Everything you wanted to ask before signing up.

Practice quizzes are free. Your everyday studying — adaptive practice rounds, Focus Mode, and your full performance dashboard — is free for every nurse, no card required.

Full Exam Simulation — timed, full-length practice that mirrors real test-day conditions — plus the full question bank and your readiness dashboard are included with an all-access subscription (a subscription, monthly or annual, cancel anytime).

All-access means every exam — one subscription unlocks the NCLEX-RN and every nursing specialty certification on CertifyRN, not just the one you're studying for, and any exams we add are automatically included. Switch between them anytime at no extra cost. Capped everyday practice stays free for everyone — the subscription is what keeps the free tier running and funds new certifications.

Live now: NCLEX-RN, CCRN, PCCN, CMSRN, CPHQ, and NE-BC.

Coming soon: CEN, and more based on demand.

Every one of them is included in a single all-access subscription — you're never locked to one exam. If there's a certification you'd like us to add, tell us through the contact form; demand drives our roadmap.

If there's a certification you'd like to see added, let us know through our contact form — demand drives our roadmap.

No app store needed — CertifyRN runs right in your web browser on any device. If you'd prefer an app-like experience, you can optionally install it to your home screen: it's a Progressive Web App, so your browser's "Install" or "Add to Home Screen" option turns it into a standalone app — still no app store, no updates to manage, and minimal storage. Either way, just go to certifyrn.com and sign in.

Your progress automatically syncs across every device you sign in on, so you can practice on your phone during a break and pick up on your laptop at home.

Click "Continue with Google" or "Continue with Apple" on the home page. That's it — your existing account creates the login automatically. No password to remember, no email verification step.

We do not store passwords. Authentication is handled by Google or Apple, which means your sign-in is at least as secure as your email account itself.

The CertifyRN engine tracks your performance and adjusts what you see next based on how you're doing. Instead of random shuffling, your study time is directed where it matters most:

• Questions you got wrong return more often, until you consistently answer them correctly
• Questions you haven't seen yet get prioritized, so you actually cover the full bank
• Questions you pin for review are surfaced more frequently
• Questions you've clearly mastered come up less often, so they don't waste your time

The result: every round is built around the questions where you have the most to learn — not the ones you've already nailed.

Balanced Mode — 10 questions per round, mixing unseen, previously-wrong, and pinned questions weighted by the adaptive engine. This is your default day-to-day study mode.

Focus Mode — 20 questions per round, pulling exclusively from your weak spots: pinned questions, questions you've gotten wrong, and questions you've barely seen. Use this when you have a chunk of study time and want maximum impact on weak areas.

Both modes draw from the same question bank — they just select differently.

Exam Simulation runs a full-length, certification-specific exam under realistic conditions: no feedback during the test, no ability to flag, no rationale until the end. You get a pass/fail verdict and full review at completion.

This is the closest thing to test-day experience you can get without paying for an official practice exam. Use it 1–2 weeks before your actual exam to gauge readiness.

Your readiness score is a weighted calculation, not just raw accuracy. It multiplies your accuracy in each domain by that domain's weight on the actual exam blueprint, then sums the result.

Example: scoring 90% on a 30%-weighted domain matters more than 90% on a 5%-weighted domain. The readiness score reflects what your real exam outcome would likely look like, given the blueprint.

Each available certification launches with 700+ questions covering every domain on the exam blueprint, and the banks grow regularly as new questions are added and refined.

Every question includes a detailed rationale explaining why the correct answer is correct — and often why the distractors are wrong — so you learn from each one regardless of whether you got it right.

Yes. Send a request through our contact form (choose “Data or privacy request”) from the email associated with your account, and we'll delete your account and all associated study data within 30 days.

For full details on what we collect and how it's stored, see our Privacy Policy.

A simple freemium model — no ads. Capped everyday practice (adaptive rounds, Focus Mode, and your full performance dashboard) is free for every nurse, no card required.

Nurses who want more upgrade to an all-access subscription (monthly or annual, cancel anytime), which opens the full question bank and full-length exam simulation across every exam on CertifyRN — one subscription covers them all, not just a single certification. Those subscriptions are what keep the free tier running and fund new certifications.

Most candidates do well with 2–4 weeks of consistent daily practice, depending on your experience level and background knowledge. Nurses with strong day-to-day exposure to the certification's content area tend to need less time; those preparing in an unfamiliar specialty typically need closer to 4 weeks.

Even just 15–20 minutes a day is enough to make meaningful progress. The adaptive engine works best when you study little and often rather than cramming in long blocks. Use the dashboard's readiness score as a guide — a score above 75% across all domains is a strong signal you're ready to test.

Take one early — even on day one — to identify which domains are weakest. Then take another 1–2 weeks before your real exam to confirm readiness.

Don't take exam simulations too frequently. Each one is meant to be a snapshot under realistic pressure, not a daily routine. Use Balanced Mode and Focus Mode for daily practice instead.