Waiting on NCLEX results

tonyaf4 · Jun 5, 2007

:banghead:

Well it will be hard waiting like everyone has to do,but I just hope that I passed,so I don't have to take any more tests!!

It stopped at 75 so I guess I did really bad or really good.... :idea:

I only had one math question , then a few pharmacology, and alot of priority questions and a few d/c instructions to your patient.

Good luck to everyone else waiting for results....

ss07 · Jun 5, 2007

Well it will be hard waiting like everyone has to do,but I just hope that I passed,so I don't have to take any more tests!!
It stopped at 75 so I guess I did really bad or really good....
I only had one math question , then a few pharmacology, and alot of priority questions and a few d/c instructions to your patient.
Good luck to everyone else waiting for results....

I hear you. I'm waiting too. Took mine on 5/31. Have no idea how I did. Got the same kind of questions as you. It's so hard waiting, especially when you know that other states can get their results in 48 hours. California is brutal.

CAM281 · Jun 6, 2007

I just got home from taking the exam, after a long lunch and a frozen margarita (make that 2). I got to 75 questions and the exam ended. Yes, I have read all about how you can't tell you failed/passed depending on the number of questions, but my concern is the following.

For two years I have been bombarded with faculty, staff nurses, every RN within 50 miles telling me how absolutely horrible the test was. I listened to the stories of how complex the stem of the question was and how it would be difficulty to sort out the important info. The Kaplan course scared the daylights out of me telling us that the exam was going to be the most difficult test every. I am beginning to think this is some kind of "rite of passage" for graduate nurses to go through; something akin to a fraternity/sorority initiation - where the build-up is nothing like the reality of the event.

I'm not saying the test was easy, there were a lot of questions that I flipped a coin but used the best problem-solving skills that I had. The stems of the questions that I got were fairly short, concise and to the point.

My mix of questions was pretty much like several of the posters listed above.

All of my classmates were told how the exam would start with a moderately difficult question and if you got that right, then it would increase the level of difficulty until you missed and then ask you an easier one until you got a satisifactory score in that area. either I did very, very poorly, or else the stories are just that, stories, since I didn't notice an increasing/decreasing difficulty level.

I'm not trying to jinx myself, and I'm surely not going to say that it was easy thereby putting me into the failing category. I'm saying my 2nd med-surg test during my senior year was way more difficult. And the Kaplan pre-course diagnostic test was way more difficult. Also the NCSBN study course questions were more difficult but closer to what was on today's exam.

Perhaps this goes back to most nursing students have never had to take a national credentialling exam before. I had the dubious pleasure of taking the advanced practitioner written exam and simulation exams to become a registered respiratory therapist 20 years ago. And yes the exam was diffuclt and I did not know how I scored for 6 weeks. So I had a taste of testing "unknown" and maybe that decreased the anxiety that I read in many of these posts.

What I am thinking is that the nursing program, Kaplan, NCSBN course intentionally "overteaches" so that we the candidates will be able to pass. Our school of nursing has a 98% pass rate - maybe I see the logic of the faculty now.

So I have now become one of the "waiters" that I have read about so much on this forum. 48 hours from now I will know.

Thanks for letting me vent.

groettger · Jun 6, 2007

I agree with you CAM, I also tested today. It certainly wasn't easy, however from the posts on here, instructors, and others they make it into something worse than it is. I did have one instructor say, it's just another test that you have taken a million times. We did ATI throughout our schooling and before I went in I kept telling myself, just another ATI test. I psyched myself out and went with my gut feeling alot on the questions. Most of them could be eliminated to the infamous two. I also knew I missed several, it shut off at 75. I think Kaplan, NCBSN etc....are banking BIG TIME on our fears. Critical thinking helps, but memorizing every topic from school is overload and will probably drive you to the psych meds your studying right now. Pass or fail, at least I know it's just another difficult test however it's doable folks. I had lots of patient teaching, one calc, 3 or 4 select alls, more psych than I thought and about 8 pharm (Yuk). Good luck to all the future testers (including my results day).

ChocoholicRN · Jun 6, 2007

All this talk about how incredibly hard the NCLEX was is really starting to freak me out. I still have 2 months till I graduate, and then I plan on taking the test within 1 month of graduating. Unfortunately I can't take any review course (Kaplan, etc) because my school ends at an odd time of the year. My plan was to review thousands of questions online, read through the review books i bought, and go through the ATI books and CDs I got from school. Anyone have any other suggestions as to how to review? Our teacher is also teaching us how to break apart the question, understand the stem, and select between 2 "right" answers. Good luck to everyone whose waiting on results, and congratulations to those of you who passed!!

GSCfox · Jun 7, 2007

I hear you. I'm waiting too. Took mine on 5/31. Have no idea how I did. Got the same kind of questions as you. It's so hard waiting, especially when you know that other states can get their results in 48 hours. California is brutal.

*** BRUTAL? you can say that again.

princess_g63 · Jun 7, 2007

im graduating this week and planning on taking the NCLEX as soon as I get okayed to, whats is the quick result thing, I know u can pay and find out early but is this something u have to do before hand...any amount of money is worth NOT having to wait so long!! LOL

tonyaf4 · Jun 7, 2007

I am glad I dont live in California, It will be 48 hours at 9 this morning and I can hardly take it anymore.. I HOPE I find out today sooo I can get some sleep...

I am at the point where I am second guessing all the questions I thought I got right...

I think since I havnt had any sleep DELIURIM is starting to settle in...lol

:roll

tonyaf4 · Jun 7, 2007

In reply to princess......

number you can call to find out.. In Indiana it cost $9.95 You can call after 2 days to see if the results are in yet.. 1-900-776-2539. You have to have a home phone line to do it

Or you can check online for $7.95 you can sign up anytime .. www.pearsonvue.com

Hope this helps..

dbode · Jun 11, 2007

Very bad Ca didnt join the quick results... I'm being tortured until the result arrives. Anybody knows how long I'll have to suffer? it's been 14 days of agony!!!

I found out within 48 hours you can check on line. Or you'll recieve something in the mail either you didn't pass or your license,

tonyaf4 · Jun 11, 2007

:balloons: I PASSED........ I am finally done...........Good luck to the rest of you waiting.......

huami4264 · Jun 11, 2007

ok..so how worried should I be if i cut off at 75 but have no real clue of how well I did?!!! Just finished the test a couple of hours ago...now anxiety is setting in!