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Anyone else feel this way; took the NCLEX today, studied comprehensive books, took a review class and did VERY well on ALL tests in school...the NCLEX didnt touch ANY of that! Everything I had concentrated on wasnt on the test. My comp. shut off at about 130 and Im not feeling very confident.....YIKES!!!

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I kinda felt the same way. I concentrated on OB, peds, and psych, butI felt like I just wasted my time after I took the test. Oh, well. Nothing I can do about it, but the imposrtant thing is that I passed. I guess it's better to have something and not need it, than need it and not have it.

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When you finished your exam, how did you feel, confident that you passed or a little nervous that you didnt?

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I felt the exact same way today when I took the NCLEX-PN. I did about 2000 questions before taking this test and I didn't feel it helped a great deal at all! I guess all we can do now is sit and wait!!

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Specializes in NICU, Psych, Education.

Hang in there, guys! Let us know when you find out.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Absolutely!! I felt that I had wasted my time. I did at least 150-300 questions per day to study for NCLEX-PN, took a review course and constantly read their material, and took time off of work (sick time), and there was not a single question about diabetes, heart disease, one question for pediatrics (was grateful for that, because I hated peds), no OB questions, no endocrine ...

At this point, I would tell people to study each day, do about 100 questions a day, but do not kill yourself, because NCLEX is a whole new world. I left there bewildered, angry, and I said to myself that if I failed, I would not waste my time, because I would have no clue where to begin. I'm glad it is over, because I will never walk into that again.

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I am so happy you guys agree with me. Im becoming obbsessive over this!! Even though I know my results wont be posted untill tomorrow, Im checking HOURLY! Im nuts!! If I have to take this again, I jsut dont know what Im going to do..it's going to be mortifying because 1) I was top of my class and I fail?? 2) I have a job lined up that starts in 2 weeks, do I call them and say "Oh sorry I failed I cant come in 2 weeks"?? 3) Im currently HATING my job now, everyone here knows I took the exam yesterday, will I have to tell them? eek...and the surgeons here... 4) Family all proud of me, calling me a nurse already...

Not to mention another 200$....yikes......good luck to you all, keep your fingers crossed!!!

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Took my nclex today....shut off at 75...I have never felt more humiliation before now. I studied all the wrong things. It has been very hard to accept that I might have failed given the fact that I was at the top of my nursing class and a representative of student government...I feel i missed really easy questions and answered the hard ones right. I guess there is no predicting results but I want to stay positive.

good luck all.

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I am so happy you guys agree with me. Im becoming obbsessive over this!! Even though I know my results wont be posted untill tomorrow, Im checking HOURLY! Im nuts!! If I have to take this again, I jsut dont know what Im going to do..it's going to be mortifying because 1) I was top of my class and I fail?? 2) I have a job lined up that starts in 2 weeks, do I call them and say "Oh sorry I failed I cant come in 2 weeks"?? 3) Im currently HATING my job now, everyone here knows I took the exam yesterday, will I have to tell them? eek...and the surgeons here... 4) Family all proud of me, calling me a nurse already...

Not to mention another 200$....yikes......good luck to you all, keep your fingers crossed!!!

I'm gald I'm not the only one checking hourly...lol I won't have results until tomorrow but I'm like you I keep checking every hour thinking that just maybe they will post them early!! I can't seem to think about anything else but my results!!:uhoh3:

Lisa

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ok- i know exactly how you feel- i took my nclex-rn on monday- i had 130-150 questions- i came out of there i started crying because i felt horrible about that test! I got my results this morning-and I passed! I was worried because all of my friends said they had 75 questions and they knew they passed- so i got worried when my test wouldn't shut off- i also took the pn nlcex last year and passed with the minimum- so it really doesn't matter how many questions you get- if you were doing terrible- the test would have shut off at 75- it kept giving you more questions- so thats a good sign-did you have a lot of "priority questions?" But unfortunately-now is the hardest part! waiting!!!but its out of your hands right now- so try to relax, hang out w/friends/family, just know that at this point there is nothing more you can do!!

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Waiting is the hardest part. I took my test two weeks ago and the computer stopped at 75. I left the testing center thinking what in the world did I study so hard for as nothing can prepare you for nclex. The things I really studied were not on the test for the most part. Just know your abc's as i had alot of priority, delegation, who would you see first type questions --Passed. They should let you know right away the wait is awful. Try to relax I know I didn't and wasted 48 hours of my life sweating about nothing. Congratulations ahead of time.. Have faith - let us know

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Just wanted to update everyone I found out this afternoon that I PASSED THE NCLEX:balloons: :balloons: :balloons: !!

I'm so happy that the wait is over!!!

Thanks to everyone for their kind words while I waited it really helped!!

:nurse: Lisa

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