New info on the NCLEX

I was talking to a girl at work that is a Nursing student. She said one of her instructors just became one of the NCLEX exam writers. This instructor told the students something interesting that she had found out about the NCLEX. Because the test is computer adapted to each test taker that there are a lot of factors that determine how difficult or easy your next question might be. She said one of those factors is the amount of time you take to answer the question. The longer you take to answer the question, the computer figures you don't know the answer and are just guessing, even if you eventually answer correctly. I guess the take home message is. . .don't spend too much time reading and re-reading the questions, just use your test strategy to choose the most correct answer and move on. Just thought you all might want to know that. By the way, I passed my NCLEX a couple of weeks ago! It was the best Christmas present I could have received! Good luck everyone, I'm wishing the best for all of you.

LUCKY ME!!!!

WELL I WAS NOT AS FORTUNATE AS MOST OF YOU WERE. I HAD ALL 265 Q'S ON MY TEST AND SOME HOW AND SOME WAY I CAME OUT ON TOP AND PASSED. IT WAS A CHALLANGE TO SAY THE LEAST, 5HRS AND 265 Q'S LATER I WAS DEPRESSED,I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO WAY I PASSED THE TEST. SO IF ANY OF YOU HAVE TO ANSWER ALL 265'S THERE IS STILL HOPE AND IF YOU ARE STILL GETTING Q'S YOUR ARE STILL IN THE GAME AND STICK TO IT AND YOU WILL PASS. IM GLAD THAT SO MANY OF YOU HAVE PASSED AND I CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU THUS FAR AND TO THOSE OF YOU STILL STUDYING WORK HARD AND GOOD LUCK YOU WILL PASS, TAKE ME AS AN EXAMPLE, IF I CAN PASS EVERYONE CAN PASS.

..Oh, I'm Thankful..

Well everyone..I am extremely thankful today for I too, passed the NCLEX. I had 75 questions and about 7 "select all that apply." I thought it was not too bad because I must have been preparing for a lot worse. I'm happy to see that many of you have also passed. Good luck to those who still are scheduled to take it. My advice, just do TONS of practice questions. What a wonderful Thanksgiving gift for me. Thanks for all the support everyone!

Nclex

Hey guys, I took my nclex on Tuesday. I had seventy five questions and luckily I passed. Yeah! no more studying. Good luck everyone.

RN's Needed in St. George!!!

Hey just thought I'd share that if anyone is thinking of moving, or knows someone who lives or maybe moving to St. George, that my company needs people to staff a new dialysis center down there. I think nurses and techs. Just thought I'd pass the info along in case anyone was getting out of SLC or wanted to.

Miracle of miracles.

Good news, my fellow graduates...miracles do happen. I passed the NCLEX! I was completely devastated and felt that I had failed for sure so don't worry too much if you feel the same way. It will be a relief to be able to sleep tonight. Best of luck!

..practice scores??..

Hello again. It's Ashley Owens. I just wanted to get a feel for how everyone is doing on practice tests. I've been using Sauders Q and A, the book Ameritech gave us, and Kaplan. I'm getting 75-80% on Saunders comprehensive tests. 70%-ish on Kaplan, and on the Delmar book that Ameritech gave us I'm getting about an average of 75-80%. What are your thoughts on this?? Good enough to take it??

FYI

FYI if you have a yahoo email and didn't receive an Auth to Test, check your bulk or spam box, or call Pearson Vue. They told me that some yahoo addresses were not allowing their emails to come through. Also Ogden has a little more availability than Draper, if you don't mind the drive. I scheduled for Nov 15th. Good Luck!

SAY IT AINT SO

HELLO EVERYONE: IT IS TRUE I CAN FINALLY TAKE THE NCLEX NOW. I GOT MY ATT YESTERDAY SO CHECK YOUR EMAIL. I WOULD SIGN UP QUICK, THERE ARE NOT MANY SLOTS LEFT FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER THE EARLIEST I COULD SIGN UP WAS THE 21ST OF NOV. I JUST WANT TO WISH EVERYONE THE BEST OF LUCK ON YOUR TESTS, STUDY HARD AND STAY POSITIVE AND YOU WILL ALL PASS. I HOPE ALL IS WELL AND ONCE AGAIN GOOD LUCK. p.s. Paula, Mary and Heather I can feel your tension and stress so take some deep breaths and think ABC's. just kidding

Study Group

Hello everyone! Heather and I are getting together a study group this Saturday 5-9 at the American Fork Library (64 S. 100 East). We would love to have everyone come that is interested. Since we have all been doing our own personal studying for the NCLEX, this will be a nice change of pace. Hope to see you there. Mary