# Did I pass my national boards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043 "2010-11-18T00:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/1 "2010-11-18T00:42:03Z")
I’ll find out Friday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/2 "2010-11-18T01:30:26Z")
did you take your test through Pearson-Vue? If you did, I might know a hack you could try to find out sooner. Anyway, good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/3 "2010-11-18T03:28:04Z")
What are the national boards? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/4 "2010-11-18T17:29:19Z")
National Boards for teaching through NBPTS (an now administered by Pearson I believe) By this time tomorrow I may be Saint Cad, NBCT ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/5 "2010-11-20T01:20:08Z")
So, did you pass? Are you out celebrating? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/6 "2010-12-03T20:10:39Z")
Missed it by 10 points. One of my entries that was loved by everyone was killed by the scorer. Apparently developing vocabulary does not demonstrate subject knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/7 "2010-12-03T21:46:17Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > What are the national boards? I’m curious about that myself, assuming the OP is in the United States. I thought it’s the individual states that license just about every profession or occupation requiring a license. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/8 "2010-12-06T18:41:35Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I’m curious about that myself, assuming the OP is in the United States. I thought it’s the individual states that license just about every profession or occupation requiring a license. National Boards is certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and a teacher that passes is a National Board Certified Teacher and is entitled to the postnomial NBCT. States are free to interpret that certification as they see fit from accepting it in lieu of certification (if moving states) to stipends (although most of those are gone) to other considerations. In my state, all it does is adds 2 years to my credential and changes the name from professional teaching license to master teaching license. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/9 "2011-11-17T18:24:40Z")
Less than 24 hours to go before results are out. Last year I missed it by 10 points so I redid the two larger entries and just need an increase of 5/8 of a point (on a 4 point scale) across both of them to pass. One of them from last year had the comment “Teacher does not demonstrate math knowledge” which killed my score so this year I discussed Hamiltonian graphs. Is that worth 5/8 of a point in of itself not even counting the other entry? Fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/10 "2011-11-17T22:44:38Z")
Fingers crossed for you! Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/11 "2011-11-18T22:58:22Z")
Scores have been delayed 9 hours with no relief in sight. Fingers cramped from crossing. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/12 "2011-11-18T23:05:12Z")
Dammit! ☹ Hope you find out soon ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/13 "2011-11-19T00:02:13Z")
Aw, man! Quick, go into distraction mode! Any movies you’ve been wanting to watch? How about getting a full-body massage? Are you a runner? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/14 "2011-11-19T00:12:55Z")
DUDE! I am right there with you–I’m about to have a goddamn breakdown. I woke up at 12:07 am and tried to check. Then went back to bed and dreamt about getting my results, which included phrases like (and they were at least this complicated): > [@Dream National Boards](#): > > You referenced the student’s hard-shell Baptist parents. The hard-shell Baptist movement died out in the eighteenth century, and virtually no Baptists follow the doctrine of predestination. Please reconsider your assessment of the student’s background and > [@Dream National Boards](#): > > your suggestion of this particular drug in its strawberry-flavor formulation is inappropriate for the diagnosis of ADHD Forty pages of this nonsense, and I could read it all very clearly in my dreams (where I can never read things, so I was sure it wasn’t a dream), but I couldn’t find out anywhere WHETHER I’D BEEN CERTIFIED. I checked again at 5 am, and this time I pulled up some sample score sheets to convince my stupid brain that they wouldn’t be 40 pages of trivia but would rather be 1-2 pages of totally unhelpful advice like “Consider being more specific about parent involvement.” Then all day long I was spastically refreshing the website until it totally crashed around noon, because apparently their hosting service didn’t realize that all the candidates would be checking the website on the day that results were released. GAH! I’m ready to riot. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/15 "2011-11-19T03:12:22Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Scores have been delayed 9 hours with no relief in sight. Fingers cramped from crossing. My GF is waiting on hers as well. We’ll just have to check again tomorrow. She’s not happy with the delay. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/16 "2011-11-20T03:54:19Z")
UPDATE: No goddam update. I’m so hating on these people. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/17 "2011-11-20T12:42:17Z")
Update: WOOT! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/18 "2011-11-20T12:54:03Z")
Congrats! My GF just checked hers as well: Woot! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/19 "2011-11-20T13:13:23Z")
Congrats to her as well! ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043/20 "2011-11-20T15:05:08Z")
Woot!! I remember taking NCLEX through Pearson and the immense stress of waiting for results. Go breathe a sigh of relief! I think I cried when I got my “here ya go, you’re just smart enough not to kill anyone” moment - it was an explosion of three years of work. And then I celebrated!! Good for you! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-pass-my-national-boards/561043.md?page=2)