Pearsonvue trick- my experience

[GRN005]

Wanted to fill people in that have questions about checking the site before they get their unofficial results. Just sharing my experience -it is not a right or wrong opinion. After I took the boards they had just worked on the Pearson site so the "old trick" was gone.. I was brought to the CC page. After I put my info in , then I got the good pop up (little red triangle-already taken this exam etc.) I would recommend using a card that has no available credit . I did that in case I had to pay again. I would not have been able to at that time. That was 9/10/2014. Not sure if they changed anything again since then.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

With increasing frequency, Pearson Vue is 'testing' credit cards submitted for validity. If that happens when playing with the PVT, the person doing it will get a "card declined, contact your bank" kind of message; they will not know if they got the message because they failed (and did indeed need another registration) or passed (and they had the lovely misfortune of having a charge attempted anyway).

So while using an invalid card would prevent you from having an unwanted charge, it doesn't tell you anything either.

More often than not, though, people who pass don't have the charge attempt made, they get "the good pop up" and believe that they have made it through with a pass. Except when they do it too early (prior to a 24 hour wait for both sets of scores to finalize) and then they find they failed EVEN THOUGH they got "the good pop up".

Caveat Emptor, Baby.