All I found was "Passing standard for the NCLEX-RN Examination raised by the NCSBN Board of Directors."  on the ncsbn website.

https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm

Interesting... I was wondering about those "logits" myself.  I tried reading the pdf about them which explained their role in how the NCLEX functioned (as you said, an adaptive kind of test) but I have to admit I'm still a bit lost about what they are.

I was told you will have to know how to work a ventilator and there will be new alternative choice question. This change will happen in April 2010!

so i heard from my instructor that there are a few changes for the April 2010 nclex.  definitely more alternative style questions than there already are.  Actually, i am taking the boards in a month and she said that there may already be questions where you have to listen to heart  OR   breath sounds.  so anyone planning to take the test in early 2010, definitely find a website to listen to those sounds! good luck

http://evolve.elsevier.com is a good website, I use it for all my clinical skills practices. I will see if they have a ventilator course. Check it out. You have to register first. Happy Newryear to everyone!!!

theala says ...

The NCLEX RN is a computer adaptive test.

What this means is the difficulty level of the questions changes in response to the number of correct and incorrect answers the candidate gives during the exam.  With each right answer, subsequent questions become harder and harder until the candidate misses a question.  The next question is easier, and easier until another correct answer is scored.

The test scores not based on the number of right or wrong answers, but on the number of right answers of a certain difficulty level.  The test uses a mathematical algorhythm to determine if a candidate is competent to practice nursing.

The logits mentioned on the NCSBN website are the statistical differences in difficulty level that the test uses to determine competency.  I don't completely understand how that works myself, but that's the gist of it.

Bear in mind, you can get every single knowledge/comprehension question right and still fail NCLEX.  The NCLEX does not care WHAT you know.

It cares that you know what to DO.  What an RN would do, not the doctor.

 

Shanakac says ...

Someone told me that they had to put on headphones to listen and identify heart sounds.

 

I took my test yesterday, and I had to identify lung sounds in a person who was in heart failure.  I don't remember if it was right or left, but I do now they do not sound like real breath sounds.  It sounds like the breath sounds from the manikins at the sim centers (We have simulation centers where we take care of patients in different scenarios.  The patients are computerized manikins.)

I am about to graduate a nursing program and I know that they say they are going to start changing the exams every three years and this started back in 2003...so in 2007 there was a new exam and in 2010 (April 1st to be exact) there is a new exam and the exam is suppose to be more realistic to what nurses are doing in practice today.  The national exam people survey current nurses in practice and based in what they say the new exam will apply what they do on a everyday basis.  Also, the pharm questions will now have just the generic names and not the trademarks anymore...The exam is computer adaptive so the better you do the harder the questions but if you are having difficulty they will give you easier questions to try and get you back on track and based on my instructors the questions will be the basic requirements to be a nurse and some of the questions will include some future questions for future exams....

I take my HESI this week and a nurse in the unit where i am doing my role transition said the HESI is the best exam to prepare you for the new exam...

 I just took my NCLEX on July 7. I am NYS.  I had 263 questions. Most were delegation, priority and select all that apply. There were headphones and I was informed that there would be audio on my exam but I did not have any.  I did have to pick out an EKG strip in relation to Digoxin, I had a math question that I had to type in the answer and there was a picture of a would and I had to state what kind of dressing I would put on it.  

I think that I am horrible at select all that apply. I was nauseous when I came out of the exam. I was there for about the full 6 hours.  I have the option but have decided not to pay to find out my results.  I thought the exam was hard. I really hope I don't have to take it again. 

Yeah I heard they gonna try some audio questions, but i think that will be unscored. Maybe they will institute in on the next update on 2013.

To all nclex takers, read saunders nclex book from cover to cover and do lots of QnA!!!