Since for q > 1, the q-Bernstein polynomials Bn,q(f ; .) are not positive linear operators on C[0, 1], their convergence properties are not similar to those in the case 0 < q ≤ 1. It has been known that, in general, Bn,q n (f ; .) does not approximate f ∈ C[0, 1] if qn → 1 + , n → ∞, unlike in the case qn → 1 − . In this paper, it is shown that if 0 ≤ qn − 1 = o(n −1 3 −n ), n → ∞, then for any f ∈ C[0, 1], we have: Bn,q n (f ; x) → f (x) as n → ∞, uniformly on [0,1].