Hello, future RNs,
I promise myself that I will post my Nclex experience here after I pass Nclex. My location is California. I was an above-average student in my nursing program; I got mostly As, and a few Bs, mostly level 2 proctored. I graduated at the beginning of April 2022, I took my Nclex on May 4, 2022. I got my RN license on May 5, 2022, around 11-11:15 pm. My school was ATI heavy and I also did Greenlight with VATI while using Uworld for my Nclex. My Uworld performance was not too well, I finished the entire qbank and got a 53% average, and my first assessment was 57% which put me in borderline passing range. I took the assessment just a week before my Nclex, and I was worrying and almost reschedule because almost all my friends did well on the first assessment. I started to panic and search if anyone had similar experiences like mine and still pass Nclex. And I found many!!! Some of them suggested that redo all the incorrect questions and write them down to help yourself to remember and understand; so I did, and it really helped out a lot!!! I also studied the famous Mark K since I was still in school.
My Nclex exam was very very very hard for me and very challenging, I took my sweet time sitting there and thinking and thinking and thinking, and I had a mental breakdown during my exam because I almost couldn't use any Mark K method to answer them. Mark K did help a little bit, I would say it's about 5%. But mostly, my exam was very Uworld-based, the prioritized questions are very like Uworld and they were the portion that I remembered did not do too well in my Uworld qbank.
I was crying after I finished my exam for 4 hours and felt that I was the worst, the dumbest in the world. I thought I fail because I only got very little SATA, I think I only got 10 to 12 SATA, so when my screen shut off on 75, I felt dead inside. And I had to finish the experiment survey for the next generation, my eyes were watery and confused while trying to answer these case studies.
Then after 4 hours cried out, I didn't have the gut to try Pearson Vue Trick, it was my buddy who did it for me, and the moment he told me that it was a "Good pop-up", I was crying and screaming at the Costco gas line because I couldn't believe it. Then I went home and did it again and again and again to convince myself that I might actually pass it.
Then my name with my license number was on BRN the next day after my Nclex. I want to encourage people through my experience to understand that the scores you got in Uworld performance don't define your success in Nclex, it is a tool to help you to determine your general preparedness status. I had around 1000 incorrect questions a week before my Nclex, and I remediate them every day and wrote them down by using my own words. I had around 650 incorrect questions still in my qbank the day I took my Nclex. I didn't even do the second assessment because I rather do 100 remediations instead of getting more depressed since I did not do too well on my first assessment. And I passed Nclex with 75 questions!!! Now I do feel Greenlight had helped out for my based understanding but Uworld helped me out the most and helped me pass Nclex!!! I made it, I can do it, and so can you!!!