Is it true that candidate who receive the minimum number of items with the last item easy will fail?
Candidates cannot reliably identify which items are easy and which items are difficult with regard to the NCLEX scale. At the end of an examination, a candidate is usually receiving items that they have approximately a 50/50 chance of answering correctly. Typically, candidates regard questions that they can answer correctly only half the time as difficult. The candidate’s sense of what is easy and what is difficult is relative to their ability. Because the examination is adaptive, both high and low ability candidates will think the items at the end of the test are challenging. Source: www.ncsbn.
