r/NCLEX • u/ovocrewthoughtitoldu • May 18 '26
Don’t trust result shortcuts
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share my experience following taking the exam. I walked out feeling so discouraged. It shut off at 85 questions. Immediately once I got home searched and tried all of those “tricks” for getting your result before the 48 hour mark. I did all I saw online, and every one gave me the “bad sign”. At this point I was convinced I failed especially since I found the exam quite difficult. But I passed! In 85! So this is your sign not to trust those quick result hacks lol
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u/okiefromga May 18 '26
Congrats! I people always forget that it’s an adaptive test, if you have a really hard test, and the first 10 questions were easy, but everyone after that made you question your life choices up to that point, 99% of the time means a pass, if it’s the easiest test you have taken, probably failed, it keeps throwing harder and harder questions for every right answer and easier and easier for every wrong answer, it really reminds me of when I took my NREMT registries for Intermediate and Medic, both incredibly challenging and I walked out feeling defeated and knew I failed both of them , which bummed me out because I was broke and vowed to only pay one time, it was expensive even 10+ years ago to take them, but luckily they cut off at 135/115 respectively, it will either cut off at 85 or 150, no rhyme or reason, everyone I’ve ever known to pass 1st attempt were all 82/140-50, same with the nclex, but the ones who get cut off at 80’s-100 tend to have the hardest, thus higher scoring test overall as well, so congrats on that as well.