PearsonVue Trick is still alive and well! (May 2017)

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Hi guys! I wanted to talk about my NCLEX/PVT story because I couldn't find any recent information on this stuff for my class (and all the other May '17 grads), and I was searching incessantly for this info! Taking the NCLEX soon? Read on!

*Don't know what the Pearson Vue Trick is? There are SO many articles both on this site and elsewhere on the internet. Research away! basically it's just a cheat way to trick PearsonVue into giving you your exam results before they're posted.*

My NCLEX and the PVT:

I sat for my exam at 10:30 am on Friday, May 26, 2017. My test shut off at 75 questions and I took about an hour and a half to finish. I got the email from Pearson that my exam had finished at noon that day. I decided to try the PVT in line at Chipotle, knowing that if I had gotten the "good" popup that I'd take it with a grain of salt because I'd heard it isn't totally reliable until 24 hours after you get that email. I got the good pop up and felt some sense of relief, but that didn't stop me from checking at least 10 more times that day and night! Everyone that says this trick works says they are skeptical until they get their official results, and it's completely true... I didn't want to think that I'd passed until I saw the word "PASS" in my exam results. The 24 hour mark came and I was still getting the good pop up, so I decided to stop obsessing and just try to wait patiently for my quick results to be ready the next morning. Sure enough, I paid for my quick results exactly 48 hours after the start of my exam, and I PASSED! I am now a registered nurse!

The PVT still works as of May 2017! Just make sure you carefully research the trick and how to correctly do it so that you aren't charged the NONREFUNDABLE $200 fee if, by chance, the system lets you re-register.

Here's some info about my NCLEX studying, for anyone that's interested:

I graduated from RN school on May 11. I got my ATT exactly a week later (my school was super good about submitting our info to the BON), and I scheduled my exam for 8 days after that (which brings me to May 26). I know they recommend waiting 6-8 weeks after graduation, but tbh I had no interest in taking a review course like Kaplan or Hurst--I just spent the last 2 years studying and taking HESI's... the information was already there! HOWEVER, I did use UWorld, and I HIGHLY recommend anyone taking their NCLEX-RN purchase at least the basic 30 day subscription. The questions are on par with what you'll see on the exam, and the rationales are PHENOMENAL!! I believe I would not have passed without it. For reference for those using UWorld, I took the 2 practice tests (exam 1--72%/93rd percentile/"very high" chance of passing; exam 2--68%/86th percentile/"very high" chance of passing), and I did 1,575 questions (averaging 63% overall) from the Qbank before I decided I was prepared. This was the ONLY resource I used to prepare and I only started doing the practice questions on May 9!!

Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them! I wish someone had posted this kind of information before I tested because I wanted to know as much as I could before I sat!

Good luck future nurses!!

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Hi guys! I wanted to talk about my NCLEX/PVT story because I couldn't find any recent information on this stuff for my class (and all the other May '17 grads), and I was searching incessantly for this info! Taking the NCLEX soon? Read on!

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Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them! I wish someone had posted this kind of information before I tested because I wanted to know as much as I could before I sat!

Good luck future nurses!!

I'm very surprised you couldn't find this information as there are literally hundreds of threads on this topic, and that's just on this one forum page on this one site alone. People have posted this information repeatedly (myself included), I'm sorry you somehow missed it! Everything you posted about and were looking for information on is already right here.

Congratulations :)

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I took my nclex-pn at 8AM on May 30, finished at about 10pm with 110 questions. I walked out of there feeling like I completely BOMBED the test! I did the PVT 4 times in the last 24 hours with the good pop up! Everyone is telling me I passed, but I totally agree on being skeptical about it! For the nclex-pn it takes anywhere from a week to six weeks to receive results. Should I celebrate? haha

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I took my nclex-pn at 8AM on May 30, finished at about 10pm with 110 questions. I walked out of there feeling like I completely BOMBED the test! I did the PVT 4 times in the last 24 hours with the good pop up! Everyone is telling me I passed, but I totally agree on being skeptical about it! For the nclex-pn it takes anywhere from a week to six weeks to receive results. Should I celebrate? haha

Hold off on celebrations until you get the official notice you passed. As long as everything else is in order once you've passed you should get a license number and THEN you can celebrate :)

Please stop doing the PVT. One of these times it might just take your money and it won't have anything to do with passing or failing it will have everything to do with abuse of the registration program. If it glitches (which is all the PVT is anyway) and charges you there is NO way for you to get that money back. And if you're using a card that can't be charged but you get a Declined message you will be right back on here freaking out because you will be worried you failed. It is so not worth all that! In all likelihood you passed.

Stop the PVT. Wait for official results and a license number and THEN celebrate your pants off :)

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I researched the PVT so much before my exam. I know everyone had posted a lot of information about it before, but I hadn't seen any information pertinent to the May 2017 graduates. The most recent info I could find was for the December '16 graduates. I wanted to know about my group :)

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I researched the PVT so much before my exam. I know everyone had posted a lot of information about it before, but I hadn't seen any information pertinent to the May 2017 graduates. The most recent info I could find was for the December '16 graduates. I wanted to know about my group :)

Ah. Well, it's a registration program that has been in use for many years; graduation month matters not. Program was upgraded several years ago that changed how the PVT worked (or didn't work lol).

Those graduating last month, the month before, the year before, two years before, and those who are testing this month, next month, the month after that , ALL are going to have the same PVT experience. Unless of course Pearson Vue decides to change their registration process yet again in which case all bets are off!

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