Took NCLEX PN Aug. 30th.....85 quest.

cjandval · Oct 9, 2008

tigerlily....hunneyrossi is absolutely correct. Don't worry about the things you don't know. Just review the best you can. In my opinion, nothing really prepares for you for the real NCLEX. Read her link and it will make you feel better. Just take your time in answering the questions and relax. Good luck and we will include you in our prayers!

tigerlily44 · Oct 9, 2008

Hey tigerlily, I'm in PA too...where are you located?? im outside philadelphia...
I didnt do the flashcards, but I did the saunders book...Im sure they're very similar...I did 3,260 (but who's counting) practice questions between saunders and mosby and I passed...I just took it like 2 weeks ago...You will be able to find out really soon if you passed...Pearson Vue will let Harrisburg know by Monday morning if you're taking it saturday...If you passed, it will show up by noon...But if its not there, don't freak, since its a saturday it may take til tuesday, but i doubt it...dont pay the extra money to find out, just go into pa state board of nursing and click on license verification on the left side...just type in your name and click search and it will show you your license info...you can also look up other people on that too...kinda weird...
anyway, I thought i prepared as best as I could and when i took the test i felt terrible..i had the highest GPA for the year in my whole class and i felt like i hadnt learned a thing after that test...you will get questions on nclex that you either dont know AT ALL or there are two good answers and you are totally TORN! i posted a link on my earlier comment and you MUST read this! I wish i had read this prior to my test because it would have made me feel a little smarter and have way more confidence during the exam...i felt like i almost gave up mentally by question 35 because there were NO questions on that test that I had done in my 3,260 practice questions...NONE! You cant spend your time trying to learn new things...just do the questions for practice and only look up things that you want to refresh on if you dont remember them while doing practice items...the day of the test you should not do any practice questions....just relax...but im sure you'll be fine!!! but PLEASE read that link because it is AMAZING! i was the first in my class to take the nclex test and i shared that with my class friends and it boosted everyones confidence-they all passed too!!! GOOD LUCK and please let me know how you do!!! :typing

I am in York, But grew up outside of Philly, (Bucks and Montgomery county) Thanks a lot for the words of encouragement. I do feel like I am going crazy trying to research everything I do not know. I am definatly going to try to stick with the questions. It just seems like it could be bad if I am already getting so many of the practice questions wrong. How long did you wait after graduation to take the test? I just graduated at the end of August. Thanks again!!

HUNEYROSSI · Oct 9, 2008

I am in York, But grew up outside of Philly, (Bucks and Montgomery county) Thanks a lot for the words of encouragement. I do feel like I am going crazy trying to research everything I do not know. I am definatly going to try to stick with the questions. It just seems like it could be bad if I am already getting so many of the practice questions wrong. How long did you wait after graduation to take the test? I just graduated at the end of August. Thanks again!!

HEY, I'm in montgomery county!!! I live in Abington!

Don't pay any attention to what you get wrong, just learn from it...I read the explanations and just took it with a grain of salt...Sometimes I did really well, other times I didnt...I graduated August 28th and took the test on September 24, so it wasnt long...I went crazy studying and reading things that didn't even help...My friend just took hers yesterday and already knows she passed and she did 100 practice questions! Can you believe that? Of all my friends that just took it, all of us think we prob could have passed even without studying...honestly, practice is just that, practice. you arent learning anything knew, just how to DO questions critically...and im telling you, you wont see any questions like you saw in saunders and they wont even be worded the same way....its like no other test you will ever take. just try and learn from your mistakes now...this is what that link said:

The goal of Computerized Adaptive Testing or CAT, is to determine your competence, based on the difficulty of questions you can answer correctly, NOT how many questions you can answer correctly. CAT examinations are individualized.

Picture the questions all lined up, from easiest to hardest. If we asked you the easiest questions, you'd get most of them right. If we asked you the hardest, you would probably get most wrong. As we move from easy to hard, there will come a point where you go from getting more right, to getting more wrong. This is the point where you are answering 50% correctly. Questions harder than that, you would probably answer incorrectly (you'd get some right, but more wrong); questions easier than that, you would probably answer correctly. That point is different for everyone. Nursing experts could probably answer at least one-half of the hardest questions we could ask. Whereas, we'd have to ask beginning nursing students the very easiest ones before they could answer even one-half correctly. You probably fall somewhere between those two points. The goal of CAT is to find that point for you. Your competence level is related to the difficulty level of the questions at the point where you can answer half of the questions correctly. First, the computer asks a relatively easy question, and if you answer it correctly, it asks a somewhat harder question. As you continue answering correctly, the questions get harder and harder. When you start missing questions, they get easier until you start answering them right again, then they get a little harder. Each time you answer one correctly, the next is harder. Each time you answer one incorrectly, the next is easier. This process continues as it zig-zags, narrowing in on the point where you answer 50% correctly, e.g., one right, then one wrong. That point represents your competence level. This is why everyone ends up correctly answering 50% of the questions they are asked. After you have answered the minimum number of questions, the computer compares your competence level to the passing standard, if you are clearly above the passing standard, you pass and the examination ends, if you are clearly below the passing standard, then you fail and the examination ends, if your competence level is close enought to the passing standard that it's still not clear whether you should pass or not, then the computer continues to ask you questions. "Clearly" passing or failing is defined as when the "gray zone" around your competence level falls entirely above or below the passing standard. The gray zone is the region within which your competence level might vary if you answer more questions. The gray zone shrinks a little after each question because your competence level is based on more information. If you can answer the difficult questions correctly, there's no point in wasting your time giving you a lot of easy questions. Or, if you can't answer the easy ones correctly, then you won't be able to answer the difficult ones. In fact, the computer often could make a decision after less than the minimum of 60 questions, but 60 is necessary to ensure coverage of the NCLEX Test Plan. There are 25 "practice questions" built into the test to determine your "level"...so those 60 plus the 25 practice would equal the minimum of 85

DOES THIS HELP?!?!

This is from the actual people who make the NCLEX test!! They wrote this to another LPN who didnt know why her test was SO easy, yet she failed it

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tilapia05 · Oct 9, 2008

tigerlily....hunneyrossi is absolutely correct. Don't worry about the things you don't know. Just review the best you can. In my opinion, nothing really prepares for you for the real NCLEX. Read her link and it will make you feel better. Just take your time in answering the questions and relax. Good luck and we will include you in our prayers!

Still waiting huh?

We are still praying for everybody that is waiting for their result.

BTW, called BON today, they are processing Sep 5-6, soon it will be for Sept 9 cjandval...will you please update us as soon as you hear something? Thanks!

tilapia05 · Oct 9, 2008

Huneyrossi, you are absolutely right. I do not think anything can really prepare us for the real NCLEX....all that we can do is believe in ourselves that we studied enough and not go there blindly. It is also very important (from my point of view) to be very positive. Do not even think of the number of questions that you are going to be asked. Think of the questions one at a time and try to eliminate two choices right off the bat. Also, when you are feeling anxious, take a break and take deep breaths and tell yourself that you can do it. I think that will help out a lot! God bless us all! please do pray for everyone that are waiting for their results. Thanks in advance!

LolaKabob · Oct 9, 2008

tigerlily, i just took the nclex exam on tuesday and i too studied the flashcards you have as well as read a million page book on nclex prep. i left the test feeling like i guessed on a lotttt of the questions and could not tell the difference of which questions were the hard ones and which ones were the easy ones! now i just have to play the waiting game and pray i made it. my questions stopped at 85...

cjandval · Oct 9, 2008

tilapia05,

Yes, still waiting....but we are getting closer. I hope we get our results next week. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time! I will update you guy as soon as I know. Please do the same and thanks for the update re: which dates are being processed. Hope the next time we hear from each other it will be good news!

Cjandval

tigerlily44 · Oct 9, 2008

HEY, I'm in montgomery county!!! I live in Abington!
Don't pay any attention to what you get wrong, just learn from it...I read the explanations and just took it with a grain of salt...Sometimes I did really well, other times I didnt...I graduated August 28th and took the test on September 24, so it wasnt long...I went crazy studying and reading things that didn't even help...My friend just took hers yesterday and already knows she passed and she did 100 practice questions! Can you believe that? Of all my friends that just took it, all of us think we prob could have passed even without studying...honestly, practice is just that, practice. you arent learning anything knew, just how to DO questions critically...and im telling you, you wont see any questions like you saw in saunders and they wont even be worded the same way....its like no other test you will ever take. just try and learn from your mistakes now...this is what that link said:
The goal of Computerized Adaptive Testing or CAT, is to determine your competence, based on the difficulty of questions you can answer correctly, NOT how many questions you can answer correctly. CAT examinations are individualized.
Picture the questions all lined up, from easiest to hardest. If we asked you the easiest questions, you'd get most of them right. If we asked you the hardest, you would probably get most wrong. As we move from easy to hard, there will come a point where you go from getting more right, to getting more wrong. This is the point where you are answering 50% correctly. Questions harder than that, you would probably answer incorrectly (you'd get some right, but more wrong); questions easier than that, you would probably answer correctly. That point is different for everyone. Nursing experts could probably answer at least one-half of the hardest questions we could ask. Whereas, we'd have to ask beginning nursing students the very easiest ones before they could answer even one-half correctly. You probably fall somewhere between those two points. The goal of CAT is to find that point for you. Your competence level is related to the difficulty level of the questions at the point where you can answer half of the questions correctly. First, the computer asks a relatively easy question, and if you answer it correctly, it asks a somewhat harder question. As you continue answering correctly, the questions get harder and harder. When you start missing questions, they get easier until you start answering them right again, then they get a little harder. Each time you answer one correctly, the next is harder. Each time you answer one incorrectly, the next is easier. This process continues as it zig-zags, narrowing in on the point where you answer 50% correctly, e.g., one right, then one wrong. That point represents your competence level. This is why everyone ends up correctly answering 50% of the questions they are asked. After you have answered the minimum number of questions, the computer compares your competence level to the passing standard, if you are clearly above the passing standard, you pass and the examination ends, if you are clearly below the passing standard, then you fail and the examination ends, if your competence level is close enought to the passing standard that it's still not clear whether you should pass or not, then the computer continues to ask you questions. "Clearly" passing or failing is defined as when the "gray zone" around your competence level falls entirely above or below the passing standard. The gray zone is the region within which your competence level might vary if you answer more questions. The gray zone shrinks a little after each question because your competence level is based on more information. If you can answer the difficult questions correctly, there's no point in wasting your time giving you a lot of easy questions. Or, if you can't answer the easy ones correctly, then you won't be able to answer the difficult ones. In fact, the computer often could make a decision after less than the minimum of 60 questions, but 60 is necessary to ensure coverage of the NCLEX Test Plan. There are 25 "practice questions" built into the test to determine your "level"...so those 60 plus the 25 practice would equal the minimum of 85
DOES THIS HELP?!?!
This is from the actual people who make the NCLEX test!! They wrote this to another LPN who didnt know why her test was SO easy, yet she failed it
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:bow: It helps immensely! Thank you so much, I graduated Aug 27th, and this was the earliest test date I could get!! I do feel quite a bit relieved after reading this. Thanks again!! PS I know where Abington is!!

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tilapia05 · Oct 10, 2008

tilapia05,
Yes, still waiting....but we are getting closer. I hope we get our results next week. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time! I will update you guy as soon as I know. Please do the same and thanks for the update re: which dates are being processed. Hope the next time we hear from each other it will be good news!
Cjandval

Will try to call again today...but, you are right, all we have to do now is wait, wait and wait...I am so nervous....

God bless us all!

angbowd · Oct 10, 2008

took the wonderful nclex pn today and shut off at 85 questions, having mixxed emotions on how i did! there were some i didnt know and yet some i did! do alot of people fail with 85 quesions??