lperry

It is now $3200/ 12 weeks.

I am late to this thread, but wanted to let you all know that Capella has significantly increased their tuition. It is now $3200/12 weeks. That makes it quite a bit more expensive, in my opinion. Also, their credit hour calculations are very confusing, as they keep track in quarter hours instead of semester hours. They require 180 quarter hours, and their 8 core nursing classes = only 48 quarter hours. Your ADN, is worth roughly 90 quarter hours. This means you will have to get another 50 quarter hours, or 9 classes more towards your BSN. That is alot, and according to their website, only 10% of students complete the program in <9 months. With that in mind, this program is no longer a way to save $.

i tried the PVT with the wrong year of expiration. I got the "your results are on hold" message. I called Pearson Vue and they assured me there was no problem, I just had to wait the 48 hours. Well, I finished my test,75 questions in about 55 minutes. At 48 hours after when I finished, my results were not posted. I called Pearson Vue again. I was told the results are posted 48 hours after the six hour mark of when the test could have finished, not when I finished. Fine. Around hour 50, I checked again, and PASSED. Wow, that felt so great. I thought the Kaplan lectures were great, and I used the Kaplan and UWorld questions. The UWorld questions were better because the explanations were excellent, with great diagrams. The diagrams and explanations were very important to me, because I attended Excelsior college, so did not see those things in person, chest tubes, etc. Hope everyone else here has a good result!

Finally found out today that I passed on the quick results link (which were posted about 49 hours after I finished the test). Whew! 75 questions, a ton of SATA, I did feel like the test was easy. I did Kaplan and UWorld. I really liked the Kaplan lectures, but thought the UWorld questions- really the explanations were superior to Kaplan. UWorld had great pictures and diagrams as well, which was helpful to me, because I went to Excelsior so didn't see that stuff in person. Whew! That was a long haul and it feels great. BTW, I did the PVT with a wrong year of expiration, and I got a message that my results were on hold. That was about 24 hours after finishing my test. Good luck everyone!

what does it mean when I did the trick (wrong exp date on my cc) and it says my results are on hold? trying to remain calm.

I took my nclex today and it stopped at 75. I had a ton of SATA, but I felt pretty good about it. I don't feel like I did so badly that I failed. But now, I am getting nervous! I have read that the PV trick no longer works....