Published Jul 24, 2018
NurseJamillah, MSN, NP
82 Posts
Just wanted to weigh-in and add my experience to group of people saying that the PVT works!
I wrote NCLEX on 7/21 and was sure I failed. I did very well on my predictors (UWorld, ATI) and found NCLEX to be very difficult. I felt very prepared walking into the testing center. I think that maybe I just got enough of the difficult questions correct to still pass. Different people get different combination of difficulty questions based on the level of questions you get correct!
I left extremely discouraged, but I waited an hour and did the PVT trick. I got the "good pop up". You have to actually enter AND submit cc info (not your real info so you don't get charged). I used a cancelled and expired card and I changed the exp date.
I have friends that tried but never hit submit because they were afraid their card would be charged. Some of them thought that because it let them enter their card info, that was the "bad popup". I think that's where the mixed reviews come from!
I repeated the PVT a few times over the next day or so and seeing the "good pop up" gave me peace of mind for a few hours while I waited for my quick results to be available in the system. The PVT was the only thing keeping me sane!