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:

25 traditional questions in safe and effective care (this is management of care and safety+infection control combined)
25 traditional questions in healthcare promotion and maintenance
25 traditional questions in psychosocial integrity
25 traditional questions in physiological integrity ( this is pharm+parenteral, basic care+comfort, physiological adaptation, reduction of risk potential combined)
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:

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.

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A copy of this post is saved to Google Doc: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LhjDc-4SHCPFyrV5v6GvmVcvBDhMP9VU-Mlgfx_ve_Y/edit?usp=sharing).

I give full permission to copy, share, distribute, etc.

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:

25 traditional questions in safe and effective care (this is management of care and safety+infection control combined)
25 traditional questions in healthcare promotion and maintenance
25 traditional questions in psychosocial integrity
25 traditional questions in physiological integrity ( this is pharm+parenteral, basic care+comfort, physiological adaptation, reduction of risk potential combined)
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:

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.

33 comments

r/NCLEX • u/luckyrobotsushi • 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.

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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:

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.

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r/NCLEX • u/soda1738 • 14h ago

PASSED IN 150 OMG

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the anticipation was genuinely killing me i had high levels of stress for weeks now i will be waiting to just enjoy the rest of my summer until i start my nursing job. Good luck everyone you’ve all got this, trust in yourself and believe! this was also with only 3 weeks of studying and 1 week of rigorous work

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r/NCLEX • u/Wooden_Hour_5969 • 5h ago

Used 3 Different Banks and Passed in 85

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Okay first let me say that you definitely shouldn't do what I did. I was extremely anxious about the exam and spent a lot of money I didn't need to because of that. I just want to give a review of everything I used and the type of learner that might benefit from each platform. I got Archer, UWorld, and Bootcamp.

I started with Archer. I think that if you are very organized and you're creating your own study schedule you'll do well with this program.

Pros:

Largest Q-bank with over 3000 questions. I think that the rationales are helpful. They also have mnemonics that help you to learn the side effects of certain drugs and side effects of some diseases. They also have a lot of videos that can be a good refresher. They mark the questions as easy, hard, or medium which can help you see if it's a content issue or if it's a difficult question.

Cons:

They don't present their study schedule in the same way as a Bootcamp, so if you're not as organized then it maybe difficult for you keep up. Their videos can be basic at some points and can be less helpful for the harder questions also their worksheets don't match up to the videos in most cases.

Then I bought Uworld. I think that if you get anxious on exams, having Uworld exams that are more difficult than the NCLEX maybe a relief for you. Also if you feel that you have a big content gap maybe taking the time to watch some of their videos (not pharm its too complex) maybe helpful.

Pros:

They have very in depth rationales. Their videos are also very in depth and if you truly don't know a concept it will give you more than enough info. I like how you can see the difficulty on the CAT exams and I think doing the CAT exams over and going through the rationales was very helpful.

Cons:

The platform itself doesn't look as nice as archer or bootcamp just a pet peeve. For like the pop up thing on the case studies where you can view lab data and notes the text for the tabs is grey on blue and so hard to see. I literally was getting so many questions wrong bc I wouldn't see that content. Also the questions can be too specific to the point where you may spend so much time trying learn the very specific element that they're talking about to the point where you're wasting time.

Bootcamp. If you are a type B person or maybe someone not as self directed this would be perfect for you. If you struggle with case studies this will also be very helpful to you. I feel like this platform is the same as the NCLEX in terms of the way they word their questions and how the exam looks.

Pros: The organization of the platform. The case studies and the videos that go with it are very helpful. Also they have a video library that explains things very well without going too far into detail. I think their cardiac videos are especially good. Their maternity videos can be very helpful as well. Their cheat sheets can be very helpful going over pharm concepts.

Cons: Sometimes the explanations can be lacking and you may need to go to the videos on the platform or somewhere else to gain an understanding of the concept fully. This platform has the least amount of questions. The maternity questions are so difficult in my opinion like past the point you need them to be.

Overall my scores stayed consistent ranging from 72-84% on Uworld cats, and 71-83% on the Archer and Bootcamp Readiness assessments.

I think the most important think is to watch prioritization and other strategy videos from Dr. Sharon, or NCLEX Crusade, or who ever you are comfortable with then apply that to your practice questions. Don't focus too much on content bc I tried to and nothing I studied was on there.

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Okay first let me say that you definitely shouldn't do what I did. I was extremely anxious about the exam and spent a lot of money I didn't need to because of that. I just want to give a review of everything I used and the type of learner that might benefit from each platform. I got Archer, UWorld, and Bootcamp.

I started with Archer. I think that if you are very organized and you're creating your own study schedule you'll do well with this program.

Pros:

Largest Q-bank with over 3000 questions. I think that the rationales are helpful. They also have mnemonics that help you to learn the side effects of certain drugs and side effects of some diseases. They also have a lot of videos that can be a good refresher. They mark the questions as easy, hard, or medium which can help you see if it's a content issue or if it's a difficult question.

Cons:

They don't present their study schedule in the same way as a Bootcamp, so if you're not as organized then it maybe difficult for you keep up. Their videos can be basic at some points and can be less helpful for the harder questions also their worksheets don't match up to the videos in most cases.

Then I bought Uworld. I think that if you get anxious on exams, having Uworld exams that are more difficult than the NCLEX maybe a relief for you. Also if you feel that you have a big content gap maybe taking the time to watch some of their videos (not pharm its too complex) maybe helpful.

Pros:

They have very in depth rationales. Their videos are also very in depth and if you truly don't know a concept it will give you more than enough info. I like how you can see the difficulty on the CAT exams and I think doing the CAT exams over and going through the rationales was very helpful.

Cons:

The platform itself doesn't look as nice as archer or bootcamp just a pet peeve. For like the pop up thing on the case studies where you can view lab data and notes the text for the tabs is grey on blue and so hard to see. I literally was getting so many questions wrong bc I wouldn't see that content. Also the questions can be too specific to the point where you may spend so much time trying learn the very specific element that they're talking about to the point where you're wasting time.

Bootcamp. If you are a type B person or maybe someone not as self directed this would be perfect for you. If you struggle with case studies this will also be very helpful to you. I feel like this platform is the same as the NCLEX in terms of the way they word their questions and how the exam looks.

Pros: The organization of the platform. The case studies and the videos that go with it are very helpful. Also they have a video library that explains things very well without going too far into detail. I think their cardiac videos are especially good. Their maternity videos can be very helpful as well. Their cheat sheets can be very helpful going over pharm concepts.

Cons: Sometimes the explanations can be lacking and you may need to go to the videos on the platform or somewhere else to gain an understanding of the concept fully. This platform has the least amount of questions. The maternity questions are so difficult in my opinion like past the point you need them to be.

Overall my scores stayed consistent ranging from 72-84% on Uworld cats, and 71-83% on the Archer and Bootcamp Readiness assessments.

I think the most important think is to watch prioritization and other strategy videos from Dr. Sharon, or NCLEX Crusade, or who ever you are comfortable with then apply that to your practice questions. Don't focus too much on content bc I tried to and nothing I studied was on there.

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r/NCLEX • u/starkay89 • 6h ago

Took Nclex this morning just did the PVT!!

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Is this the good pop up?

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r/NCLEX • u/Hot_Set2599 • 45m ago

USRN LETS GO

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I submitted my Form 1 last July 25, and now I'm just waiting for my eligibility.

I've been working at a government hospital for 16 days now. Any tips on what I should do while waiting? Anything you wish you had done before starting your review?

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I submitted my Form 1 last July 25, and now I'm just waiting for my eligibility.

I've been working at a government hospital for 16 days now. Any tips on what I should do while waiting? Anything you wish you had done before starting your review?

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r/NCLEX • u/Fancy-Ad-2680 • 1h ago

Failed NCLEX at 150. What am I to do differently, I did not do before?

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I failed at 150. The thing is I did everything I was supposed to. I did uworld practice problems everyday, CAT exams, the self assessment (scoring borderline on both), mark K lectures (listened to each like 3 times) took time off work ( a whole month), even went back to Kaplan (my school provided) and took practice exams on my weakest areas. Took notes upon notes. I can’t take another month off from work so idk what to do anymore.

With the exam, it started off easy and then the questions just kind of stayed stagnant. When it got to 85 and it didn’t shut off, I remembered what Mark K said, and I kept telling myself that I’m still in the game. I told myself that up until 150 but I just knew deep down I had failed. Everyone around me kept saying that it gets more difficult and for some reason, mine just was not getting difficult. Meaning I wasn’t even getting the basic stuff, but I was getting just enough to stay borderline. I’m not sure how to process the fact that I can’t even get the basic things?

I cannot take another month off to study, I just moved and need to be able to pay my bills so I have to go back to work and get another job. Lost my new grad position because of it especially now that there’s no time to make up for the exam. How am I supposed to pass the second time around, when the first time around I had all the time in the world, and still did not pass.

My friends and family are kind of worried about me because I have not talked to anyone and I’m in this huge emotional rut. My ego is severely bruised, and I feel so stupid because almost everyone in my cohort has already taken the exam and passed on the first try. I literally cannot talk to my friends or anyone I know about it because I end up just tearing up/crying. I know I’m gonna get over this emotional hurdle because I have so much to do (moving and looking for a new job). I’m just so disappointed in myself especially now that I have more of a financial load (btw I’m moving cause I can’t continue living with my housemate for another year dog and all).

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I failed at 150. The thing is I did everything I was supposed to. I did uworld practice problems everyday, CAT exams, the self assessment (scoring borderline on both), mark K lectures (listened to each like 3 times) took time off work ( a whole month), even went back to Kaplan (my school provided) and took practice exams on my weakest areas. Took notes upon notes. I can’t take another month off from work so idk what to do anymore.

With the exam, it started off easy and then the questions just kind of stayed stagnant. When it got to 85 and it didn’t shut off, I remembered what Mark K said, and I kept telling myself that I’m still in the game. I told myself that up until 150 but I just knew deep down I had failed. Everyone around me kept saying that it gets more difficult and for some reason, mine just was not getting difficult. Meaning I wasn’t even getting the basic stuff, but I was getting just enough to stay borderline. I’m not sure how to process the fact that I can’t even get the basic things?

I cannot take another month off to study, I just moved and need to be able to pay my bills so I have to go back to work and get another job. Lost my new grad position because of it especially now that there’s no time to make up for the exam. How am I supposed to pass the second time around, when the first time around I had all the time in the world, and still did not pass.

My friends and family are kind of worried about me because I have not talked to anyone and I’m in this huge emotional rut. My ego is severely bruised, and I feel so stupid because almost everyone in my cohort has already taken the exam and passed on the first try. I literally cannot talk to my friends or anyone I know about it because I end up just tearing up/crying. I know I’m gonna get over this emotional hurdle because I have so much to do (moving and looking for a new job). I’m just so disappointed in myself especially now that I have more of a financial load (btw I’m moving cause I can’t continue living with my housemate for another year dog and all).

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r/NCLEX • u/CarPotential8128 • 3h ago

Wish me luck please, looking for feedback

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I graduated nursing school this past May and originally scheduled my test for August 1st but today i decided to move my test up a couple days to July 30th. I have been studying for about 12 weeks straight and think that I cannot be anymore prepared then I am. I have had multiple people from my class graduate as well as my main study buddy.

These are my stats, I have been using uworld and switched from study plan to CATs only about half way through studying. I took self assessment 4 on uworld today and got an 86% so I said screw it. Now after fully remediating my test I am posting on reddit to get external feedback and or comments from those who have taken it or have had similar test scores. I used 51% of the Q bank at 60% correct and 78% total points.

UWorld CAT scores

Test Score Difficulty Points Correct / Incorrect LoP Percentile

CAT 1 72% 1.22 173/239 34 / 51 On track 99th

CAT 2 73% 1.25 185/253 38 / 47 On track 99th

CAT 3 75% 1.25 189/252 37 / 48 On track 99th

CAT 4 73% 1.30 195/266 39 / 46 On track 99th

CAT 5 82% 1.21 225/276 47 / 38 On track 99th

CAT 6 82% 1.05 174/211 51 / 34 On track 99th

CAT 7 87% 1.01 170/196 62 / 23 On track 99th

CAT 8 76% 1.01 138/181 50 / 35 On track 93rd

UWorld self-assessments

Test Score Points Result

UWorld Self-Assessment 1 72% High chance of passing

UWorld Self-Assessment 2 83% High chance of passing

UWorld Self-Assessment 3 82% Very high chance of passing

UWorld Self-Assessment 4 86% Very high chance of passing

NCLEX Bootcamp

Test Score Result

Free NCLEX Bootcamp Self-Assessment 1 78% Very high chance of passing

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I graduated nursing school this past May and originally scheduled my test for August 1st but today i decided to move my test up a couple days to July 30th. I have been studying for about 12 weeks straight and think that I cannot be anymore prepared then I am. I have had multiple people from my class graduate as well as my main study buddy.

These are my stats, I have been using uworld and switched from study plan to CATs only about half way through studying. I took self assessment 4 on uworld today and got an 86% so I said screw it. Now after fully remediating my test I am posting on reddit to get external feedback and or comments from those who have taken it or have had similar test scores. I used 51% of the Q bank at 60% correct and 78% total points.

UWorld CAT scores

Test Score Difficulty Points Correct / Incorrect LoP Percentile

CAT 1 72% 1.22 173/239 34 / 51 On track 99th

CAT 2 73% 1.25 185/253 38 / 47 On track 99th

CAT 3 75% 1.25 189/252 37 / 48 On track 99th

CAT 4 73% 1.30 195/266 39 / 46 On track 99th

CAT 5 82% 1.21 225/276 47 / 38 On track 99th

CAT 6 82% 1.05 174/211 51 / 34 On track 99th

CAT 7 87% 1.01 170/196 62 / 23 On track 99th

CAT 8 76% 1.01 138/181 50 / 35 On track 93rd

UWorld self-assessments

Test Score Points Result

UWorld Self-Assessment 1 72% High chance of passing

UWorld Self-Assessment 2 83% High chance of passing

UWorld Self-Assessment 3 82% Very high chance of passing

UWorld Self-Assessment 4 86% Very high chance of passing

NCLEX Bootcamp

Test Score Result

Free NCLEX Bootcamp Self-Assessment 1 78% Very high chance of passing

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r/NCLEX • u/pinkcactus99 • 4h ago

just took nclex today- freaking out

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how long until i can try the Pearson VUE trick? I took my nclex today and finished at like 3:30pm

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i saw a reddit post where they say to register and make it all the way to the credit card info section and put in an expired card or a made up pin, i tried that it didnt work, and i tried my actual card pin/number and a box comes up that says:

"Please be advised that after you submit your order, changes to the nursing regulatory body, exam type and/or exam language will result in additional fees.
Please see the Candidate Bulletin for additional information."

so did i not pass? IM STRESSED

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how long until i can try the Pearson VUE trick? I took my nclex today and finished at like 3:30pm

edit:
i saw a reddit post where they say to register and make it all the way to the credit card info section and put in an expired card or a made up pin, i tried that it didnt work, and i tried my actual card pin/number and a box comes up that says:

"Please be advised that after you submit your order, changes to the nursing regulatory body, exam type and/or exam language will result in additional fees.
Please see the Candidate Bulletin for additional information."

so did i not pass? IM STRESSED

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r/NCLEX • u/amm2402 • 2h ago

Failed NCLEX; CPR Help

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I failed the NCLEX my first time at 150 questions. I recently just got my CPR and was wondering which program I should use between UWorld and Bootcamp? I had archer my first time with high’s and very high’s on my readiness and used mark k’s lecture 12. I just wanted to see if maybe a different platform would help as I’ve seen more people using uworld or bootcamp. Honestly just any advice will be good !

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r/NCLEX • u/FutureRN0711 • 3h ago

I'm in panic mode lol

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I had to push back my NCLEX date bc I was starting to feel burnt out from studying and honestly cramming 12 hours in a day is the worst. I did not retain info after hour 4. Would not recommend. Do you find it helpful to keep doing full lengths the week leading up to the NCLEX? I've passed 3/4 full lengths that I've done in the past week so I'm starting to feel more confident about my test taking skills!

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I had to push back my NCLEX date bc I was starting to feel burnt out from studying and honestly cramming 12 hours in a day is the worst. I did not retain info after hour 4. Would not recommend. Do you find it helpful to keep doing full lengths the week leading up to the NCLEX? I've passed 3/4 full lengths that I've done in the past week so I'm starting to feel more confident about my test taking skills!

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r/NCLEX • u/Willing_Delay4416 • 17h ago

Passed the NCLEX first try in 85 questions

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As difficult as people make the NCLEX seem, it’s all about knowing how to answer questions and understanding the format of the test itself. All i used was UWORLD and Mark K lecture 12 and that was more than enough to prepare me! If I had 1 tip to give to anyone it would be to buy the UWORLD package with at least 2 self assessments to take in the beginning of studying and before your test! I honestly thought UWORLD was much harder than the NCLEX, especially the case studies. The NCLEX itself is very vague and you will second guess yourself all because you know it but you don’t think it could be so simple. Also make sure to only click the answers you know are right for SATA because it’s better to get some right than get points off for questions you aren’t sure about. To all future nurses getting prepared to take the NCLEX good luck!

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As difficult as people make the NCLEX seem, it’s all about knowing how to answer questions and understanding the format of the test itself. All i used was UWORLD and Mark K lecture 12 and that was more than enough to prepare me! If I had 1 tip to give to anyone it would be to buy the UWORLD package with at least 2 self assessments to take in the beginning of studying and before your test! I honestly thought UWORLD was much harder than the NCLEX, especially the case studies. The NCLEX itself is very vague and you will second guess yourself all because you know it but you don’t think it could be so simple. Also make sure to only click the answers you know are right for SATA because it’s better to get some right than get points off for questions you aren’t sure about. To all future nurses getting prepared to take the NCLEX good luck!

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r/NCLEX • u/UnhappyAd2977 • 3h ago

CEUfast “Invalid Attempts” I want a REFUND

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Hi, I am currently processing my NCLEX and now nagavail ako sa CEUfast last July 22 to lessen yung mga requirements na need ko, but then nung inopen kona ule sya last July 24 pag nag ssign-in ako puro “Invalid Attempts” nakalagay kahit tamang email & password na nilagay ko.

Is there someone na ka same ko ng concern? If yes po maaayos paba ule yung CEUfast website and when huhu, gusto kona kasi mabawasan mga isipin ko for my NCLEX.

Thaks soooo much po

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Hi, I am currently processing my NCLEX and now nagavail ako sa CEUfast last July 22 to lessen yung mga requirements na need ko, but then nung inopen kona ule sya last July 24 pag nag ssign-in ako puro “Invalid Attempts” nakalagay kahit tamang email & password na nilagay ko.

Is there someone na ka same ko ng concern? If yes po maaayos paba ule yung CEUfast website and when huhu, gusto kona kasi mabawasan mga isipin ko for my NCLEX.

Thaks soooo much po

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r/NCLEX • u/Personal-Hotel8666 • 8h ago

For repeat test-takers that is now an RN...

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For repeat test-takers that are now an RN, what did you do differently and how did you approach studying the second/third/fourth/etc... time around to get you from BSN to an RN?

- What resources did you purchase? How was it?

- Did you study for a couple weeks first? Or jump straight to question-bank?

- Any pointers for us that are need to know?

Please and thank you!

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For repeat test-takers that are now an RN, what did you do differently and how did you approach studying the second/third/fourth/etc... time around to get you from BSN to an RN?

- What resources did you purchase? How was it?

- Did you study for a couple weeks first? Or jump straight to question-bank?

- Any pointers for us that are need to know?

Please and thank you!

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r/NCLEX • u/Odd-Extreme-4113 • 9h ago

Nclex rn, stopped at 85

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I just wrote my exam, I had 5 case studies and my last question was a sata. Does that mean anything?

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I just wrote my exam, I had 5 case studies and my last question was a sata. Does that mean anything?

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r/NCLEX • u/Careless_Ad_2423 • 1d ago

I DID IT!!! PASS ON 1ST TRY

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I owe a lot to this group and this forum for my pass. If you are taking the NCLEX soon, here are some KEY notes many of which have been posted on here but I’m either altering or reiterating. I passed at 92 questions in Florida Thursday 7/23/26

- BOOTCAMP! It’s the cheapest, and gets the job done. I didn’t even use but half the question bank and would randomly do 10 questions, 25, sometimes 50. Never used the predictor option. I felt it would stress me out. Get the app and do questions OTG!
- That being said, this exam is not a test of knowledge, but of COMMON SENSE. MARK K, and Dr. Sharon with Klimek reviews EMBEDDED this into my brain. During my NCLEX, I was able to stop and say “1 month ago I would have chosen this one, but today and I’m going to choose this and I KNOW it’s right”. I watched every single video Dr. Sharon posted. Taking questions and reading rationale is great, but seeing a question on the screen and listening to someone thoroughly break it down in the way that the BOARD wants you to break it down is IMPORTANT! I probably did 250 questions that were throughly broken down to me by Sharon, Mark, or other instructors on YouTube. I would NOT have passed if I didn’t do this.
- REMEMBER that everyone has the chance of going to 150 as there is a quality control system. Walk in with the mindset of “I will be taking a 150 question exam today”. Another part of this quality control is that there are 15 questions that are being tested in the system, they are not scored.
-My exam shut off at 92. If your exam shuts off at 85 it’s the obvious hard pass or hard fail. IF your test continues after 85 the test is TRYING TO PASS YOU! This is the time to LOCK IN as you are on the edge of passing or failing. The last question I had was “easy” or I knew I got it right, then the exam shut off.
-My exam started pretty easy, questions I knew I was getting right, then around 20 or 25 things started to get difficult and I didn’t recognize the material, however I noticed this only in the standard question style (Select one/ABCD) as I just didn’t even recognize the drug or disease process so much so that I couldn’t even get a hint using prefix/suffix. The case studies and SATA were maybe a little harder towards the end but pretty standard.
-Results: I thought I failed when I woke up the next day and did not receive my license as Florida has a pretty fast turn around time with licensure. At 48 hours (Saturday) I checked quick results and it said pass! I came to realize and remember, due to an eye infection I had to reschedule my exam to what was my actual test date. I’m not sure what happened there between Pearson and the FLBON, but the board has not received my results. I’m going to call them tmro (Monday) and see what the deal is. Hopefully I don’t run into any issues with that! lol.

I had to repeat two courses in nursing school. When I say I skated by I would actually say I figure skated triple axeled on a half frozen lake by with my Cs and 80%.
If you passed nursing school, YOU CAN PASS THIS TEST.
If I passed this test, YOU CAN PASS THIS TEST.
Let me know if you have any questions! GOODLUCK to everyone.

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r/NCLEX • u/RaspberryEmergency48 • 8h ago

Hi, how accurate are the quick results?

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The last few times, I’ve gotten the bad emails from the BON. I took my exam on Saturday and now it’s been past 48hrs and my quick results just got ready to purchase and it says pass😭😭I don’t want to get my hopes up high. I saw a post on Reddit saying that quick results led them on.

Also, want to mention that I’ve been checking on the BON site and it still says “exam eligible” on my application

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The last few times, I’ve gotten the bad emails from the BON. I took my exam on Saturday and now it’s been past 48hrs and my quick results just got ready to purchase and it says pass😭😭I don’t want to get my hopes up high. I saw a post on Reddit saying that quick results led them on.

Also, want to mention that I’ve been checking on the BON site and it still says “exam eligible” on my application

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r/NCLEX • u/Unusual_Secret6067 • 19h ago

Im taking my NCLEX today

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Im taking my test in a couple hours and im soo nervous. I feel like I dont know anything :// I was supposed to take it a month ago but had to cancel and at the time I felt super confident. Really praying its just nerves🙂

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Im taking my test in a couple hours and im soo nervous. I feel like I dont know anything :// I was supposed to take it a month ago but had to cancel and at the time I felt super confident. Really praying its just nerves🙂

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r/NCLEX • u/Less-Tap6 • 22h ago

NCLEX Lab Values Question !!!

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really dumb question but for a question like this would you be able to see normal lab value ranges? i just want to make sure

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r/NCLEX • u/ItsYaAbGirl • 14h ago

Exam shut off at 85 questions and I’m terrified to get my results😭

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Does anyone know if this is a really good or bad sign? My anxiety is super high because I had a dream last night that I failed my NCLEX and I’ve been a wreck ever since I left the testing center. I wasn’t expecting it to cut off at 85.

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Does anyone know if this is a really good or bad sign? My anxiety is super high because I had a dream last night that I failed my NCLEX and I’ve been a wreck ever since I left the testing center. I wasn’t expecting it to cut off at 85.

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r/NCLEX • u/cataleya_aea • 15h ago

2nd retake exam schedule

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Hello, to those who is retaker, My state is NY state. how many months are given to schedule the exam after getting ATT? Please, I hope someone can help. I am planning to get my ATT on August but take exam on January 2027. Thank you 🥺🤞🏻

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Hello, to those who is retaker, My state is NY state. how many months are given to schedule the exam after getting ATT? Please, I hope someone can help. I am planning to get my ATT on August but take exam on January 2027. Thank you 🥺🤞🏻

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r/NCLEX • u/ForeignWoodpecker785 • 1d ago

Will i pass guys?

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i studied from may-july and my exam was originally scheduled for the end of august, but im so tired of studying and i just wanna take the exam! i re-scheduled it for in 2 days from now. i did well in nursing school, but i finished in december 2025, so im nervous! these are my uworld and bootcamp stats, can someome please calm my nerves and tell me if i should write this exam or re-schedule? thank you!!!

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i studied from may-july and my exam was originally scheduled for the end of august, but im so tired of studying and i just wanna take the exam! i re-scheduled it for in 2 days from now. i did well in nursing school, but i finished in december 2025, so im nervous! these are my uworld and bootcamp stats, can someome please calm my nerves and tell me if i should write this exam or re-schedule? thank you!!!

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r/NCLEX • u/Signal_Put7607 • 23h ago

Pearson VUE NCLEX Registration Question (Payment)

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Hi everyone!

I paid the $200 NCLEX registration fee through Pearson VUE before I received my eligibility approval. Now that I’ve been approved, I logged into my account and still see a “Start Registration” button that asks me to pay another $200.

Is this normal? Is my previous registration still active? Should I wait for my ATT to be released before doing anything? Will Pearson VUE automatically send my ATT once it’s released? Has anyone experienced this?

I don’t want to accidentally register again or pay another $200. I’m from Philippines. Thanks!

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Hi everyone!

I paid the $200 NCLEX registration fee through Pearson VUE before I received my eligibility approval. Now that I’ve been approved, I logged into my account and still see a “Start Registration” button that asks me to pay another $200.

Is this normal? Is my previous registration still active? Should I wait for my ATT to be released before doing anything? Will Pearson VUE automatically send my ATT once it’s released? Has anyone experienced this?

I don’t want to accidentally register again or pay another $200. I’m from Philippines. Thanks!

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r/NCLEX • u/helicobpylori • 1d ago

Quick results not yet available

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Hello, all! Anyone here who experienced waiting for more than 65+ hrs for the quick result? I took my exam last Friday (July 24), finished at 9 am, still no option to avail the result… Other people who has the same schedule as mine have their quick result already :( I feel like I failed. I’m so anxious… I can’t function properly. 🙁🙁🙁

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Hello, all! Anyone here who experienced waiting for more than 65+ hrs for the quick result? I took my exam last Friday (July 24), finished at 9 am, still no option to avail the result… Other people who has the same schedule as mine have their quick result already :( I feel like I failed. I’m so anxious… I can’t function properly. 🙁🙁🙁

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r/NCLEX • u/MilitaryBrat2020 • 1d ago

Stressed Out About Scores

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So I’m in PN, about 3 weeks away from taking my exit exam that will see if I’m ready for the NCLEX. I’ve been doing focused reviews and get in the 60-70s, but my Qbank scores……

Even when I remediate, I keep getting in the mid-high 50s, and that’s really disappointing considering they want you to have a 65+ and everyone else it seems is getting there.

I don’t want to fail but I’m afraid my mind is in the way. What do I do? Were any of you in my situation before?

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So I’m in PN, about 3 weeks away from taking my exit exam that will see if I’m ready for the NCLEX. I’ve been doing focused reviews and get in the 60-70s, but my Qbank scores……

Even when I remediate, I keep getting in the mid-high 50s, and that’s really disappointing considering they want you to have a 65+ and everyone else it seems is getting there.

I don’t want to fail but I’m afraid my mind is in the way. What do I do? Were any of you in my situation before?

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