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 2h ago

Failed NCLEX 2nd try , No Job, No routine

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Hello guys 22F failed my NCLEX for the 2nd time. I wrote it yesterday and the exam stopped at 150qs just like my first time. I have been feeling very down since. I graduated nursing school last year June. I followed all the advice from last post , purchased BOOTCAMP. Which I got 4 high chances of passing in the readiness exams. I did 95% of the qs bank . I got into a routine for the two weeks leading up to the exam going to the library everyday, following the schedule BOOTCAMP provided but to no avail. I feel the NCLEX questions are a lot harder and worded totally different. I did not watch the mark K lectures I did read the notes on lecture 12. Maybe I think now I should focus on that . If anyone has any tips on how I can boost my chance for next time will be greatly appreciated. The NCLEX is no easy feat. Below I attached my CPR.


r/NCLEX 4h ago

Took the NCLEX an hour ago

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bro wtf was that 😭😭😭 went to 150 questions, had 5 case studies, 6 stand alone, 5 bow tie, and plenty of SATA. My U-world self assessment said “high chance of passing” and I was scoring 68-70 on CATS with a medium to hard difficulty. Not sure what to think, i’m so irritated 😭

What do you guys think? Also ask me questions if you have any abt the NCLEX! :)


r/NCLEX 4h ago

advice🩷

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does anyone have a resource they arent using anymore?? i need it for 3 weeks 🫩 . this is my 2nd attempt at the test after nearly passing at 150🫩 it would be super appreciated!


r/NCLEX 19h ago

I think I met the person who uses chatgpt to pass the NCLEX irl

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Hi Everyone,

I know we've seen those troll posts about using AI and repeating the NCLEX without any form of studying. Well the other day I was at a bar and saw someone with a Upenn hoodie on and I went up to them since my brother goes to Upenn. The person said they were a nurse and on her 6th attempt on the Nclex. Naturally, I asked what their study plans were and they said "chatgpt, gemini, and other AI tools." I started to laugh since I thought it was a joke but they were dead serious. They continued to say that they were not passionate about nursing and "will pull the plug on elderly patients if they annoy them" since they are "only there for the money." They also said that they thought about pit pocketing strangers who are coding so they can get some extra cash. They continued to say that AI is failing them and they don't understand why they continue to fail on the exam.

This interaction was so concerning. I told them to look into UWorld and private tutoring from the school and they said that they fired their tutor since they didn't pass on the second time (so they resorted to chatgpt...). I asked when their next NCLEX was and they said in five days. They were on their way to a hookup after not studying all day. I genuinely thought the person posting on here was a troll ruining this subreddit, but now I'm beginning to believe people like them actually exist.


r/NCLEX 2h ago

I took my nclex yesterday and literally think i failed

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Hi Everyone,

I took my nclex yesterday, went to 150 questions. After 85 i felt kind of bummed out the more it kept going up i just accepted having to do the full 150. I got like 5-6 case studies with the 6 questions. A long of single case studies, like 15-20 SATAS maybw more honestly , lots of prioritization, even some healthcare management stuff. I felt like i was guessing between two questions majority of the exam. On the case studies i did notice i was getting a good amount right bc it would indirectly confirm the answer the next question. But no seriously i think i failed and as much as im disappointed i feel like im accepting any outcome and honestly just grateful for the experience of taking the exam.

Wishing for the best still though, anyone have any experiences with nclex?


r/NCLEX 16m ago

NCLEX RESULT

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PLS TELL ME THIS IS THE GOOD POP UP?? TOO IT THIS MORNING 8AM AND IT STOPPED AT 113 OR 114 :(((( IM SO NERVOUS!!


r/NCLEX 2h ago

Missouri test takers!! Did I pass??

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Does this mean I passed?? Only wondering because the NCLEX results say pending…


r/NCLEX 2h ago

i just finished my nlcex

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i went up to 150 questions. i had 6 case studies, a lot of my content focused on OB and mental health. which are two of my worst subjects. :/ i feel so discouraged.


r/NCLEX 2h ago

just finished NCLEX

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So this is my second time taking the test. I went to 150 the first time as well and now this time i went to 150. I feel a lot better about this one. I had a bunch of case studies especially the stand alone case studies with only 1 question. I was kinda upset about it not stopping at 85 bc i have ptsd from failing at 150. The questions in my opinion weren’t super super hard. I felt like I knew what the question was asking most of the time. Just asking to see what my chance of passing is.


r/NCLEX 3h ago

Mark K

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Is mark k Nclex review notes good to use for the Nclex 2026?


r/NCLEX 4h ago

My NCLEX is tomorrow and I'm stressed. Am I cooked?

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I thought I would have scores in the 70's or 80's but my scores are not strong and my exam is 8am tomorrow. At this point there isn't much i can do. I'm so disappointed and scared. All my friends who passed had substantially higher scores.


r/NCLEX 12h ago

Passed on the second try !!

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\*\*\*\* passed at 85 :)))))

Hi everyone to give a quick little background story I graduated with my BSN in December and failed my first attempt in March. The first time around I will admit I did not study or prepare as well as I should have and mainly because during my nursing program they drilled ATI on to us and every semester we had to take what they called a "comp predictor" which we had to pass with a 75% or above in order to pass the semester which I did every semester, so I only used board vitals and saw that my scores were remaining around the same average but it did not prep me for the actual NCLEX at all.

After my first failed attempt I was down bad ... I felt like a fraud, like all the work I had put in during nursing school and my grades counted for nothing and on top of all of that I felt so embarrassed because I had to notify my new grad job that I had failed ...

Going into it the second time around I had originally scheduled it right at the 45 day mark and I am not exaggerating at all.. I probably rescheduled it about 10 times and kept pushing it out because I was so scared of failing again especially because my school would always "warn us" that it was much more difficult to pass it on the second try..

Things I did to prep for taking the NCLEX a second time around :

  1. Allowed my self grace ... I had to learn on how to be kind to myself and remind myself that failing my first time did not make me a failure or determine that I am not meant to be a nurse. I also gave my self the time and space to enjoy life and other things along with studying. I found this to be super helpful because the 2 weeks I dedicated all my time and energy to studying I felt miserable and found it impossible to retain any type of information.
  2. \*\* IMPORTANT\*\*\* Try and figure out your weak points (I used chat gpt and google gemini). I did this by submitting my report to chat/gemini to try and help me understand my weaknesses, this helped me immensely because it helped me realize that I was pretty solid in knowing the content but my weak points was in my test taking strategies, breaking down questions and analyzing cues.
  3. Links / videos / material that helped me : I went down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos, tiktoks, reddit posts, fb posts for any tips, tricks, advice, suggestions literally looking for anything that would help me build my confidence and test taking skills. The videos I will say that I know for a fact helped me was this video from simple nursing ([https://youtu.be/71Vmjq9GolI?si=J5c7wfLMUSvdNf6M\](https://youtu.be/71Vmjq9GolI?si=J5c7wfLMUSvdNf6M)) it helped me understand how the NCLEX questions are worded and how to break them down, and trust me I know every one says Mark K lectures but lecture 12 is the key lecture !! BUT I will say do not listen to it all at once and then go take the test, personally what I found helpful was listening to the lecture and after each helpful "tip" he would give I would then go back to my question bank and complete 50-100 questions applying that technique or until I felt like I understood how to properly use the technique. This took me about a week or so to do but if your weakness if test taking strategies like me, this helped me A TON !!
  4. Which program did I use to study? Uworld, but I will say I was just as cluelessness as anyone else and I just chose Uworld. I don't think I can recommend any other because I literally have no clue that they look like or offer but this is what I used. But along with it I utilized my candidate performance report a lot, I even uploaded it to chat gpt and gemini to help me figure out what topics/subjects to focus on and would adjust my quiz bank settings accordingly.
  5. Actually helpful .. not sure... : Since I was terrified and scared out of my mind on failing again something to help me mentally was making a "test day routine"... when I was in school I would hear that doing things like writing in red ink or smelling certain smells could help your brain remember things better .. so I decided to do a "test day" routine to help calm my nerves and make me feel like it would help me the day of 😅 ... the routine included drinking the same flavor coffee, applying my favorite essential oil on both my wrists and wearing the same sweater before every study session and the day of my exam, is there actual proof that this helped me pass .. no but I will say it did help lower my anxiety levels by a lot
  6. Day of test: I think we have all heard the eat a good meal, go to bed early before your exam day ... yea I was up in bed tossing and turning until about 1am when my exam was at 8am and I had a 45min commute on top of that. All I can say is just get there early, for me getting there 40 min before my testing time and allowing my self to just sit in my car and drink my "test day routine" coffee really helped me lower my nerves and get in the zone so to speak.

If any one needs any help or has any questions please feel free to message me I am willing to help in any way I can 😄 !!!


r/NCLEX 14h ago

Tricky Wording for Answer Choices in NCLEX

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People will say to remember that NCLEX is a safety exam and to focus on content but when I took the NCLEX, it was an information overload and constant weird phrasing of answer choices for my SATA and prioritization questions.
I passed on my first try last week with 85 questions. I just wanted to say that you can have strong foundations, but if you are unable to find and understand weird phrasing of orders/interventions between your answer choices then you’re more likely failing because of choosing the ‘technically’ wrong nursing interventions provided in your questions.
In real life, providers and other healthcare workers document patient care ambiguously. NCLEX ensures that you know how to find/understand the error between that ambiguity.


r/NCLEX 7h ago

NCLEX results

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Has anyone written for BCCNM? I wrote my exam in Ontario yesterday around 1pm but the board is BCCNM since I’ll be relocated there.

How long does it take to get your results?


r/NCLEX 7h ago

NCLEX prep course

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Does anyone know any in-person NCLEX prep courses in Los Angeles or Atlanta ?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Passed NCLEX

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Took my NCLEX 7/17 and passed first try! Going to let you know what I did to study in hopes to help someone else out there: First I did Mark K lectures all 12 (I would listen lecture 12 multiple times throughout my time studying before my exam to make sure it was ingrained into my brain lol I also listen to it on the way to my testing center day of my exam), UWorld — I did 150 questions per day and made sure to review any question I got wrong by reading and fully going over the rationale, finally I also listened to and watched Dr. Sharon on YouTube all of her videos are amazing but if I had to recommend specific ones I would say her Prioritization Playlist which is 18 videos total (this was a game changer for me!)
Ask me any questions and I’ll try as best as I can to answer and help. Rooting for all of you studying and taking the NCLEX, you got this!


r/NCLEX 16h ago

Did good on my hesi exit exam am i ready for nclex

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Hey everyone so I took my exit Hesi exam this week and scored a 900 I did not study or even prepare for it because it is only 6% of our grade. Am I ready to take my nclex like is it a good indicator of passing the nclex ?


r/NCLEX 16h ago

Nclex-RN Retake

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For those who have taken the NCLEX-RN twice did yall see some of the same content from first attempt? How different was the second attempt?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Passed on the second try !!

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\*\*\*\* passed at 85 :)))))

Hi everyone to give a quick little background story I graduated with my BSN in December and failed my first attempt in March. The first time around I will admit I did not study or prepare as well as I should have and mainly because during my nursing program they drilled ATI on to us and every semester we had to take what they called a "comp predictor" which we had to pass with a 75% or above in order to pass the semester which I did every semester, so I only used board vitals and saw that my scores were remaining around the same average but it did not prep me for the actual NCLEX at all.

After my first failed attempt I was down bad ... I felt like a fraud, like all the work I had put in during nursing school and my grades counted for nothing and on top of all of that I felt so embarrassed because I had to notify my new grad job that I had failed ...

Going into it the second time around I had originally scheduled it right at the 45 day mark and I am not exaggerating at all.. I probably rescheduled it about 10 times and kept pushing it out because I was so scared of failing again especially because my school would always "warn us" that it was much more difficult to pass it on the second try..

Things I did to prep for taking the NCLEX a second time around :

  1. Allowed my self grace ... I had to learn on how to be kind to myself and remind myself that failing my first time did not make me a failure or determine that I am not meant to be a nurse. I also gave my self the time and space to enjoy life and other things along with studying. I found this to be super helpful because the 2 weeks I dedicated all my time and energy to studying I felt miserable and found it impossible to retain any type of information.
  2. \*\* IMPORTANT\*\*\* Try and figure out your weak points (I used chat gpt and google gemini). I did this by submitting my report to chat/gemini to try and help me understand my weaknesses, this helped me immensely because it helped me realize that I was pretty solid in knowing the content but my weak points was in my test taking strategies, breaking down questions and analyzing cues.
  3. Links / videos / material that helped me : I went down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos, tiktoks, reddit posts, fb posts for any tips, tricks, advice, suggestions literally looking for anything that would help me build my confidence and test taking skills. The videos I will say that I know for a fact helped me was this video from simple nursing ([https://youtu.be/71Vmjq9GolI?si=J5c7wfLMUSvdNf6M\](https://youtu.be/71Vmjq9GolI?si=J5c7wfLMUSvdNf6M)) it helped me understand how the NCLEX questions are worded and how to break them down, and trust me I know every one says Mark K lectures but lecture 12 is the key lecture !! BUT I will say do not listen to it all at once and then go take the test, personally what I found helpful was listening to the lecture and after each helpful "tip" he would give I would then go back to my question bank and complete 50-100 questions applying that technique or until I felt like I understood how to properly use the technique. This took me about a week or so to do but if your weakness if test taking strategies like me, this helped me A TON !!
  4. Which program did I use to study? Uworld, but I will say I was just as cluelessness as anyone else and I just chose Uworld. I don't think I can recommend any other because I literally have no clue that they look like or offer but this is what I used. But along with it I utilized my candidate performance report a lot, I even uploaded it to chat gpt and gemini to help me figure out what topics/subjects to focus on and would adjust my quiz bank settings accordingly.
  5. Actually helpful .. not sure... : Since I was terrified and scared out of my mind on failing again something to help me mentally was making a "test day routine"... when I was in school I would hear that doing things like writing in red ink or smelling certain smells could help your brain remember things better .. so I decided to do a "test day" routine to help calm my nerves and make me feel like it would help me the day of 😅 ... the routine included drinking the same flavor coffee, applying my favorite essential oil on both my wrists and wearing the same sweater before every study session and the day of my exam, is there actual proof that this helped me pass .. no but I will say it did help lower my anxiety levels by a lot
  6. Day of test: I think we have all heard the eat a good meal, go to bed early before your exam day ... yea I was up in bed tossing and turning until about 1am when my exam was at 8am and I had a 45min commute on top of that. All I can say is just get there early, for me getting there 40 min before my testing time and allowing my self to just sit in my car and drink my "test day routine" coffee really helped me lower my nerves and get in the zone so to speak.

If any one needs any help or has any questions please feel free to message me I am willing to help in any way I can 😄 !!!


r/NCLEX 15h ago

question about PVT!!

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hello, my account is on hold and i think it’s due to the site having technical difficulties. i went on a 5min break and it turned into an hr due to technical difficulties…i stopped at 85 and idk my qs felt easier towards the end so i’m nervous as i’ve heard it should get harder.

i did the PVT & it brought up the hold msg but refunded me the $200 (or it disappeared from my statement) and i did it twice and it refunded (disappeared from statement) twice. idk how to feel.


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Should I trust my UWorld scores enough to schedule my NCLEX?

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I’m about to schedule my first NCLEX test date, but I’m getting really nervous. I don’t know if I’m even studying the right way or if I’m actually ready.
I’ve been using UWorld as my main study resource. My last five CAT exams have ranged from 76% to 86%, and they’ve all shut off at 85 questions. I also took a self-assessment and got a High Likelihood of Passing. My overall level of preparedness is in the 81st percentile and says I’m “On Track.”
Even with those results, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m missing something or that I’m not as prepared as I should be. Did anyone else feel this way before taking the NCLEX? Were your UWorld scores similar, and how did you end up doing on the actual exam?
I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences.


r/NCLEX 1d ago

Good pop up?

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It looks like I got the good pop up but it didn’t charge my card like everyone has been saying it does to them. Is that a bad sign?


r/NCLEX 1d ago

my exam closed at 85qns

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I had my nclex exam today this morning 7/21/26. Most of my exam were stand alone questions, 6 NGNs and 5 SAT. Hopefully I pass 🙏