NCLEX-RN syllabus
Computer-adaptive licensure exam for registered nurses: 85 to 150 items in five hours, including three case studies. The result is pass or fail. This site's practice form is fixed and does not adapt.
NCLEX-RN
85 to 150 items. This practice form uses 85, the minimum. · 5 hours
A minimum-length exam is 52 Client Needs items, 18 case-study items, and 15 unscored pretest items. This practice form has 85 items and scores all of them. Select-all and highlight items use plus/minus scoring. There is no penalty on a one-best-answer item beyond a score of zero.
- Multiple choice, one best answer
- Select all that apply (plus/minus scoring)
- Ordered response
- Highlight text
- Numeric calculation
- Three clinical-judgment case studies of six items