Can't get more than 73%

ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG

I'm soooooooo incredibly frustrated ATM - one of my courses requires us to take quizzes and get more than 80% on them - rationale is that if we can get 80% then we should  will be able to pass the NCLEX when we go to take it.

I've taken this test twice now (we can take it as many times as we want til we get >80%) - I originally got 73% then second time I DROPPED!!!!  WTF??!!!

Unfortunately, this stupid program doesn't tell you WHICH questions you get wrong just a general area that you need to improve upon and where to find (somewhat) the answer. Problem is is that they're asking questions that we haven't even studied - though some of them have been covered in pharmacology - and some of them I know from the previous BSN attempt.

Hell I even went back to the ONLINE text and tried to figure out where I was going wrong.... and to the TEXT BOOK - trying to figure out where I went wrong. I mean, I WANT to learn from my mistakes and FIX them.... it's not even about getting a better grade (though that would be nice!) I just want to learn where I'm going wrong and correct that shit.

Goddamn I hate psych!!! RRRRRGGGGGGG fucking banee of my existance - honestly!

How can ANYONE on this earth actually enjoy this shit?! I understand that regardless of where I settle for my nursing career that there will |ALWAYS be some element of psych (patients or the families) but geeze I would rather feign ignorance then have to deal with full blown psych issues. I guess that's part of the reason why I want to go to the NICU - general rule of thumb is that families are only allowed to visit for small chunks of time and therefore less interactins - therefore most of my issues deal with the infants themselves and they don't have psych issues (withdrawl maybe but that's something else entirely).

HELPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!

Well that sucked!

So I went and took the NCLEX-PN, pretty sure I failed.

The computer kicked me out at 85 questions. Pretty sure that's a sure sign I failed.

Guess I'm paying another $200 to write it again in 3 months time.

Damnit! And I did a prep book, 4 courses (though they were for school, they should still have helped me prepare for the exam), and 2 online NCLEX-PN prep exams. Man I feel like an idiot!!!!

I have to wait for monday (officially 48 business hours) til I can UNofficially find out if I passed or failed.

Guess I'll post when I find out then.

NCLEX-PN - wish me luck!

This week is rather a biggie - I take my NCLEX-PN exam.

So now hubby wants me to do the practice exams. That's what tomorrow is going to consist of.

Then tomorrow night, we head to Niagara falls to have a romantic (less so considering we have to bring the 3 1/2 yr old with us as no one can watch her while we're gone) night away and then I do my exam on Thursday morning.

I have to admit, I'm not as nervous to take this one. I think it's because I've been working and been able to see quite a few different disease processes and diagnoses and such. I feel like because of the experience with working, I have more knowledge from the "real" world and not just the one that lives in side text books. Anyone else see it that way?

I sure hope I pass this on one try, I'll certainly feel really defeated if I don't!