Practical nurse entry to practice, BC and Ontario
The REx-PN path, built to the 2027 Test Plan
Regulatory Exam, Practical Nurse (REx-PN)
The REx-PN follows the 2027 Test Plan of BCCNM, CNO and NCSBN: eight Client Needs categories and 155 activity statements, delivered adaptively in 90 to 150 items in four hours. This path follows the Test Plan category by category and statement by statement, and its mock follows the exam's length, timing and stopping rules.
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ExamDragon is independent exam preparation. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or reviewed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) or Pearson VUE. REx-PN and NCSBN are registered trademarks of NCSBN, used only to name the examination. Every item and guide here is our own, written from the published 2027 REx-PN Test Plan. We never accept, use or discuss items from a real REx-PN.
The exam in numbers
- items, adaptive
- 90 to 150items, adaptive
- including breaks
- 4 hoursincluding breaks
- Client Needs categories
- 8Client Needs categories
- activity statements
- 155activity statements
- unscored pretest items
- 30unscored pretest items
- formats: multiple choice, select all, calculation
- 3formats: multiple choice, select all, calculation
What the path holds now
Every item is original, written to the 2027 Test Plan, and checked in seeded audits against our authoring rubric, with every flagged item fixed and re-read.
- 300practice items
- Across the eight categories at the midpoint of each Test Plan range, in the exam's three formats, written for the practical nurse in British Columbia and Ontario, with a rationale for every item.
- 1adaptive mock
- A pool of 220 items, 90 to 150 items in four hours, the three stopping rules, and a report by category in the CPR's words.
- 8study guides
- One per Client Needs category, covering all 155 activity statements in our own words.
- 4study games
- Short rounds of the path's own questions and decisions, with your dragon beside you.
- Dailyplan and progress
- A short session each day, each category from learning to secure, and every past mock kept.
Everything in the REx-PN path
- TodayA short session for the day: some practice, one activity to study, the mock when you are ready.
- Practice300 original items in the exam's three formats, each answer explained.
- Mock examAn adaptive mock: 90 to 150 items in four hours, the 95% confidence rule, and a report in the CPR's words.
- LibraryThe Test Plan's 155 activity statements in our words, a study guide for each category.
- ProgressEach category from learning to secure, your past mocks and your readiness.
- PlayShort rounds of the path's own questions, with your dragon beside you.
Eight Client Needs categories
- MOCManagement of CareSafe and Effective Care Environment18 to 24%29 activities
- SIPCSafety and Infection Prevention and ControlSafe and Effective Care Environment10 to 16%13 activities
- HPMHealth Promotion and Maintenance6 to 12%19 activities
- PSYPsychosocial Integrity8 to 14%18 activities
- BCCBasic Care and ComfortPhysiological Integrity6 to 12%16 activities
- PPTPharmacological and Parenteral TherapiesPhysiological Integrity14 to 20%22 activities
- RRPReduction of Risk PotentialPhysiological Integrity8 to 14%19 activities
- PAPhysiological AdaptationPhysiological Integrity6 to 12%19 activities
Ranges as the 2027 Test Plan prints them; a single exam may differ by up to 3% in each category.
The exam, as rexpn.com describes it
- Who sits it
- Graduates applying to practise as a licensed practical nurse in British Columbia (BCCNM) or a registered practical nurse in Ontario (CNO). The exam measures entry-level practice in the first year.
- Delivery
- Computerized adaptive testing. Each answer updates the estimate of your ability, and each next item is one you have about a 50% chance of answering correctly, keeping the Test Plan's percentages.
- Length and time
- 90 to 150 items in four hours, including the tutorial, the sample items and every break. Breaks are optional; the clock keeps running.
- Pretest items
- 30 of the items are unscored pretest items you cannot tell apart from the others.
- Item formats
- Multiple choice, multiple response (select all that apply) and fill-in-the-blank calculation, some with exhibits and graphics. Generic drug names and metric units. An on-screen calculator.
- Moving on
- One item at a time. Every item must be answered and you cannot go back.
- Scoring
- Multiple choice is scored right or wrong; select all that apply earns partial credit.
- Passing
- The exam stops when it is 95% certain your ability is clearly above or below the passing standard, or decides at 150 items, or by the run-out-of-time rule. The standard is -0.32 logits through 31 December 2026 and -0.09 logits from 1 January 2027.
- Results
- Released by your regulator, BCCNM or CNO, within up to six weeks. A candidate who fails receives a Candidate Performance Report: below, near or above the passing standard in each content area. At least 60 days between attempts.
Sources, all from rexpn.com: 2027 REx-PN Test Plan, Candidate Bulletin, Computerized Adaptive Testing, FAQs, Passing Standard. Fetched 13 November 2026. Registration questions (eligibility, accommodations, results) go to your regulator: BCCNM or CNO.
What is not published, and what we do
- The item difficulties and the item pool are not published. Our mock follows the published rules (90 to 150 items, four hours, 30 pretest items, the content balance, the three stopping rules, the passing standard in force on the day) with our authors' difficulty estimates. It is a practice model and cannot predict your result.
- Where the 30 pretest items fall within the first 90 is ours; the Test Plan does not say.
- Our report shows the rule that ended your sitting, where the estimate sits against the standard, and an indicator per category in the CPR's words. The thresholds are ours.
- Every item is original and none is copied or adapted from the Test Plan's samples, the rexpn.com tutorial, any prep company or our NCLEX paths. Where scope differs between the two provinces or depends on employer policy, items turn on consulting, not on one province's rule.