My NCLEX GOOD POP-UP

ClayH · Jan 9, 2015

Congrats! I passed in 75 last week and as soon as I got downstairs into my truck I tried the trick and got the good pop up. Close to 20 friends have graduated in the last year and it has worked them too. 2 of them ended up not passing and it let them reschedule the exam instead of the pop up

CriticalCareRN1 · Jan 9, 2015

@ClayH Thank you! I hope it's not deceiving. So those two didn't get the good pop up when they tried a couple hours after their exam before the official 48hrs?

CriticalCareRN1 · Jan 9, 2015

But could it be that they just really haven't received my exam yet. Because it is on the NCSBN website, that we are inquiring about our results. On the NCSBN website, it shows that my results have not been received. Just inquiring at all levels.

Breyson · Sep 9, 2015

Hi! I was just wondering if that pop up worked for you. I just took the Nclex and got the same thing. I really hope so because California doesn't do the 48 hr unofficial results and I don't want to wait 4-6 weeks.

Thanks!

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Sep 9, 2015

Um, it's not like you have any choice. The PVT is anecdotal, at best. You have no option but to suck it up and wait in California!!

Hi! I was just wondering if that pop up worked for you. I just took the Nclex and got the same thing. I really hope so because California doesn't do the 48 hr unofficial results and I don't want to wait 4-6 weeks.
Thanks!

Breyson · Sep 9, 2015

Um, it's not like you have any choice. The PVT is anecdotal, at best. You have no option but to suck it up and wait in California!!

Wow, who peed in your pool? Look I want to know because if I failed then I can spend that 4-6 weeks studying with Hurst or Kaplan instead of waiting and wondering if I'm going to have to spend $600.00 in prep and registration costs. Take my advice, if the best response you can come up with to someone asking a simple question is "suck it up" then it's best not to respond at all.

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 9, 2015

Wow, who peed in your pool? Look I want to know because if I failed then I can spend that 4-6 weeks studying with Hurst or Kaplan instead of waiting and wondering if I'm going to have to spend $600.00 in prep and registration costs. Take my advice, if the best response you can come up with to someone asking a simple question is "suck it up" then it's best not to respond at all.

Well if you live in CA, they don't participate in quick results. So you have to wait as long as it takes until your results are posted. If that is 6-8 weeks, then you have to be patient & wait.

The PVT is far from accurate & will not provide you with the answers you are looking for. Sorry,

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Sep 9, 2015

My goodness. I am so glad I am done so far. I took the exam, 4hrs ago. I tried the Pearson Vue Trick, and yes, you have to put in your credit card information. A really smart poster posted in another post, that if you fudge your expiration date, you won't chance losing your money if you didn't pass. So I did that, having everything else the same, and I got the good pop up 75 questions later.

And another smart poster told us about how she did that but got charged the fee anyway. A valid credit card account can be charged as long as you authorize it....expiration date wrong irrelevant.

The PVT requiring one to submit financial info is really old news at this point; some swear by the PVT because, anecdotally, THEY had the result match their Magic 8 Ball PVT guesstimate. Others not so thrilled, as they were able to pay for another exam they did not need because it turns out they passed (nonrefundable, plus freaking out over a failure that didn't happen). Still others celebrating their "good pop up"....great relief....and turns out they failed. Not a pretty sight.

So, in a nutshell, if you got 75 questions, in all likelihood you passed. NOT because of the PVT guessing game, but because MOST people who are US educated pass on their first attempts. Odds are with you. And the minimum number of questions means you either did really well---and could demonstrate competency quickly---or you did very poorly---and could demonstrate incompetency quickly.

Given the kind of student you were in school, your school's NCLEX passing rate, and how you prepared for the exam....which scenario is more likely?

Put aside your credit cards, people, unless you really ARE prepared to blow $200 for no good reason. If you get a 'good pop up' you won't REALLY know anything anymore than if you didn't do the game at all, anyway. And a 'bad' pop up is either a receipt for payment or a card declined message, neither of which is going to make you feel very good....and might STILL be wrong. I wouldn't want to be studying for several more weeks for no reason....food for thought.

Good luck!

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Sep 9, 2015

What I posted is fact. In California, you have NO option except to wait it out. Back away from the ledge and calm down a bit!

Wow, who peed in your pool? Look I want to know because if I failed then I can spend that 4-6 weeks studying with Hurst or Kaplan instead of waiting and wondering if I'm going to have to spend $600.00 in prep and registration costs. Take my advice, if the best response you can come up with to someone asking a simple question is "suck it up" then it's best not to respond at all.

Breyson · Sep 10, 2015

What I posted is fact. In California, you have NO option except to wait it out. Back away from the ledge and calm down a bit!

Um...no need to talk me down; I'm not the one ending all of my posts with exclamation points. I'm very much aware that I'd have to wait for the official results but that wasn't what I was wondering about. What I wanted to know was if the PVT worked or if it was just a story that keeps getting passed around but doesn't really work. If it's a sure thing then great, I don't have to spend time and money preparing to take the nclex again. If the "good pop-up" doesn't really mean anything then I know that I should budget to retest.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Sep 10, 2015

Um...no need to talk me down; I'm not the one ending all of my posts with exclamation points. I'm very much aware that I'd have to wait for the official results but that wasn't what I was wondering about. What I wanted to know was if the PVT worked or if it was just a story that keeps getting passed around but doesn't really work. If it's a sure thing then great, I don't have to spend time and money preparing to take the nclex again. If the "good pop-up" doesn't really mean anything then I know that I should budget to retest.

I'll weigh in on this, since I've followed PVT for far too long to admit to.....it is a guessing game. *MOST* of the time the 'trick' tells you the outcome that matches your actual outcome. SOME of the time it does not. It is anything BUT a "sure thing". Anyone who tells you it is is simply being foolish; as the saying goes, 'the plural of anecdote is not data'. Think EBT: would you rely on what "lots of people" say in a chat room, or would you want research to support the position? PVT=lots of anecdotal evidence, nothing real.

Some people report seeing the 'good pop up' and having their anxiety relieved a bit, although not a LOT as (let's face it) it has been wrong. Same with people getting worked up over failing, having to study again...and then they passed. Angst for NOTHING.

I guess it's up to you whether to do it or not. Did you like playing with a Magic 8 Ball when you were a kid? You know, asking it if someone cute thought you were cute, and you flipped the ball over to read "it may be so". Ok. Maybe it WAS so. Maybe not. Game.

In this case, it's a game with $200 on the line (if you don't use a valid credit card number, it's going to be declined as invalid). Changing the expiration date does not guarantee the card won't be charged. Might be...might not be. Helluva expensive gamble!

Hang in there and breathe. If you took the NCLEX-RN, the BreEZe website posts a whole lot faster than the CA BoN.