took nclex today 251 q's???

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 19, 2006

I just took the nclex today and had 251 questions. i felt like if they were going to keep me that long then give me the 265. it was sooo long. does it mean if you have math that you automaticaly failed??? i had a ton of priority,delegation,ob meds, and so on. but then i had 2 iv drips, and a bunch of selct all that apply. anyone who has gotten over 75 how do your questions go do you feel like you are all over the board because you are ther forever or was it just me? i need feedback. thank guys. i am freaking out.

Don't freak out. :)

I say this as someone who is quietly, MILDLY freaking out, lol....see my other threads!

Anyway, getting math or not getting math means nothing. Zip. Passers get math, failers get math. Passers can get no math. Failers can get no math.

Hang tight, we'll make it together :)

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 19, 2006

By the way, there's gotta be multiple levels of math, like multiple levels of other questions....I had two math questions that completely totally threw me. Nothing I'd ever seen before. I can't know if I guessed even close, since they were fill-ins and I can't even remember how they went!

No way was that a basic question, lol...

bbgirl · Jul 19, 2006

By the way, there's gotta be multiple levels of math, like multiple levels of other questions....I had two math questions that completely totally threw me. Nothing I'd ever seen before. I can't know if I guessed even close, since they were fill-ins and I can't even remember how they went!
No way was that a basic question, lol...

I agree one of mine was really hard also. Were you questions straight priority or did you feel that you just getting general med-sirg once and a while?

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 19, 2006

I got some of everything. Well, almost everything. Some areas I studied weren't even covered.

Anyway, I seemed to get alot of meds and med-surg, which tells me I wasn't doing so hot there. And the questions were easy, not so easy and "what the hell??"

I got prioritization in all its forms. And then, after one or two of those, it'd shoot me something from med-surg, or a med, or whatever, and then go back to priority. I had to prioritize who I'd call first. Who I'd see first in ED. Which pt I'd see first on floor. Which ordered procedure I'd do first. All of them.

And there was no order to any of it that I could tell.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 19, 2006

I also never got a single "hot spot". Nor an exhibit (those seem rare, anyway). After spending all that time pinpointing exactly where to hear a fetal heart tone no matter how they're positioned, or where to place steth for various heart/lung auscultations on adult!

bbgirl · Jul 19, 2006

I also never got a single "hot spot". Nor an exhibit (those seem rare, anyway). After spending all that time pinpointing exactly where to hear a fetal heart tone no matter how they're positioned, or where to place steth for various heart/lung auscultations on adult!

My test sounds the exact same but just longer a lot longer. I did not get any hot spots either. Have you talked to anyone who got alot of med-surg and has passed. I was always under the assumption that it was all prioritizing and then that was it but who knows with this test...

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 19, 2006

Well, from what I can gather, since the computer hones in on weak areas (where you aren't answering as many correct as it thinks you should, or at a high enough level), it will keep asking you questions in that area until it is satisfied that you've met the requirements for passing. Or that you haven't.

So it doesn't mean much of anything if you got more questions in one area than another; everyone has a weaker area somewhere. It's just how you eventually came out of that mire, either showing statistical competency or not, that matters. The good news is that if it keeps slinging questions, you still have a shot :)

Doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy, though, does it?!

jacq821 · Jul 19, 2006

You guys sound like I did yesterday, except I just didn't write it down. I took my exam yesterday morning and got 75 questions. It was strange because it didn't seem like the questions I was getting weren't extremely difficult, which concerns me quite a bit. Don't get me wrong, there were quite a few that I was completely stumped on, but there were also a bunch that I thought to myself - this test can't be this easy!!! I got a lot of prioritization, who would you see first, who would you call back. Then I got 5/6 specific med questions which I think I pretty much knew or could at least rationalize my answers to. I had NO delegation and NO math. 2 select all that apply, which is good because I HATE those questions!!! I also got a lot of specific questions about diseases asking me what I would report immediately. I'm glad I went over and memorized lab values, because I had at least 5 questions where I needed to know ranges in order to answer the questions!! I'm nervous! In my opinion I either really knew my stuff and sailed through the exam or I failed so badly that they just thought "get this girl out of here!!" Either way, I left there with an uneasy feeling.

I think the thing that made matters worse was that my friend who came up with me got 265 questions, and when we were talking about the exam, her test seemed 10X harder than mine did. She was getting questions about ventilators and all I kept thinking to myself was "oh s**t, i must have bombed it!!" I guess we'll find out tomorrow!! I heard a rumor that you can call Pearson and get your results in 24 hours. Any one else hear that???

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 19, 2006

Pearson is 48 hours. I think those that got it in 24 got it from the state bon?

As far as the test goes, I alternate between thinking "ok, it was just easier than kaplan, you did fine" to "they were giving you monkey questions because you overthought that last question and blew it, and now you need an easier one". And then there were the hard questions. And the questions that probably should have been easy, lol, if I weren't so smack-damn boggled by then!

I had lab values down cold. Needed only to know a normal hematocrit to get one question correct. Nothing else. No values on electrolytes. Nothing on blood. Nothing on almost any disease process I studied, lol....ok, well, enough of those that I must've convinced it early on I was ok, I guess.

Still wondering about those four more questions. Hoping that I wasn't so close to failing that it gave me a few more shots and I blew them, too :crying2:

I've never felt this unsure of any test, EVER. I always do well. And yet, here I am wondering if I overanalyzed to my detriment, or if I underanalyzed and blew it anyway.

Cleaning out the bookcase between posts :uhoh3:

Paleobug · Jul 19, 2006

I got the same "mixed bag" of questions too. My computer stopped at 178 after I knew I got the last two questions right. The NCLEX questions do have an erie resemblence to the Kaplan questions.

RNKay31 · Jul 19, 2006

You guys are going to do great, do not give up FAITH. I had 265 questions, lots of med-surg, where I stumble, lots of meds, 2 select all, 1 med math, lots of priority questions, and wwho do I see first, all the best and god bless, by the way I fail.