Took NCLEX yesterday, shut off at 75, feel like I failed

[penguins12490]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure this has been posted here before but I took the NCLEX yesterday and have been feeling absolutely awful about it. I had been preparing for about 2 months with ATI and UWorld, finished both question banks. Both UWorld assessments said I had a "very high" chance of passing and ATI predictor had 99% chance of passing. However, once it came time to test, I felt like it was asking me stuff that I knew nothing about, or it was worded in a way that was super confusing. I can barely remember any of the questions but I know I had about 20-30 SATA. It also doesn't help that I feel like I got some of the "easier" questions wrong (one I definitely did since I looked it up afterwards). At this point, I am too nervous to try the Pearson VUE trick.

I just came to see if there's any hope that I passed or what others did to take your mind off of it waiting for 48 hours (likely longer here because I took it on a Thursday). I feel like I have lost hope and I'm not even sure I could go through with taking it again if I did fail.

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

2 hours ago, penguins12490 said:

Both UWorld assessments said I had a "very high" chance of passing and ATI predictor had 99% chance of passing

Having the test stop at 75 questions means ONLY two things: Either you did very well and passed or so poorly that the computer decided that no matter how many questions it gave you, you would fail. The fact that UWorld predicted that you had a 99% probability of passing tells you that it is very unlikely that you failed at 75 questions.

How well did you do in nursing school? It is extremely unlikely that an A/B student would fail NCLEX at 75 questions.