Pearson Vue Trick did NOT work for me and I PASSED!

Nursing Students NCLEX Nursing Q/A

I just wanted to make a post in hopes that this will come up for potential nurses googling about the Pearson Vue Trick (PVT)

I took my NCLEX in January of 2017, and decided to try the PVT so many people swear by. I did NOT get the good pop up, cried cause well obviously it didn't work so figured I had failed. Nope! I passed.

The Pearson Vue Trick does NOT always work. Don't let it trick you!

This is was my second time taking the NCLEX, I failed the first one. It happens! I just picked myself up and studied some more. Passed it the second time with minimum questions. There is so much online help out there! So good luck to everyone!

Hi Guys! I took mine last March 3, got the bad pop. I'll update you guys if I receive my results ? Still hoping for the best though! 

GFaith said:
Hi Guys! I took mine last March 3, got the bad pop. I'll update you guys if I receive my results ? Still hoping for the best though! í ½

Did you pay $200?

Hi I know I may not get a response but I'm hoping someone can give me a little more insight. It's good to know that the trick does not always work. I've tried the trick and based on the rules of the trick it's coming up as not passing. Is there any other way to find out without having to wait 6 weeks?

If your state is part of the quick results, you can see your results in 2 days :) you just have to pay the fee.

pmabraham said:
I had the same problem where the trick didn't work though I did pass.

Just wanted to Thank you for suggesting u world and Happy NCLEX a couple months ago

I passed

salmon12 said:
So I just wanted to post my experience as I am wondering if others have had it charge them and got the "bad pop up" I am wondering if i did it too early and actually did pass... I waited about 6 hours after my exam. Finished at 6pm and then checked at midnight and had it charge me. Is there any chance it is a false negative?!? Please help!

*I should also mention that I am in Canada and I do not have the option of quick result here, sadly.

Thanks!

I just answered you on another thread, but in case you see this first, it is very unlikely you passed. You can hope, but honestly it's a pretty rare thing to be charged $200 and find out later you passed.

The person who posted this thread, as well as others who said "it did not work for me" did not actually DO the PVT. They stopped one or two steps SHORT of doing it correctly, so no, they did not know if it did or didn't work.

You, unfortunately, DID do it all the way through but the risk you take is having it take your money---and it did. Like I said, not a good chance at all that you passed, but it HAS happened.

I guess I can hope for you that you passed and are only out a couple hundred bucks, but if you did fail, you'd need that new registration anyway.

I took my nclex-pn April 10th did the pvt 48hrs post exam and also did not get the good pop up. Just like you I did it the same way my classmates did; while some of them got the good pop up i kept getting the bad one. A week later I got a letter via mail that I passed it!

ap12il said:
I took my nclex-pn April 10th did the pvt 48hrs post exam and also did not get the good pop up. Just like you I did it the same way my classmates did; while some of them got the good pop up i kept getting the bad one. A week later I got a letter via mail that I passed it!

When you say you did not get the good pop up, are you saying that you paid $200? If you did not submit payment you did not do it correctly. There is no pop up to get if you do not submit the payment all the way through to the end!

It's not like there is a variety of popups LOL, you either offered the payment and you can't pay because you passed or you pay. No pop up message at all? Then you did not play the game.

I did all the steps yesterday (they may have changed the 'trick', but the directions listed says that you get a pop up BEFORE entering billing info. This was the way it was in 2012 when my husband did the "trick" and was not allowed to register.) and was discouraged as I was directed to the billing page. Well, at 3 am I was listed as current and active on my BON website! WHOOO HOOO! I went on to view my unofficial results and again do the trick.... I was again taken to the page to enter billing/credit card info in. Doesn't matter now, today is a lot better than yesterday!

Hi! I just took my test 6-7-17

shut off at 90 questions

tried the PVT trick with an expired credit card.

Got the card declined, contact bank or use another card.

So according to the trick I failed?

(Tried the trick 48hrs post test)

(In ca. Waiting for results)

probably theyre following the old pvt trick because thats how the old one work before entering card details you get a pop up. you need to clarify thats not how pvt work now they need to enter their card info and do submit then do submit again. thats where the pop up going to take place.

emtp_123 said:
I did all the steps yesterday (they may have changed the 'trick', but the directions listed says that you get a pop up BEFORE entering billing info. This was the way it was in 2012 when my husband did the "trick" and was not allowed to register.) and was discouraged as I was directed to the billing page. Well, at 3 am I was listed as current and active on my BON website! WHOOO HOOO! I went on to view my unofficial results and again do the trick.... I was again taken to the page to enter billing/credit card info in. Doesn't matter now, today is a lot better than yesterday!

No. Pearson VUE changed its software for its registration program in the summer of 2014. The way it was prior to that changed entirely.

Prior to August 2014 if you were directed to a billing page where you could put in any credit card information that was the Bad Pop-Up. People who did not get directed to the credit card page and instead got a message telling them they could not register, that was the Good Pop Up. After August 2014 everyone, every single person attempting the PVT, gets directed to put in payment information. It is only once the correct payment information is submitted, once you have risked putting the funds through that you find out whether they will take the money or not.

Congratulations on passing.

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