I guess its time to tell my story! Sorry it is long. It took me almost 6 years to finish the nursing BSN traditional program (including pre reqs). During nursing school I got married and had a daughter during the summer♥ (yes we planned it that way) I graduated from nursing school this april 2017! I took a LONG break (5 months) after school because I felt like I really needed it! I was exhausted and I felt like I just needed to spend time with my family and clear my head. I finally decided its time to get back to studying! I purchased uworld for a month! I did 75+ questions a day and when I was finished I would review them throughout the day! SO yes I finished every single question including the experimental and assessments! Assessment 1 I had 57, two I had 52! My scores were not so good ranging around 50s. I didnt let that distract me because once I read the rational I made sure I understood why that answer was right! After such a long break my weakness was really content! If you dont know your content and how to do certain procedures like (taking care of a tracheotomy) no matter what tricks or nursing processes you use you will not answer right! I moved my test 2 times because I felt like I wasnt ready. Some days it was hard to do all the questions and reviews especially while working as well. I made notes of all rationals I thought were important after each exam that I didnt understand! Reviewed them for about another month to make sure I understand them! I listened to some of the mark k audios they were good. Test day finally came Dec 5th and I was ok when I woke up. Once I got there my anxiety started to kick in! I sat down to take the test and the more questions I kept getting the harder it was for me to concentrate! The questions in my opinion looked nothing like I have ever seen before! & I was that student during nursing school that went in confident to take every exam because I felt like I knew my stuff! It went over 100 q's and didnt stop, I literally wanted to cry because how bad my anxiety kept going up I just wanted it to end (felt like I was failing) I read some questions 5 times to try to understand what it is asking me! Questions are a lot shorter and like nothing I have seen before! Content is same as anything I studied or learned just they were worded a lot shorter and trickier! My test ended at 134 and I was like ok I failed, but thank God it was over because I just needed to get out of there how bad my anxiety was. Came home and literally cried! I felt like a failure even after all that preparation. Did the person trick 4 hours later and saw good pop up. It helped me calm down a little but still felt like I failed and that I will be the unlucky one that got a good pop up but failed. Found out today through quick results I PASSED! & Yes I still cried because after all those years it felt like I could finally breath a little more! My recommendation is to KNOW YOU CONTENT! & dont expect the questions to look like UWORLD or anything else that u are studying! On the end they all are asking similar things but what u really want is to understand the CONTENT! & also if u are like me PLEASE find a way to calm your nerves down because I didnt think I was going to be so nervous! I told myself I was ready to do all 265 but when I got there 75 was in my head and when it went over 75 I just lost it. I am lucky I passed with how much anxiety I had! & I am usually not a anxious person! GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU & let me know if you have any questions! I will not discuss what type of questions I had because it is not aloud but I didn't get many SATAS maybe 15. If you dont know something learn it because on the end its not for a test that u need it, you need it to save peoples lives!

Congratulations!!!! I found your testimony very helpful. Thanks a lot.

congratulations RN!!!!! wish us luck in our RN journey too!

Congrats and thanks for your motivating story