The NCLEX is finished - for better or for worse. I was photographed, fingerprinted, shook down, and escorted to my testing station (by very nice Pearson Center employees) for 75 questions to determine whether or not I can practice as a nurse. I spent last night looking up stuff on the internet from people that failed the test as a way to pre-emptively console myself that it was going to be okay if I sucked it up a little.
So with 75 questions, I either passed with flying colors or failed miserably. The beauty of the test design is that you can't tell which you did because everyone finishes only answering 50% of the questions correctly. The key is that you finish at 50% on a higher difficulty level. For more on that you can read about the test
here. Surprisingly, reading about other people that had failed was comforting.
With 24 hours until I find out if I passed, I decided to list a few things that involve the prodigious number 75:
1) 75% - a Gentleman's C. Good enough to get you out of Yale and elected to high national office.
2) 75 years ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level in the Great Depression (you can only go up from here!)
3) In '75, Jaws debuted (and most of the characters survived).
4) Rhenium the 75th element is one of the 10 most expensive metals on earth (if Wikipedia is to be believed).
5)
Mona Shaw is a 75 year-old retired nurse from Virginia that smashed up her local
Comcast office with a hammer. While we don't condone violence, we commend Mona for her sitcom-
esque flourish. Double points if she told the customer service rep "
Fo'
Shizzle My
Nizzle!"
