Pearson Vue Trick- Took my 200 :(

[JessicaLKat]

I have read many threads about the PVT trick. Just took my NCLEX for the second time....got all 265 questions. Did the PVT trick about 1-2 hours after the test because I was too anxious (I know people say wait 24 hrs but I didn't). It ended up taking me to the receipt screen showing me that I had paid for another registration. I did this trick the first time I took the test and same thing happened...and I had failed. I find out tomorrow at about 5 pm....I feel discouraged. I know I'm not going to quit but I'm so heartbroken. I am a straight A student and it was hard enough seeing "FAIL" the first time. The crappy thing is I felt pretty good about the test the second time.

Now I am not not sure where to even begin. I did Kaplan, NCLEX 10,000 and the whole Saunders book. I'm afraid of not passing a third time (how many times can I take it anyway? I'm in Colorado). Any suggestions or positive words would help

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the NCLEX forum.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

There are no suggestions for you at this point. You jumped the gun very badly by offering Pearson Vue $200 only an hour or so after your test was concluded. Typically, when you are able to pay for another exam it means you failed the one you took. Sometimes, though (and ESPECIALLY when one has all 265 questions, which makes what you did an especially bad idea), the first scoring of the exam does not match the SECOND scoring of the exam (done at some point during the 24 hours that follow the test) and you get a different result than expected.

265 questions puts you on the edge of passing and failing throughout the test, right up until the end. In order to pass with that number of questions, your exam would need to prove that you were minimally competent in all areas of testing (not having to meet the 95% CI, but still having a "final ability estimate" of competence).

Because the exam's determination of pass/fail is different with 265 questions than any number shy of that (where the exam stops itself before the max is reached) the incidence of having a "good pop up" shortly after the exam become a "fail" later and vice versa is much higher than with any other scenario.

If your State participates in Quick Results, pay the eight bucks 48 hours from the time you completed the exam and you'll know for sure if you passed or failed. ANYTHING ELSE is pure guesswork.

[scaredsilly, BSN, RN]

Not completely sure, but I think that 3 is the limit in Colorado

[supermarijuanaman]

pvt has never worked for someone after they take your $200. sorry, good luck next time

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

pvt has never worked for someone after they take your $200. sorry, good luck next time

Untrue. Have seen people over the last year (mostly the last six months) who have spent $200 and found out they passed later. Typically they did exactly what the OP did, and paid $ before waiting for the QA review to be completed during the first 24 hours following the test.