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2016 mid-year NCLEX-RN results: Ontario graduates applying to CNO
January 1 – June 30, 2016
The following tables show the exam results of College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) applicants who wrote the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) for the first time during the first six months of 2016. Full-year first-time write pass rates for 2012–2015 are included for comparison.
Between January 1 and June 30, 2016, 1,515 Ontario-educated CNO applicants wrote the NCLEX-RN for the first time. Of these, 82.7% passed on their first write. This pass rate is 13.3 percentage points higher than the rate for 2015. The 2015 first time pass rate for the entire year was 69.4%.
The number of Ontario-educated first-time exam writers so far in 2016 (up to June 30) is 40% of the total number of first-time writers in 2015. More applicants are still due to graduate and will write the exam for the first time later in 2016.
2012 to June 2016 NCLEX-RN results: The number of first-time writes and the pass rates by exam year and location of nursing education
|
Location of Nursing Education** |
CRNE First-Time Writes* |
NCLEX-RN First-Time Writes* |
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|
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 (Jan-Jun) |
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|
Writes |
Pass Rate |
Writes |
Pass Rate |
Writes |
Pass Rate |
Writes |
Pass Rate |
Writes |
Pass Rate |
|
|
Ontario |
3,825 |
81.1% |
3,852 |
82.8% |
4,095 |
84.7% |
3,800 |
69.4% |
1,515 |
82.7% |
|
Other Canadian Jurisdiction |
0 |
- |
9 |
100% |
7 |
100% |
38 |
76.3% |
19 |
68.4% |
|
International |
756 |
36.0% |
572 |
39.3% |
560 |
37.0% |
234 |
35.9% |
59 |
47.5% |
|
Total First-Time Writes |
4,581 |
73.7% |
4,433 |
77.2% |
4,662 |
79.0% |
4,072 |
67.6% |
1,593 |
81.2% |
* Starting in 2015, RN applicants wrote the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) as the registration exam. Prior to 2015, RN applicants wrote the Canadian Registered Nurse Examination (CRNE).
** The location of nursing education refers to where a writer completed their nursing program.
