Free NCLEX-PN Practice Questions
One quiz per subject — you choose how many questions you want and whether you get feedback as you go. Every quiz shuffles on each attempt, gives detailed rationales, and saves your score. No account, no paywall.
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Pick a subject and start a 10-question Tutor quiz, or customize the topics, length and mode. Each subject pools all of its practice questions, and you choose how many to take.
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About These NCLEX-PN Practice Questions
Every question on this page is an NCLEX-PN style question written for LPN/LVN students at the PN scope of practice, not adapted down from RN material. All 1,073 of them are free, organized into the eight subjects your program and the NCLEX-PN both cover, and every single one comes with a rationale that explains why the right answer is right and why the other options are wrong. Pick a subject above, decide how many questions you want, and start.
How to use them as an LPN practice test
You don't need a separate "practice test" page. Each subject quiz runs two ways. Tutor mode shows you the rationale after every question, which is how you learn a topic. Exam mode holds all feedback until the end and scores you like a test, which is how you check whether the topic stuck. Set the number of questions, pick Exam mode, and you have a practice test for that subject. Do it again next week and compare the scores; the quiz saves them.
What's in the bank
Multiple-choice and Select All That Apply (SATA) questions across eight subjects: Anatomy & Physiology, Fundamentals, Med-Surg, Pharmacology, Maternity & OB, Pediatrics, Mental Health, and Gerontology. SATA items are scored the way the Next Generation NCLEX scores them, with partial credit: a point for each correct selection and a point off for each wrong one, never below zero. Every subject also has a topic filter, so you can drill cardiovascular alone, or endocrine plus renal, instead of the whole pool.
Written for the PN, reviewed by an LVN
Every question is written at the LPN/LVN level and reviewed by a licensed vocational nurse, and each one is grounded in the free study guides on this site, so a student who studied the guide can answer the question and every fact in a rationale traces back to something we actually teach. That also means the level is the PN level. If you're an RN student, the fundamentals, pharmacology, and med-surg banks will still serve you, but the scope, delegation, and priority questions are written for what an LPN/LVN is licensed to do.
Where to start
Early in your program, take the quiz for whatever you're studying this week in Tutor mode, ten or twenty questions at a time. In your last stretch before the NCLEX-PN, rotate subjects in Exam mode and let your weakest scores set the order. In Tutor mode, read the rationale on the questions you got right, too. That's where you find out whether you knew it or guessed it. In Exam mode, the review at the end covers the questions you missed. If you want a day-by-day structure, the 30-day NCLEX-PN study plan builds these quizzes into a schedule.
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How many questions are on the NCLEX-PN?
The NCLEX-PN is a computer-adaptive test (CAT) of 85 to 150 questions. It isn't a fixed-length exam: each answer you give adjusts the difficulty of the next question, and the test stops once it can determine with 95% certainty that your ability is above (or below) the passing standard.
That means doing well can end your exam sooner — but answering all 150 questions does not mean you failed. If your exam stopped at 85, here is what that actually means. Practicing a large bank of NCLEX-PN style questions with rationales, like the quizzes above, is one of the best ways to build the consistent accuracy the adaptive format rewards.
The quizzes above are multiple choice and SATA. If you want full-length tests with the Next Gen formats too, that's what our paid NCLEX-PN QBank is for. $39 for 30 days, one-time, no auto-renew.
Common Questions About the Practice Quizzes
Are these real NCLEX-PN questions?
No, and be suspicious of any site that says otherwise. The live exam's questions are confidential to NCSBN; the only official samples are the few NCSBN publishes itself. These are NCLEX-PN style questions: the same question formats and the same level of judgment the exam asks for, organized by the same subjects, with a rationale on each one. Anyone selling "real questions" is selling a dump, and those get people disqualified.
Is this really free, and do I have to pay for anything?
Yes, every practice question on this page is free, with no payment. The one paid product on this site is the separate NCLEX-PN QBank, which adds full-length timed tests and the Next Generation item types. You never need it to use these quizzes.
Can I use these as an LPN practice test?
Yes. Pick a subject, set how many questions you want, and choose Exam mode, which hides the rationales until the end and scores you like a test. That gives you a practice test for that subject. The quizzes are per subject rather than one mixed full-length exam, so rotate through subjects to cover the whole test plan.
What's the difference between Tutor mode and Exam mode?
Tutor mode shows the rationale right after each answer, so you learn as you go. Exam mode holds every rationale until you finish, then shows your score and a review of the questions you missed. Use Tutor mode to learn a topic and Exam mode to check whether it stuck.
Do the quizzes include SATA and Next Gen questions?
Select All That Apply, yes, and they're scored with the Next Generation NCLEX partial-credit method: a point for each correct selection, a point off for each incorrect one, never below zero. The other Next Gen formats, like case studies, bow-tie, and matrix items, are in the paid QBank, not the free quizzes.
Are these for the NCLEX-PN or the NCLEX-RN?
The NCLEX-PN. Every question is written at the LPN/LVN scope of practice, in NCLEX-PN style. RN students can still use the fundamentals, pharmacology, and med-surg banks for content review, but the delegation, scope, and priority questions reflect what an LPN/LVN is licensed to do.
How many practice questions should I do a day?
Enough to read the rationales. Twenty to forty a day with real rationale review beats a hundred rushed. In the last month before the NCLEX-PN, most students who pass report doing somewhere between 1,500 and 3,500 total, and the 30-day study plan on this site paces that out.
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