There was a time when you could just about bet on the results of the PVT being as close to accurate as could be for an unofficial "glitch". It was a fortune-telling kink in the software that allowed someone to determine, based on a the pop up message they got after putting in their credit card info, whether they had passed or failed.
Over the last few months, increasing numbers of people are finding that they get a pop up that indicates their card was attempted to be charged, and this has always indicated a 'fail'. Whether you use incorrect dates is IRRELEVANT; the software program is designed to attempt to charge your card because you AUTHORIZED it. There is a notification telling you it's a non-refundable charge prior to you submitting payment....and by golly, they are going to try.
If you put in invalid info, and get a message telling you that you should contact your bank, etc etc, it MIGHT mean you failed (because a second registration was now needed for another exam). It ALSO might mean you passed, but there you were, offering the money anyway.
If you put in valid info and it charges you, it won't matter if you passed, the money is completely non-refundable.
If you are unable to register again, no charge attempt is made, it's certainly a good indication of "pass". BUT....here's where it gets icky.....people seem absolutely unable to control themselves, and insist on doing the PVT over--and over--and over again.
What's wrong with that? Well, with increasing frequency, subsequent submissions of card info result in a charge attempt...so once again, you have NO CLUE as to whether you passed or failed. Maybe you passed on the first scoring....failed on the QA review? Maybe. Maybe you passed the review, but now you are flipping out over the newly-found "I FAILED" possibility. Seriously, is this at all worth the back-and-forth cluelessness that only results in MORE anxiety?
I can't see it, sorry, no way---no how.
PLEASE don't post "hey it works!" because if you got a message that matched your results, at this point I'd go with 'coincidence'. Enough people have put in valid info and gotten charged for tests they don't need to make me shake my head. But hey, if you want to keep donating your hard-earned money to Pearson Vue, well they sure are going to be happy you--and others like you--did!
If you INSIST on doing the PVT in spite of all this, I'll leave you with this one nugget of reality, and you can go with it where you want: WAIT AT LEAST 24 hours ANYWAY, as you really do need to wait until the QA review is done (two sets of scores/reviews to your exam are done, sometime over a 24 hour period). If you can't stop yourself from "just seeing what happens", please remember this message if you find that your Happy Dance because you passed turns into an UNhappy cry because you didn't. Or, conversely, you are a mess because you failed....and it turns out you passed.
Some believe they are very smart in using a credit card with invalid info. It's true that this way you don't risk a $200 charge, but honestly....WHAT is the point when it tells you....nothing?
Please, people....you are supposed to be rational human beings ready to be granted a professional nursing license....don't lose your minds now, okay? ?
Just thought for five more seconds about this and realized what a pickle I'll be in if I get a job with my IPN and then fail the exam. Oops! Bye job! I am almost afraid to say this out loud (eek, my superstitious grandmother would whack me over the head) but I am somewhat confident about passing. I had a 4.0 in school, got As on all the tests, got a 99% likelihood of first-attempt passing on the ATI predictor, and in the qbanks I've been madly using I have an average of 75%-80% correct. But from all accounts you can't COUNT on these things to predict how the NCLEX will be and I want to KNOW. ?
Meanwhile... going to go clean the house to keep myself from checking and rechecking all my email folders for the ATT. ?
If all you say is true, I think you'll do great! Good luck to you, and keep us updated!
Agree 100%. Took my boards on Monday June 8th and tried the trick because an instructor at my school said it was an unofficial way to find out if we passed or failed. I wish she never would have mentioned it because it has stressed me out so much. I was able to enter my cc info and was afraid to submit and lose 200 dollars. My advice to others: WAIT IT OUT!
Thank you so much for posting this! I just wish I had seen it before I spent the $200 re-registering. I don't feel at all like I passed and after that I started sobbing uncontrollably. I should have stuck to my guns and not given in to the PVT trick. I took my exam yesterday (June 8, 2015) and have been checking the Virginia BON religiously all day. It hasn't even been 24 hours and I'm freaking out. I only had 75 questions and that's where a lot of my anxiety has come from I think. Does anyone know if Virginia has their results up on the BON website within that 48 hour window? They don't do the unofficial results either and I might lose my mind.
Don't know what Virginia does, but if they don't post within that 48 hour window, you can always just pay the eight bucks for Quick Results and find out for certain.
At this point, all you know is you might have passed, you might have failed
Thank you so much for posting this! I just wish I had seen it before I spent the $200 re-registering. I don't feel at all like I passed and after that I started sobbing uncontrollably. I should have stuck to my guns and not given in to the PVT trick. I took my exam yesterday (June 8, 2015) and have been checking the Virginia BON religiously all day. It hasn't even been 24 hours and I'm freaking out. I only had 75 questions and that's where a lot of my anxiety has come from I think. Does anyone know if Virginia has their results up on the BON website within that 48 hour window? They don't do the unofficial results either and I might lose my mind.
(((Hugs)))
If it turns out you passed, if you don't mind helping us out, share your story as often as you can. No one wants to believe that it's possible the trick doesn't work, and I hate seeing the few who do get charged when they did, in fact, pass. I'm crossing everything for you! Good luck!!!
I'm always hesitant to post an opinion on whether someone likely passed or likely failed when the circumstances are like they are above (PVT issue). It does seem like the majority of the time if someone does the PVT just ONCE, and it goes through as a charge, it is indeed a failed exam. But since there HAVE been the rare exceptions, I just can't say "it's a fail"! It probably is....but...as we've already seen....it might not be. Certainly no one is happy to be That Guy who paid $200 straight out of the chute and ultimately passed (although the pass result is a really happy moment!!).
It seems that the charges (or attempted charges) result MOST of the time from people putting their card info in multiple times, and ESPECIALLY if they put them in early (before that magical/mystical 24 hour max time-frame has elapsed). In those cases, it's No Holds Barred: you might just convince the program to take your money
You put the wrong expiration date of card... Once u confirm all the info ...it'll either say that its an invalid card (fail) or that you currently can't register pop up (pass) my friend & I tried. ..I passed she failed & it worked just fine.
You put the wrong expiration date of card... Once u confirm all the info ...it'll either say that its an invalid card (fail) or that you currently can't register pop up (pass) my friend & I tried. ..I passed she failed & it worked just fine.
This statement is too broad to be correct. At this point, many people have reported putting in card information and gotten a "bad" pop up (message about invalid card) when they actually PASSED. NOT failed. PASSED. But because the person doing the PVT is confirming that the information they are submitting is valid (and it is not) it attempts to charge the card anyway. REGARDLESS of pass/fail status of exam.
You were lucky, that's great....others, not so much. If you had been in their shoes, you'd be here saying it DIDN'T work. Luckily you didn't go through the torture they did, believing they had failed and instead found out later they had passed.
RNsRWe, do you ever feel like you are trying to dig a hole in the sand with a kid's toy shovel while other people just keep dumping buckets sand back over you?
RNsRWe, do you ever feel like you are trying to dig a hole in the sand with a kid's toy shovel while other people just keep dumping buckets sand back over you?
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If all you say is true, I think you'll do great! Good luck to you, and keep us updated!