Get Ready with ANCC's Readiness Tests
Ease testing anxiety and assess your readiness with the pretest that's like the real test.
Ease testing anxiety and assess your readiness with the pretest that's like the real test.
Taking a certification exam can be a stressful experience. The Readiness Test can help you feel more comfortable and confident before you take the certification exam. Each question on the test has been validated and reviewed by a panel of content experts certified in the advanced practice or specialty nursing area to ensure relevancy and accuracy.
Each Readiness Test testing session is priced at $85 and allows examinees 75 minutes to answer 60 questions in the domain content categories of the Test Content Outline. Please consult the appropriate Test Content Outline to review the content categories: https://www.nursingworld.org/our-certifications/.
Readiness Test | Test Suspension Period |
Cardiac-Vascular Nursing | September 30 - October 7, 2024 |
Nursing Professional Development | November 5 - 12, 2024 |
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner |
December 10 - 17, 2024 |
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All ANCC Readiness Tests are computer-based and offered through the Prometric™ testing system. Prometric is an international network of testing centers.
Testing Options
Important Update: Effective immediately, Live Remote Proctoring (LRP) is no longer offered as a scheduling option for ANCC certification exams. Candidates may take the Readiness Test via LRP or at a Prometric testing center but must take the certification exam at a Prometric testing center. All Prometric testing centers are now operating at pre-pandemic capacity. Please choose the testing environment for the Readiness Test that best fits your needs. It is recommended to schedule the Readiness Test at a testing center if you want to familiarize yourself with the testing center's location, check-in procedures, and policies before taking the ANCC certification exam.
How to Schedule Your Test
Live Remote Proctoring (LRP)
Prometric Testing Center
After you take the test, you will receive a detailed score report an hour later via email. The score report will include your performance percent score, minimum percent passing score, and the number of questions answered correctly in each content domain. View your score report here.
ANCC, in collaboration with Prometric, offers nursing programs and organizations the option to purchase bulk orders of Readiness Test vouchers for their students or employees. Individual nursing students or nurses redeem the voucher code when scheduling a Readiness Test. Please contact the ANCC Readiness Test Team at anccreadinesstest@ana.org for questions and to order.
Tiered Pricing:
Min. Quantity | Max. Quantity | Price |
1 | 10 | $85 |
11 | 20 | $80 |
21 | 99 | $75 |
100 | - | $70 |