three fill in the blank and 7 check all that apply which were harder than heck. Then my math problems were confusing and I figured they would be easy! Every question seemed to have 2 right answer and it was like a 50/50 evertyime! It was pure torcher. I was pretty sure I got maybe 10 right for sure. When the computer shut off at 82 questions I thought yup that's it, it thinks I'm really stupid and there goes my dreams I couldn't even look at the administrators when I was leaving, I was shaking so bad I couldn't put the key in the locker, dropped my purse, and held my breath while trying not to cry all the way out to the parking lot. I could see my heart pounding through my shirt. MAJOR anxiety. When I got onto the main highway I put my sunglasses on and allowed the tears to flow and flow and flow! Then I felt relieved but sick at my stomach just b/c I KNEW I flunked. I seriously don't know how I passed. They say the minimum number of ?'s you get the better off you are. Well yea as long as you got the harder ones right or at least quite a few of them. Then I figured I just got them wrong so it shut off so soon. Turns out I must have done pretty okay b/c it took me about 2 hours and I had 82 questions. So I guess the # of ?'s does determine in a sense pass or fail b/c the computer can make its mind up on your few answered b/c you are doing well or you are "iffy" so it keeps going. Either way it works with you which is a good thing. So if you get a lot of ?'s don't freak out it's probably just waiting for you to get to a passing poing b/c it wants you to be a nurse :wink2: So if you are getting ready or just took the nclex, calm down, breathe, do something nice for yourself. If you made it through nursing school and have the desire to be a nurse then you will be fine. If by chance you are too, too nervous (I was) or maybe just not a good test taker, give it another shot if you truly want to be a nurse DONT give up and you will be there. So good luck to all of you and be sure to be the best nurse that you can be and don't take your license for granted :wink2: Bye
:down:I took the nclex exam yesterday aug 11, checked the pearson vue trick reregister then it lead me all the way to credit card info, so im expecting that i failed the exam...
I am with you... same thing here. Just too NCLEX this AM... stopped at like 80 questions. Felt confident on maybe 10 of them, if I am luck.... its so funny- when I went into take the exam I was so worked up he asked for my right palm and I gave him my left... duh!! .
So I am playing the waiting game... the pearson vue trick says I passed but I am thinking there is NO FREAKING WAY!!! I am hoping so because I don't ever want to go thru that again! Nor, do I know how I would even study b/c I am not sure me studying even helped with some of those ridiculous questions. I am normally a B-C student and I am feeling like a total failure right about now.... Well, I should know tomorrow or Saturday....
I took NCLEX RN on Aug 2nd and I was a wreck. I got 75 questions and thought for sure that I had failed. I had the worst morning ever that morning and the guy had to tell me how to scan my palm a couple of times to I was so nervous. I had no idea what to think when I took that test. There was a ton of SATA and priority and teaching. I came home and tried the PVT and did it wrong so I thought that I had failed. I was a wreck everyone was calling me to see how I did and I had to tell them that I failed. I spent the day in pure misery. It wasn't until I went to register to retake the exam that I went thru enough of the registration process to get the good pop up I thought that it was not supposed to let you begin the registration process at all so when it let me start to re register I freaked out. So I got my results 48 hrs later and it said that I passed. I got my actual license on my birthday and that was the best birthday present ever. Good luck to all that are taking the NCLEX and remember I am sure you did better then you think almost everyone swears that they failed when they take it and more often then not they find out that they did pass.
Wow, this was posted back in 2005!! Well today is 9/6/11 and I just finished taking my exam. I got 75 questions and like pretty much everyone else here I had 6 or 7 SATA, several medications that I had no idea what they were and 1 math question that was very, very easy, (This is probably the only question that I got right). I did the entire exam within 1 and half hours. I minimized the time and question counter because I knew that would make me more nervous, but after a while I check on how many questions I already did. I was on 73, I minimized it again and after a couple of more questions the computer stopped. My heart dropped!!! I walked out of the building and called my husband. I right away told him that I FAILED!! He was at work so I wasnt able to talk to him that long so I started to call people that knew that I took the exam today, anyone that has time to listen to me FREAK OUT!!
I am a nervous wreck. I want to try that Pearson Revue trick but I am too anxious to try. I guess all I can do is pray.
OMG!! I couldnt take it anymore so this morning with my husband I tried it and I got the "good pop up". When I saw it I quickly closed it and started to cry uncontrollably, I turned around and hugged my husband. When I was able to speak, I had to make sure that what I read was correct so I went through the PVT again and made my husband read it. Yup, it said it. I hope this is true. I dont want to try it again because I am scared that it will change and I will have to enter my cc information. I have until tomorrow afternoon for me to see if it is. I just want to say that it is a comfort to find this website, so I know that I am not the only one going through all of these emotions and experiences.
I couldn't even look at the administrators when I was leaving, I was shaking so bad I couldn't put the key in the locker, dropped my purse, and held my breath while trying not to cry all the way out to the parking lot. I could see my heart pounding through my shirt. MAJOR anxiety. When I got onto the main highway I put my sunglasses on and allowed the tears to flow and flow and flow! Then I felt relieved but sick at my stomach just b/c I KNEW I flunked. I seriously don't know how I passed. They say the minimum number of ?'s you get the better off you are. Well yea as long as you got the harder ones right or at least quite a few of them. Then I figured I just got them wrong so it shut off so soon. Turns out I must have done pretty okay b/c it took me about 2 hours and I had 82 questions. So I guess the # of ?'s does determine in a sense pass or fail b/c the computer can make its mind up on your few answered b/c you are doing well or you are "iffy" so it keeps going. Either way it works with you which is a good thing. So if you get a lot of ?'s don't freak out it's probably just waiting for you to get to a passing poing b/c it wants you to be a nurse :wink2: So if you are getting ready or just took the nclex, calm down, breathe, do something nice for yourself. If you made it through nursing school and have the desire to be a nurse then you will be fine. If by chance you are too, too nervous (I was) or maybe just not a good test taker, give it another shot if you truly want to be a nurse DONT give up and you will be there. So good luck to all of you and be sure to be the best nurse that you can be and don't take your license for granted :wink2: Bye 
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Well, I should know tomorrow or Saturday....
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:down:I took the nclex exam yesterday aug 11, checked the pearson vue trick reregister then it lead me all the way to credit card info, so im expecting that i failed the exam...
