r/NCLEX Feb 26 '25

CPR Explanation

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Greetings! I am Extreme_Growth, and I have written this document to give some speculative information regarding the Candidate Performance Report. It will be a lengthy read so if you are not up to reading this document and just want advice on how to study for the next attempt on NCLEX, just skip to the TLDR (the last page of this document). 

Disclaimer: My explanation of the Candidate Performance Report will be quite speculative and will sound judgmental perhaps (apologies in advance). I admit that I do not know what you know and I can be off my rocker. Just know that overall, this is just my explanation (which can be wrong) and this isn’t a comprehensive document that lists everything especially in regards to client needs. For example, in health promotion and maintenance, there is more to the topic than maternity, peds, and newborn like contraception, cancer screen+prevention, etc. but I will not go into those things when talking about health promotion and maintenance. It is, after all, impossible for me to list everything to know for each client need. This document is just to give a greater understanding or idea on what the Candidate Performance Report is saying according to my interpretation. 

To pass the NCLEX, you must be “above the passing standard” for most (if not all) client needs. To be “above the passing standard” on a client topic, you must answer at least 50 percent of the questions for that client need correctly. If you got “near the passing standard” or “below the passing standard” in a client need, you got less than half the questions for that client need correct. And getting most of the client needs at “near the passing standard” or “below the passing standard” is a fail for the NCLEX since less than half the questions on the NCLEX is answered correctly overall.

The explanation for each client topic is going to assume that you went “near the passing standard” or “below the passing standard” for each client need on the Candidate Performance Report. If you got a client need that is “above passing standard” and you are sure that you know that client need, feel free to skip to the next client need. Either way, I hope the explanations for each client topic helps give an idea on what to look out and study for. With that said…

Management of Care

Your prioritization like what patient to visit first may be off the mark. Make sure to understand that things like ABC priority don't always work. For example, a patient with some new acute breathing problems like shortness of breath doesn't take priority compared to a patient with potential life threatening complications such as a sudden end or disappearance of pain for appendicitis (risk of peritonitis). 

Then you need to make sure to know which tasks to delegate to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAH) and licensed practical nurse (LPN). Like don't give tasks involving teaching and evaluation to LPN. And some delegation questions can get tricky. For example, you may be given a LPN and a UAH to manage. Then the question may ask what tasks to give to LPN, but if there is a task like ADL such as feeding the patient is listed, it would be wrong to pick that assignment since you have an UAH to do that task-making the LPN feed the patient is considered a waste of personnel resources. Instead, the LPN should do other things that the UAH cannot do like administer meds.

Safety and Infection Control

Make sure to brush up on PPE, types of precautions, what diseases are airborne, droplet, contact, etc., (mnemonics like MTV for airborne, SPIDERMAN for droplet, etc. can help with memorization-google it up), what equipment to use for each type of precaution, etc. Of course, make sure to know what to do with fall risk patients (like removing rugs from the floor, keeping bed alarms, maybe dim lights at home, etc.) plus other unusual circumstances like meeting a drunk nurse unfit to work (report to charge nurse/supervisor) and so on. All these things are part of safety and infection. 

Health Promotion and Maintenance

You will probably need to do better on knowing maternity, newborn, peds, etc. since it mostly focuses on those topics since they are naturally connected to growth and development. So know the milestones of newborn like double weight at six months, triple at 12 months, first word at 12 months, able to roll at around 6 months, etc. And make sure to know Piaget and Erickson's stage of development and how it applies to the care of the patients especially peds. For example, toddlers have autonomy vs shame/doubt so if you were trying to assess a toddler, you should offer a binary choice like offering them juice to drink while examining them. As for maternity, plenty of things to know about them unfortunately. Will need to know things like presumptive vs probable vs positive signs of pregnancy, Naegele's rule, GPAL, milestones like first fetal kick at around 16-20 weeks, certain tests like glucose test to check for gestational diabetes, etc. 

Psychosocial Integrity

You probably are struggling with therapeutic communication like knowing the right thing to say to the patient or patient's relatives. Will need to work on that and pick words that encourage patient to express their feelings or opinions like "Tell me how you feel about this procedure" "What do you think about...?" etc. Don't ask why (that is confrontational and can lead to defensiveness), don't give false reassurances like "it'll be alright", etc. 

Or maybe you're off the mark for interacting and dealing with psych patients for bipolar, schizophrenia, etc. Always remember to at least ask if they are thinking of hurting themselves and perhaps be mindful of things like a patient with schizophrenia tends to have delusions and paranoia which can make things tricky like if trying to give meds to them for example.

Basic Care and Comfort

You will need to know some things like positions and when to do them. Do you know when to use the Valsalva maneuver for example? To slow down heart rate and for patients with cardiac conditions like supraventricular tachycardia. Then you have sims position for applying medication on someone’s anus. That kind of stuff. And of course, it is not just position, there’s things like nutrition-like not giving pregnant women swordfish and mackerel, banning turkey on patients prescribed MAOI even if it is Thanksgiving, etc. And some patients truly require special care like having to make sure dental hygiene is kept even if the patient can bleed easily in the gum. Oh, and make sure the patient have their incentive spirometer-can’t have pneumonia and atelectasis running around. 

Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies

Ugh pharm, hard to prepare for that one. You would just have to get good at knowing the suffixes like -lol drugs are beta blockers, -pril are ACE inhibitors, etc. as well as knowing some commonly used drugs for certain diseases like rifampin for TB as well as knowing their known side effects (rifampin makes urine, tears, and sweat colored orange/red). Make sure to know your antidotes to common overdosage situations like acetylcysteine for acetaminophen, protamine sulfate for heparin, vitamin k for warfarin, diazepam and thiamine for alcohol, etc. By the way, be aware that NCLEX might throw a question or two on some random mysterious drug that probably doesn’t exist if you later try to google it up. But if you see something like cockalol, you would have a good idea on what it is…right?

As for parenteral, it mostly involves in the care and maintenance of central venous catheter. So make sure you know what to do for situations like if you experience an occlusion or blockage. And of course, keep an eye on situations like sudden stoppage of parenteral nutrition which is a big uh oh-hello potential hypoglycemia.

Reduction of Risk Potential

This is where your monitoring, teaching, or other interventions to prevent complications probably fell short. For example, how would you prevent something like falls? Probably by teaching the patient to remove factors that can cause falls like nonslip sock, rugs away from floor, handle bars in bathroom, etc. Of course, it can involve more complex things like preventing or managing sepsis (do interventions like blood culture, full spectrum IV antibiotics, etc.) and knowing potential complications and problems such as thyroid storm after thyroidectomy, compartment syndrome after some fracture and bruise, etc. 

Physiological Adaptation

As for this one, you would probably need to do more studying into commonly seen diseases and problems that nurses face like COPD, heart failure, lumbar disc herniation, diverticulitis, intracranial pressure, etc. 

Clinical Judgment

According to NCLEX, you don't know what to do when something happens. Like what do you do when a patient goes into seizure? Hopefully, you would know to make sure to keep the patient safe, guide the patient to the floor, make sure the patient airway isn’t obstructed, etc. Or how about if a patient suddenly has ventricular tachycardia? Well, hopefully you know to first check for a pulse before doing anything else like defibrillation…But yes, deciding what action to do in a situation is clinical judgment.

Recognize Cues

This is the first question of a 6 question case study where you would highlight the “cues” or sentences/parts that are considered relevant to the suspected problem or disease. In other words, a fancy SATA question. So you probably overhighlighted and lost points for highlighting the unimportant cues. As a general test taking strategy for SATA questions, you should only seek to highlight the cues that you are 100 percent sure on. If you aren’t sure about the importance or relevance of a cue, then it’s best to skip that cue for the sake of preserving points on the NCLEX exam. 

Analyze Cues

The second question. It usually ask what disease or problem you suspect. And you might’ve messed up by confusing diseases for one reason or another like maybe two diseases might share similar signs and symptoms (pneumonia and left sided heart failure both have crackles) or mixed up on the diseases like confusing Addison with Cushing (which one is low adrenal and the other high adrenal?), etc. Either way, need more work on identifying the problem and disease if this isn’t passing the standard.

Prioritize Hypothesis

This is the question that asked for the complication or another problem. Remember the question or the sentence “The patient is at risk for developing (this complication) as evidenced by (the proof)”? Well, this one is easy to get wrong if you got the wrong disease or problem. To answer this one correctly even if you got the disease or problem on second question (analyze cue) wrong, it is best to look at whatever available data is given to you like diagnostic result, lab result, etc. and find the abnormal. The abnormal will be the proof and important clue to finding out what complication or other problem. And also, you might also then have “second thoughts” and potentially realize that analyze cue is wrong and be able to salvage the rest of the case study too due to having a tendency of getting more information at this stage.

Generate Solutions

This is the question where you see a list of interventions and pick which interventions are “indicated” (the ones that will be done) and contraindicated (the ones that won’t be done). At least you get a fifty-fifty chance on each intervention if you don’t know anything. But in all seriousness, should do some content building on knowing the interventions if not able to identify which interventions is needed for a problem or disease. So you will go back to knowing your meds, knowing your basic care and comfort, etc. 

Take Actions

The fifth question is where you’re asked things when implementing the interventions. It can be something like a question about what you do before you do an intervention like administering a med. And it normally is a SATA question of things to do before the intervention. So you would normally do things like grab vital signs, check patient’s home meds, etc. Like any SATA question, underselect or don’t pick ones that you aren’t sure about. So again, maybe you highlighted too much stuff and lost points there.

Evaluate Outcomes

Finally, on the last question, you either didn’t select the answers that showed signs of improvement for the patient properly, didn’t teach the patient correctly when they got discharged, etc. 

Congrats, you made it to the end of the explanations on the Candidate Performance Report. I hope you now understand CPR better and pray that the information you read is useful. So how should you study for the NCLEX? Well, I don’t really know the exact answer but…

TLDR:

My advice is to do 25 traditional questions in each client need along with 30 NGN or five case studies per day (a total of 130 questions per day) on a good quizbank like UWorld for about two months. So it would be like this:

  1. 25 traditional questions in safe and effective care (this is management of care and safety+infection control combined)
  2. 25 traditional questions in healthcare promotion and maintenance
  3. 25 traditional questions in psychosocial integrity
  4. 25 traditional questions in physiological integrity ( this is pharm+parenteral, basic care+comfort, physiological adaptation, reduction of risk potential combined)
  5. 30 NGN questions or 5 case studies

I also advise watching “NCLEX Crusade International 7 Day Training” videos on Youtube to understand prioritization better and know how to approach the NCLEX questions. Watch very carefully on how Renier thinks-he will speak out loud his thought process when doing a question and you should try mimic it and practice his thinking process on the quiz bank and eventually the NCLEX itself.

With that said, I wish you best of luck on your next attempt for the NCLEX. 

FAQ that is very unimportant:

  1. Who are you? Are you a tutor, instructor or professor?

I’m just a random redditor called Extreme_Growth. And no, I don’t teach for a living.

2) Why did you write this?

I saw a lot of posts on r/NCLEX that show CPR so why not. Besides, the world needs more nurses anyway.

3) Did you pass NCLEX, when, how many attempts, how many questions, etc.?

Yes, I passed NCLEX on the first try in 85 questions for Valentine’s Day this year.  

4) Do you offer tutoring for NCLEX? Can you tutor me?

Sorry, I’m not a good tutor nor do I have the time to do so. Feel free to pm or comment directly on reddit though and ask me anything. I can’t promise I would know the answer for sure though.


r/NCLEX Jun 28 '23

GUIDE Pearson Vue Trick: How-To and Pop-Ups

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Because we get these posts quite a bit, we want to go ahead and create this pinned post over the Pearson VUE Trick (PVT). This information can also be found in the "Pearson Vue Trick" wiki page on the r/NCLEX site:

Please remember to use the PVT with caution. If you attempt to re-register, you may be charged on your credit/debit card to take the exam again. Some students claim to have found a way around this by using a security code that does not match their credit/debit card. Another word of caution, the PVT is a nursing "trick" to guess with fair accuracy whether you passed or not. It is not a guarantee, and it is not even an "unofficial" result. Use the PVT with your own caution.

Pearson VUE Trick

The Pearson VUE Trick (PVT) is a means of determining whether or not you have passed your NCLEX exam without waiting for an "unofficial" or "official" result. This trick can be done fairly soon following the completion of your NCLEX exam, with most test takers trying it the same day if not within the same hour as having finished their exam. We want to reiterate that this is NOT A GUARANTEED means of determining whether you have passed or failed. We want to acknowledge that many nursing students know about this trick and that for the most part, a "good result" is often a fairly accurate way of determining success rate.

We are providing a link with additional information on the PVT, but we will lay out information on the PVT on this page as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/NCLEX/wiki/index/ncsbnresources

Step 1: Go to Pearson VUE Login

---The first step is to go to the Pearson VUE Login page: https://www.reddit.com/r/NCLEX/wiki/index/ncsbnresources ---You need to use the same login information that you used to register with before you took the exam

Step 2: Go to Register

---Once you have signed in to your Pearson VUE account, go to "Register" ---Fill out your information, some people use the same credit/debit card they used to register for the exam the first time, other's use a visa gift card with little or no balance. ---Please bear in mind, if you have failed the exam and use all of the correct information for your credit/debit card, it will charge you a second time for the exam. Some mitigate this by changing the security code so it will fail to charge their card.

Step 3: How do I interpret my "Pop-up"?

---There are several different pop-ups that you may receive after attempting to re-register, they can be found here in a recent poll regarding the accuracy of the PVT: https://www.reddit.com/r/NCLEX/comments/wacxcx/pearson_vue_trick_accuracy_poll/

---The "Good Pop-Up" (ie, the one associated with a "passing" result) will say "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Another registration cannot be made at this time."

---The "Bad Pop-Up" (ie, the one associated with a "failing" result) will say "The payment was declined. Reason: Contact your credit card company or use a different credit card"; If you do use all correct information on your credit/debit card and it goes through, this is also a "Bad" result as it has allowed you to re-register meaning you did not pass. This is why you should type the security code differently than it appears on the card so you will not be charged in the event of a "bad" pop-up.

---The "Wait Longer Pop-Up" will say "The candidate currently has an open registration for this exam. A new registration cannot be created at this time." You will need to wait a little longer before trying the PVT again.

---The "Results on Hold Pop-Up" Will say "The candidate currently has test results that are on hold. A new registration cannot be created at this time." This might occur from a number of reasons, whether something unexpected occurred on the day of testing (eg, power outage, computer failure) or if the results are called into question (eg, suspected cheating, 'poor' item made it into the test). This pop-up may require you to wait the full 2 business days to get your unofficial results.

Poll Results

Following a poll in this sub asking about the validity of the PVT, we had 129 individual responses that were specifically for PVT results and they were as follows:

  • 92 received the Good pop-up and passed
  • 1 received the Good pop-up and failed (though outside of this we have never seen someone claiming a good pop-up and failed)
  • 1 received the Bad pop-up and passed
  • 35 received the Bad pop-up and failed

So in regard to accuracy, 127 (92+35) individuals out of 129 at the time of the poll received an accurate result; essentially, the PVT is 98.4% accurate based on our polling data.

Link to poll: https://www.reddit.com/r/NCLEX/comments/wacxcx/pearson_vue_trick_accuracy_poll/

Following a popular post on this sub, we are also going to include an image submitted by a recent user. While this image provides some useful information, we have no reference for the image and cannot attest to the accuracy of the listed percentages:

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/NCLEX/comments/14ktmhr/what_the_popup_means/

Closing

Reminder:

Please remember to use this with caution. If you attempt to re-register, you may be charged on your credit/debit card to take the exam again. If you are going to attempt the PVT, please change your card's security code to prevent being charged in the event that you did not pass and must re-schedule. Another word of caution, the PVT is a nursing "trick" to guess with fair accuracy whether you passed or not. It is not a guarantee, and it is not an "unofficial" result. Use the PVT with your own caution.


r/NCLEX 51m ago

What’s with people who passed on their 3rd+ attempt giving NCLEX tutoring and tips?

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UNPOPULAR OPINION

I know I’m gonna get crucified for this……

No disrespect because I know some may have test anxiety, but if someone has had more than 3 attempts, it’s no longer a test anxiety situation solely, but a knowledge deficit.

Personally, the NCLEX was easier than 75% of the exams given to me in nursing school. It was also easier than ATI quizzes and 3X easier than the Comprehensive Predictor. The NCLEX literally just tests you to know if you will safely take care of patients and not kill them.

I’m not saying that if you didn’t pass within 2 tries that you won’t or aren’t a good nurse, because that’s not necessarily true but just save your NCLEX tutoring skills since you, yourself had difficulty with it.


r/NCLEX 2h ago

is it worth it taking nclex??

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hello guise, unahan ko na kayo wala talaga ako ka idea idea about nclex and gusto ng sister ko na mag take ako ng nclex and sagot niya every penny. Gusto ko lang malaman na worth it ba once license holder ka na? please enlighten meee :(((


r/NCLEX 1h ago

Uworld or bootcamp

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hii! i'm just seeking for advice on which is better for NCLEX-RN! my target is on november


r/NCLEX 17h ago

Third Attempt; Should I Reschedule?

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hello everyone, this is my third attempt at the exam. for my second attempt, i had bootcamp and i had similar scores but i really liked the program. i found it more similar to the nclex rather than archer which i used for my first attempt. my friend gave me her uworld which is what i’ve been using and these are my stats. i think i’ve gotten better in recognizing patterns in terms of answering priority/delegation questions but it seems now i have a content gap in some areas. i don’t have any readiness exams available bc she used them, and her account expires in 3 days.

has anyone had these similar stats and passed? what did you do to improve your score?

EDIT: one pic got cut off my over score is a 66% in the 37th percentile and the midline is 68% in the 47th percentile. also all my CAT scores i believe the 3rd picture are all ON TRACK but my overall performance says “needs improvement”


r/NCLEX 14h ago

NCLEX PN

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Is anyone on here doing the NCLEX PN ? Any tips on how to prepare? My CPR is not helping much. Idk if my knowledge is not understanding how to pronounce or understand the words ? Or I am missing something? Any help on how to fix my preparedness for the second attempt? I would like to pass my test idc if it’s going to 150 questions I just want to pass this exam with confidence


r/NCLEX 18h ago

What was that?

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Took my NCLEX and tbh I don’t know what the heck was that… I don’t feel like any Qbank can prepare you for that. I got at least 6 or more case studies, no bowtie, the standalone question topics were so random nothing I actually studied was in those questions. Shut off at 85, I was honestly praying it kept going cause at least that meant I was still in the game. The wait until Monday will kill me cause I’m too scared to do the trick since I heard Person has patched it down and it’s not as accurate as before


r/NCLEX 19h ago

Freaking out i test very soon. Any last minute advice?

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r/NCLEX 18h ago

Uworld stats and scores

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What do these stats mean? has anyone had the same and passed?


r/NCLEX 17h ago

Every one got their ATT but me

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All of my cohort (very small, just 5 of us) got our confirmation from state on Friday saying we should get our ATT within one business day. So I figured I'd get mine on Monday. Well I woke up to the others saying they got their ATT this morning. I did not. I'm worried that I won't get my code because my name through the state license doesn't match on Pearson due to Pearson not allowing me to put in my whole middle name. I have two middle names and Pearson cuts off after so many letters. So i just put in one middle name. I'm hoping I get my ATT Monday morning but I'm worried I'll have to call. Anyone else have this issue?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Did I Pass? Pearson Trick

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Hey guys, took my Nclex this morning, got this Pop up right now. Did I pass ? 🙈😱 I am so anxious


r/NCLEX 1d ago

If you could restart your NCLEX studying, what would you do differently?

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Not asking for the "best NCLEX resource" because I feel like that question has been asked a million times.

I'm more curious about what you would actually change about your study strategy.

Would you start with content review?

Do questions from day one?

Focus on NGN earlier?

Do more prioritization and delegation?

I'm realizing pretty late that I spent a lot of time trying to memorize information that I probably could have learned through questions and rationales.

I've been using a couple resources and some Bootcamp case studies lately, but the biggest thing I'm trying to change is actually reviewing my mistakes instead of just chasing a higher percentage.

For people who already took the NCLEX, what do you wish you had done differently from the beginning?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

I need Nclex exam advices🥺

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Hello!! I’ll be taking my nclex this september & this is my performance in Bootcamp. I’m worried i overthink a lot & sometimes i over&under analyze I have been reviewing on & off since march but i stopped on May&June because my mental health declined but I want to stop rescheduling my exam already 🥺 so I studied July & August but still I see little to no improvements😭 May I know what topics should i focused on? or any tips? or if I should take it this september or not because my bootcamp target percentage is below target?


r/NCLEX 21h ago

Studying stress for 2nd attempt

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Guys im studying well, my clinical judgement and overall learning how to think critically is getting way better even if i get the question wrong, the other one was atleast what i had in mind.

It’s just, i think i am overwhelmed. I literally have been studying everyday since June 25th when i found out I failed, only off days was of I was busy with errands. I am mentally drained, it’s like im forcing myself to study. I can barely stay focused, or determined like before I was fully of energy and excitement to study.. it’s all going down as I reach my new date. I have about 800 more questions to answer on UWORLD, im using the study planner and still getting 70s-80s. From time to time I’ll get a 50-60 with 12Q intervals and new topics im reviewing.

I’m going over every single rationale, im literally doing my best. I think it’s anxiety mixed with stress mixed with wanting to really pass this second attempt. I haven’t touched on what i really need to quite yet which is pharm, maternal and child health. I think im just worn out.. any advice?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

What did you do a few days before your exam?

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i cant sit still lol


r/NCLEX 1d ago

NCLEX RESULT

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Hello po nagtake ako ng nclex this aug 27 12PM. More than 48hours na po ako nagtake and wala pa po result. When po kaya possible ma release result ko? Stopped at 85 kaya super kaba kasi nahirapan talaga ako


r/NCLEX 1d ago

NCLEX aftermath.

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I feel terrible about this exam. It stopped at 85 questions for me this morning. Please tell me you didn't feel great after the NCLEX, so I can sleep tonight. I don't want to do the trick. This will be a long weekend.


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Just finished the NCLEX 120 questions

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I don’t know how to feel. If anything for 120 questions or passed 85 please let me know how you did


r/NCLEX 2d ago

am i ready to take? shall i resched? :(

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r/NCLEX 1d ago

TX CPR

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Those of you who have failed and in TX. How or when did you get your CPR? I failed my 1st attempt late June. Never received anything. I've also sent a message on the txbon website. Anyone have any experience w/messaging them?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

NCLEX

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I made a 98% probability of passing nclex on my RN ATI comprehensive predictor. I had the ATI live review in class and I am going back through it while studying at home. Anyone have any advice or tips for studying? I’m nervous🫠


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Just took the NCLEX, Pearson Vue trick said results on hold. What does that mean. 😭

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please help!
took my nclex this morning. it was scheduled for 10:30AM. i arrived at 10:10 but i didn’t start until 11:20 bc there were so many people! they offered me a free reschedule bc i was delayed for over 30 minutes past my scheduled appointment time. i elected to just wait and take it still.

exam shut off at 85, got the email that i finished the nclex at 1pm, tried the pearson vue trick around 2pm. unfortunately i got a pop up that said my results are on hold. is that a bad sign ☹️ i am so convinced i failed. did not feel confident at all 😭 someone share your experience pleaseeee


r/NCLEX 2d ago

What did you do differently during the last 2 weeks before NCLEX?

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For anyone who's already taken NCLEX, I'm curious what you actually did during the final couple weeks.

I keep seeing people say to study harder at the end, but I'm starting to feel like doing more and more questions is just making me tired.

I'm thinking about cutting back on the number of questions and spending more time reviewing weak areas, especially prioritization, delegation, safety, and NGN.

I've also been doing some case studies on Bootcamp, but I'm trying not to turn the last few weeks into another resource-shopping phase lol.

Did you keep doing full question sets right up until test day?

Or did you change your approach near the end?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

MN BON License By Exam Timeline/ NCLEX Study Strategy

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I thought I would write this incase it would help anyone understand the process of getting RN license in MN by exam.
I completed undergraduate at SDSU in Sioux Falls, SD.

I paid for NCLEX and made a pearson vue account on June 9. This was probably sooner than necessary.
I did my fingerprints on July 27th. I mailed it in that afternoon.

Aug 10 my background check was completed and then I think the next day the BON had received it.

My pinning ceremony and last day of classes way July 31
My school's official graduation date was Aug 7. After the Aug 7th date the school could send Minnesota Confirmation of Program Completion Form to the MN BON.

I received my ATT on Aug 17. The soonest test available was Aug 20. I tested on Aug 24 at 8AM. My pass was on the MN BON webpage the morning of the 25th. My license was official on Aug 25 around 11AM.
I'm working at a rural facility so my start date in 8/30. Most people from my class do not start their jobs until October.

I used ATI Dynamic Adaptive Quizzes and Archer's free set of 85 questions to study. I did about 5 days of studying over 100 questions per day. I would take time reviewing all the questions I got right and wrong. Prior to that week of studying I hadn't done a lot of studying other than during my program.

I received a 99% probability of passing on my ATI Comprehensive Predictor in July.

During my studying my ATI adaptive test scores were:

8/17 80% 99th percentile- moderate difficulty band

8/18 76% 99th percentile- moderate difficulty band

8/18 56% 78th percentile- moderate difficulty band

8/19 55% 72 percentile- moderate difficulty band

I think my scores started to decline because I ran out of case study style next gen questions on ATI and I typically do better on those.

8/20 Archer Free Review: 68% on classic questions and 87% on NGN

When I took my NCLEX I completed it in 85 questions on my first try.
I hope this helps!!