What to do now?!?!?!

I am so sorry to hear. Since you had a whole lot of prioritization questions did you get the La Charity book?

No, I didnt since I used pretty much every other resource that everyone said they used in order to pass the exam. IF I decide to take it again, I would hate to focus on Priority and Delegation questions only for everything else to be given to me on the exam. I just hate that I dont know what to study for. Nursing is a whole lot of information and putting it all in context with content, lab values, etc is too much for one brain.

(((hugs)))) you are not an idiot....just study more and you can do it

You gotta pick yourself up, girl. (hug):hug: It sounds like you had a lot of stuff to focus on--could it be possible to over-study or have too many study options? I know of people who did very well in nursing school and failed the NCLEX. I do not think you should compare yourself to anyone else--it doesn't do any one any good. Timing is everything and maybe for reasons bigger than you're aware of, it's just not time for you to have this in your life. Sometimes it's those struggles in life that help us learn more about ourselves and life.

This is what I did. I purchased Kaplan (the live classroom section--the one with a teacher and you go to class for 4 days). I think it is much better than the online portions bc you can interact with a teacher who can give you more tips/strategies/answer questions than pre-recorded sessions. Kaplan has a blue book that I read cover-to-cover before I went into class. This way I was prepared to learn testing strategies and not focused on learning knowledge/information (which should be already under my belt bc of nursing school). Then I went home and did 3 tests of 75 questions per day and reviewed ALL rationales for EVERY question right or wrong. I learned so much content that was not covered in nursing school and solidified knowledge that I already had. Anything that I didn't know I would wright it on a post-it and stick it to the walls in my home--grouping like topics. I did every single Q-bank question and the multiple-answer questions. I did NOT look at anything else. I didn't even review tables/lectures/books from nursing school. It's soooo much information, you'll never have enough time to really learn it all. I focused on getting scores on Q-banks tests between 65-80%. There were a few tests that I didn't make those scores, but I reviewed the rationales. It took a lot of time doing those Q-bank questions and the other tests (no social life or any life other than Kaplan), but it was worth it. When I was done with all the questions, I reviewed those post-its for a few days before the exam. And the day before the exam I only looked at the post-its one time in the afternoon, and tried to relax the rest of the day. You have to go in with confidence and believe in yourself. If you go in this next time feeling defeated, you are only hurting yourself. Be your biggest supporter and fan. You had your time to be upset, now you need to do what it takes to pass this test--and dwelling on failing isn't gonna put your mind/heart in the right place. The last thing that I did right from the beginning was tell myself constantly all day long, every day was "I WILL pass the NCLEX the first time with 75 questions." (but you can say THIS time and believe it when you tell yourself.) I made a Kaplan hand-out if you want it (it goes with the live classroom section). I can email it to you in a pdf file. You'll do great this next time and it will make you a better nurse.

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Sorry to hear that KTeacher2Nursing. But there's always another chance; to make it through and pass the exam. I might not have the best advice for you but if you just think about everything you did and sacrificed at school then you'll be able to have the courage and motivation to take it again. Goodluck.