Hello, I promised myself I would post on here if I passed, because this website helped me a lot the last couple of months.
A little background first. The first time I took this test, I didn't study. I accidentally signed up for the exam the night before I took it and since it was less then 24 hours until the exam I couldn't change the date. So I was forced to take the exam or lose my $200. Needless to say I failed miserably at 75 questions. This time I took the exam I took two months to study, used Kaplan religiously, wrote things down in a notebook, used the internet to look up information, used Saunders 3rd ed. and basically lived and breathed the NCLEX for two months. The day before the exam I paid for a massage/hot tub/steam room time at a spa. I did everything that people suggested to me and just worked really hard.
I took the exam in CA the Monday before Thanksgiving- the 24th. I felt really good about the exam- like the test wasn't super hard or anything. But I realized that that is a bad sign and the next few days following that, questions from the test would pop into my head and I'd look up the answers and they would be wrong. On the exam I got 75 questions and about 7-8 meds, 6 SATA, lots of prioritizing and not much delegation. I don't remember any maternity, psych or peds questions. To me, I thought I got a lot of easy questions - or knowledge based ones, which made me very nervous. This past week was HELL. As the days kept going by my didn't appear on the BRN website. Then this morning 8 days later I saw my name on the website!!!!!!! I PASSED!!!! I am in shock with disbelief.
Thanks to everyone for their help and support- it really helped me. Good luck to everyone else who is taking this exam- YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Hello, I promised myself I would post on here if I passed, because this website helped me a lot the last couple of months.
A little background first. The first time I took this test, I didn't study. I accidentally signed up for the exam the night before I took it and since it was less then 24 hours until the exam I couldn't change the date. So I was forced to take the exam or lose my $200. Needless to say I failed miserably at 75 questions. This time I took the exam I took two months to study, used Kaplan religiously, wrote things down in a notebook, used the internet to look up information, used Saunders 3rd ed. and basically lived and breathed the NCLEX for two months. The day before the exam I paid for a massage/hot tub/steam room time at a spa. I did everything that people suggested to me and just worked really hard.
I took the exam in CA the Monday before Thanksgiving- the 24th. I felt really good about the exam- like the test wasn't super hard or anything. But I realized that that is a bad sign and the next few days following that, questions from the test would pop into my head and I'd look up the answers and they would be wrong. On the exam I got 75 questions and about 7-8 meds, 6 SATA, lots of prioritizing and not much delegation. I don't remember any maternity, psych or peds questions. To me, I thought I got a lot of easy questions - or knowledge based ones, which made me very nervous. This past week was HELL. As the days kept going by my didn't appear on the BRN website. Then this morning 8 days later I saw my name on the website!!!!!!! I PASSED!!!! I am in shock with disbelief.
Thanks to everyone for their help and support- it really helped me. Good luck to everyone else who is taking this exam- YOU CAN DO IT!!!
CONGRATS NURSE!!!:yeah: You are so lucky you already found out your results.. of course you took the RN exam so it's faster for you... I took my test last week too nov 25th for my PN Exam... and stopped at 86... don't get to find out for another 3 more weeks through snail mail!! yikes! wish me luck!
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CONGRATS NURSE!!!
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You are so lucky you already found out your results.. of course you took the RN exam so it's faster for you... I took my test last week too nov 25th for my PN Exam... and stopped at 86... don't get to find out for another 3 more weeks through snail mail!! yikes! wish me luck!