I just wanted to share the wonderful news that I passed the NCLEX-RN and am now an official RN!! :) I checked CA BON website at 0630 this morning and was so happy to see my name! I took my exam Tues. the 15th, license issue date is the 17th, and found out in 3 days! I'm glad I was able to relax and not stress over the exam for those 3 days.
My computer shut off at 75 questions. At first, I was afraid that I didn't pass b/c of that feeling that you get when you finish taking the exam. I had that same feeling everyone else had- that I was only sure of like 10 of the answers. Afterwards, I was pretty confident that I passed because I shut off at 75 and thought to myself that the computer would have given me more questions if they weren't 95% certain I was at the passing standard. I knew with the way I was answering the questions, I couldn't have bombed it to where it would have shut off at that point, but instead, give me more questions.
I did some of the practice tests from Saunders and reviewed the beginning chapters. I borrowed a Kaplan course book and QT CD- didn't even open the book. This was taking me so long! Then I decided to use my old ATI videos from school for content review and just took some notes. I only watched most of the med surg video b/c I forgot a lot stuff. I did about 200 questions on Saunder's CD, the 180 question exam on the Kaplan strategy cd (got 68%), did my 180 comprehensive ATI exam from school again, and QT 1-7 (received 67% on QT7) and read all the rationales and wrote notes. I didn't study meds except for the classification and name ending. There's just two much material and I felt doing nclex meds questions was enough. Kaplan questions are very similar to NCLEX in that it gives you a lot of practice w/ prioritization, delegation, infection control questions but I still think it was very different. None of the questions that I studied were like NCLEX but I think the point is that the practice you get from answering them and the information you learn from rationales really help you to critically think and understand what they're asking you on the nclex and help you use reasoning/critical thinking to come up w/ the response. Sorry so long. Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone awaiting results and future NCLEX takers!!:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:
