Hello at 8am I took my test and I got really anxious so I did the pearsonvue trick at 1:30pm.
i went in and proceeding to reregister. I put in all my cards information with the wrong expiration and clicked submit both times. I got the message in red saying a recent test was scheduled and I could not register at this time.
My my friend did the same and it allowed her to register and get a receipt when she failed in May so I am praying it's right but I will have official result on Wednesday thru quick results!!!
Oh my goodness. Yall had two day exams? Where are you from? That was definately a long wait and here I was thinking two weeks to get my license was long. One lady was telling me about when it used to be pen and paper and a random skill...
Oh my goodness. Yall had two day exams? Where are you from? That was definately a long wait and here I was thinking two weeks to get my license was long. One lady was telling me about when it used to be pen and paper and a random skill...
I went to college in Massachusetts and took boards in Arizona. This is what everyone in the U.S. did. Pencil and paper in a big room with hundreds of new grads. Exam given twice a year. We worked as GNs (graduate nurses) pending our results. The day they came you either started writing "RN" on all your charting...or NA (nursing aide), if the hospital would keep you on in that capacity. You could take boards again in January.
Somehow we survived without the drugs. However, we were not brought up in an immediate-gratification world where "freaking out" garnered us as much attention as we craved. We just -- went about our lives, working, shopping, cleaning, going out, and whatevs until the results came. Imagine that.
I took my boards over two full days in July and got my results in October. And did not die. I truly do not get why living your life for three days is so much sacrifice to ask of a college-educated nascent professional.
I agree with this. Not sure why someone is in such a rush to find out ASAP or I'll die!
Maybe part of the nursing history folks learn in school should be about how nursing school used to be and how you took the test for your license.
It used to be a written test where you wrote out answers over two days. I read Echo Heron's first book about nursing school and testing the summer before I started school. Her experience was grueling compared to nowadays. (Just pulled the book out to re-read that section on her test and paraphrasing here). In California, you had to go to Sacramento to test. A week before the state nursing boards Echo and a friend checked into a hotel and dedicated one day and night to each of the five sections of the test. Psychiatric nursing; pediatrics; medical; surgical; obstetrics. On the day of the test, which was at the convention center, there were thousands of people sitting at long tables. Paper and two standard number two pencils; no bathroom privileges unless accompanies by a proctor, no communication was to go on between any of the test takers after the tests had been handed out; and when finished they had to leave by the nearest exit and not reenter the room until it was time to take the next test. This was over two days.
The graduate students were allowed to work as unlicensed graduate nurses (UGN) but their salary was puny.
I dunno - if you look at it from a nursing history perspective, this clamor to do the PV TRICK is hard to understand for we older nurses. And I didn't have to do what Echo or GreenTea had to do. Although I did have to wait awhile to find out if I passed. It was in an envelope that came in the mail.
If I had stayed in Massachusetts, I would've joined the cast of thousands taking the exam in Boston or Springfield. In Arizona, there was only one testing station in the entire state, and we had new grads living in motorhomes in the parking lot having driven hundreds of miles to Phoenix to stay for those two days.
In every state, the experience was identical to what Echo described. Long tables, proctors prowling, no trips to the bathroom without an escort, and no reentering the room once you left otherwise.
My new colleagues in Arizona warned me to bring something to warm to wear, which I thought was ridiculous because the temps were 110° outside. However, the arena was cold as ice with the air-conditioning, so I was glad I listened to them. There would have been no air conditioning in Boston, LOL.
When did they start the computer testing by appointment, anyway? It wasn't that terribly long ago.
That is amazing. I think my instructors said it used to be that way for them. I wonder if pen and paper or computer testing affects pass rates as well.
PVT has done some false passes. RNsRWe posted recently that someone accepted a job offer based on PVT and then found out she failed. The biggest issue with PVT is the emotional turmoil that goes with it. Imagine walking around for 2 days thinking you failed only to find out you passed and cried for no reason. Or even worse, telling everyone you passed based on PVT only to find out later that you failed. That is the reason that some of us try to discourage doing the trick. The accuracy of the old trick was around 98%, and the accuracy of the new one after 24 hours was once quite high as well, but not anymore!
Risking $200 is not a great idea, but it's your money, so risk at will! Emotionally though-well that's a different story and I wouldn't risk that.
I see that you voted in this poll that your experience using the PVT was negative and it was inaccurate for you.
Did you take the NCLEX after the Pearson site was changed in August of 2014?
Also, can you elaborate on how your personal experience with the PVT was inaccurate when you used it? What incorrect results did it give you?
Oh my goodness. Yall had two day exams? Where are you from? That was definately a long wait and here I was thinking two weeks to get my license was long. One lady was telling me about when it used to be pen and paper and a random skill...
Took it in Chicago in 1979. It was given twice a year, may also have been given in Springfield, don't remember.
We took them on one level of the McCormack Place parking garage. Rows and rows of tables and uncomfortable folding chairs.
Testing started promptly at 9am. If you were late, too bad. Not even a note from Mommy and a tearful melt down could change it.
You were allowed one piece of scratch paper and two pencils. The paper had to be turned in at the end of the day. No snacks or drinks. Cell phones didn't exist then, so that wasn't an issue. Oh, and to make things really interesting, the parking garage had these industrial sized fans in the walls, set on one speed-jet engine.
Proctors prowled the aisles ceaselessly. When they did sit, one of them sat right in front of me *sigh*. Any thought that you were cheating, you were gone. I stared at the top of that table for two days, never made eye contact with anyone. If you went to the bathroom, everyone knew, because you were accompanied by a Proctor. Rumor was you had to keep the stall door open, too. I made sure I went before the test started.
Two days of testing. Five books-Medical, Surgical, Peds, OB and Psych. Had to pass all five books; leaving a few questions unanswered didn't count against you, but you were encouraged to answer all of them. I stayed two nights at a nearby hotel. Didn't bring anything to study, figured if I didn't know it by then cramming wasn't going to help.
I had already been hired, and my designation was "RNLP"; RN License Pending. Results came by snail mail, and did indeed take up to two months to arrive.
Does this make it a little clearer why the older nurses in AN really don't have patience when you flail about having to wait 48 whole hours to get your results, after only having to answer a certain percentage of questions while sitting at a computer station? And why you get side eye when you admit to resorting to fraud to get an early answer that may or may not be reliable?
Yes looking at it from that point thank goodness it's changed because I wouldn't be able to afford to get a hotel to test and them walking around would make me more nervous. I would also think tedting on five nursing subjects would have made you have to be more informed then today. I am glad to be done though... Yes it is drastic but I was such a wreck. I worked two full time jobs and a prn thru nursing school, got divorced, moved twice, lost my dog, and lost a lot thru nursing school. I am just glad to be at this point. Now I just need to figure out where to apply? Where could I be the best nurse? So thankful
If I had stayed in Massachusetts, I would've joined the cast of thousands taking the exam in Boston or Springfield. In Arizona, there was only one testing station in the entire state, and we had new grads living in motorhomes in the parking lot having driven hundreds of miles to Phoenix to stay for those two days.
In every state, the experience was identical to what Echo described. Long tables, proctors prowling, no trips to the bathroom without an escort, and no reentering the room once you left otherwise.
My new colleagues in Arizona warned me to bring something to warm to wear, which I thought was ridiculous because the temps were 110° outside. However, the arena was cold as ice with the air-conditioning, so I was glad I listened to them. There would have been no air conditioning in Boston, LOL.
When did they start the computer testing by appointment, anyway? It wasn't that terribly long ago.
I took boards in 2001. It was on the computer by then but from what my instructors told us it was still fairly new(?). I'm unsure as to the accuracy of that comment. I waited somewhere between 2-3 weeks to get my official results via snail mail as they were unavailable online. I knew I'd passed within a week as my state has a great BON website and my license number popped up about a week after I sat for boards.
The instant gratification, medications, temper tantrums and meltdown......I don't get it. I just, I mean, no.
Ok I took my test 8am yesterday. Did the trick last night after putting the wrong exp. date for the CC and clicking submit I got the good pop up. Settled me a bit since after 3hrs and 265 questions I was convinced I failed. My friend who also tested yesterday, woke me up way to early this morning telling me I needed to do the trick again after 24 hrs. I remember reading that some states issue your license and post it online within 24 hrs. I decided just to go to New Jersey's license verification site. To my enjoyment My license was issued today with an expiration date of 2017. The quick results page on PeaseonVue is still showing results not available. Good Luck.
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Oh my goodness. Yall had two day exams? Where are you from? That was definately a long wait and here I was thinking two weeks to get my license was long. One lady was telling me about when it used to be pen and paper and a random skill...