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I haven't posted here in almost 3 yrs but I am gonna post this because I need to see it and so do others. If you check some of my posts you will see that I began a PN program in May 2007 and I completed July 2008. Since then I have taken my school's exit exam 3 times and the last time I took it in 2010 I scored a 865 which passing was 900 (35 points away! ugh) since then I have been fearful of taking the exit again for fear of failing and paying more money to redo courses. I have lived for 3 years with the idea that I will be ok with not passing the exit exam knowing in my heart of hearts that I wasn't. I went on day in day out lying to myself. I'm working at a job that I like but I wanna love where I work and what I do. I've spent the money to do nursing school but afraid to fail and it has made me a little unhappy about my life. I've even been embarrassed to let people know that I went to school at all but of course the people who love me would ask me occassionally "when are you gonna go back and take the test?" I would even get upset with myself and the people who asked because I knew it was something I could do.

With my faith in God, myself, and the love and support of my family and friends 2 weeks ago I called my school to have a meeting with the DON. Before I met with him I said a silent prayer for the Lord to either change his mind about how the test is scored or to change the passing score on the HESI exit exam (which is what the school was giving when I went last in 2010). On yesterday I went to the school and he told me that I can study for an assessment review to see where I am and if I get between 65-67% I can do a comprehensive review and do the exit exam again or do the assessment review and if I score under 65% then I will have to retake MedSurg I and II again, the review, and the exit exam. I made sure to ask him were they still doing HESI exit exam which seems harder than the NCLEX from what I heard and he said "no we don't do HESI anymore we make up our own exit exam now." And who said that there is no God and that prayers aren't answered??? When I heard him say it yesterday and as I type I ask myself "so you really allowed this/you to hold you back?" So I've made an unbreakable promise to myself to study hard, pray hard, and do what it takes to attain the goal that I know has been in my spirit for years now. I can do it, I will do it, I gotta do it! So to all of you out there who have been stagnate about getting back up on the horse, you can do it! We can do it!

I'm afraid of failing but I'm more afraid of not living up to my full potential!

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You can do it! Best of luck to you. ;)

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Hello all I haven't posted here in almost 3 yrs but I am gonna post this because I need to see it and so do others. If you check some of my posts you will see that I began a PN program in May 2007 and I completed July 2008. Since then I have taken my school's exit exam 3 times and the last time I took it in 2010 I scored a 865 which passing was 900 (35 points away! ugh) since then I have been fearful of taking the exit again for fear of failing and paying more money to redo courses. I have lived for 3 years with the idea that I will be ok with not passing the exit exam knowing in my heart of hearts that I wasn't. I went on day in day out lying to myself. I'm working at a job that I like but I wanna love where I work and what I do. I've spent the money to do nursing school but afraid to fail and it has made me a little unhappy about my life. I've even been embarrassed to let people know that I went to school at all but of course the people who love me would ask me occassionally "when are you gonna go back and take the test?" I would even get upset with myself and the people who asked because I knew it was something I could do. With my faith in God, myself, and the love and support of my family and friends 2 weeks ago I called my school to have a meeting with the DON. Before I met with him I said a silent prayer for the Lord to either change his mind about how the test is scored or to change the passing score on the HESI exit exam (which is what the school was giving when I went last in 2010). On yesterday I went to the school and he told me that I can study for an assessment review to see where I am and if I get between 65-67% I can do a comprehensive review and do the exit exam again or do the assessment review and if I score under 65% then I will have to retake MedSurg I and II again, the review, and the exit exam. I made sure to ask him were they still doing HESI exit exam which seems harder than the NCLEX from what I heard and he said "no we don't do HESI anymore we make up our own exit exam now." And who said that there is no God and that prayers aren't answered??? When I heard him say it yesterday and as I type I ask myself "so you really allowed this/you to hold you back?" So I've made an unbreakable promise to myself to study hard, pray hard, and do what it takes to attain the goal that I know has been in my spirit for years now. I can do it, I will do it, I gotta do it! So to all of you out there who have been stagnate about getting back up on the horse, you can do it! We can do it! I'm afraid of failing but I'm more afraid of not living up to my full potential![/quote']

I wish you all the best of luck. By the way in my state Lpn programs legally can not use the exit as a measure of readiness for nclex. If you passed the program and didn't pass the exit they can't hold you from the nclex. I would look it up. I live in nj and this was passed by the BON recently.

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Thanks njlpn421 I'll check that out!

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Thanks njlpn421 I'll check that out!

I found the link for my state. Hope this helps

http://www.nj.gov/lps/ca/nursing/DeanNDirectorLtr.pdf

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