HiddenWhat the exam is
REx-PN is the entry-to-practice exam for practical nurses in British Columbia and Ontario. It is a variable-length computerised adaptive test.
Regulator: NCSBN for the BC College of Nurses and Midwives and the College of Nurses of Ontario. Country: Canada: British Columbia and Ontario.
Who takes it
Practical nurses who apply for registration with one of those two regulators.
Format, as the regulator publishes it
| Item | What the regulator says |
|---|---|
| Questions | Between 90 and 150 items, of which 30 are unscored pretest items [1] |
| Time | A 4-hour limit for the whole exam [2] |
Canadian practice uses its own drug names and units; NurseSim's questions use US names and units.
How NurseSim covers it
NurseSim has 100 questions written for this exam. That is fewer than 200, so the simulation also draws on the shared pool of 4,354 registered-nurse questions (4,454 in total) and offers 5 full-length mock exams that share no question.
Every answer comes with the reasoning behind it, and you can sit timed mock exams. Free: 5 questions a day, no card needed. REx-PN is the name of an examination of NCSBN for BCCNM (British Columbia) and CNO (Ontario), which is not affiliated with this program and has not endorsed it.