Free CNA practice test

A full CNA exam practice test, weighted the way the content outline in force publishes it — not the 2016 blueprint the free packets still teach. 60 scored questions, an explanation for every one, nothing to sign up for.

CNA full-length practice

60 scored questions. 120 minutes.

That is the full clock the real paper gives you, spent on the 60 questions that count. On the day, 10 unscored pretest items share the same 120 minutes, so the real pace is about 1.7 minutes an item — this run is deliberately a little kinder than that. The questions are dealt in the proportions the content outline publishes rather than evenly. The clock starts when you press the button and submits the test when it runs out, and you will not be told whether an answer was right until the end — that is the point of a full run.

1.7 min an item on the day No calculator Weighted to the published outline No account, nothing saved off your device

Practise one area at a time

The full test tells you where you stand. These tell you what to do about it: untimed sets with the explanation right after each answer, which is the one thing a timed run cannot give you.

The figure beside each area is the number of scored questions the content outline gives it, out of 60. Spend your time in that proportion.

Activities of daily living 13/60 Hygiene, dressing, feeding, elimination and rest — the work of the shift published 22% of the examinationBasic nursing skills 21/60 Infection control, safety and emergencies, procedures, and what you observe and report published 35% of the examinationSelf-care and independence 4/60 Restorative care: helping a client do it themselves rather than doing it for them published 7% of the examinationEmotional and mental health 5/60 Confusion, dementia, anxiety, grief and the behaviours that come with them published 8% of the examinationSpiritual and cultural needs 1/60 Practice, belief, food, family and the end of life — asking rather than assuming published 2% of the examinationCommunication 4/60 Speaking, listening and writing it down — including with sensory loss published 7% of the examinationClient rights 5/60 Privacy, dignity, choice, refusal, possessions and freedom from restraint published 8% of the examinationLegal and ethical behaviour 3/60 Abuse and neglect, mandatory reporting, scope of practice and honest records published 5% of the examinationMember of the health care team 4/60 Delegation, the chain of command, teamwork and the care plan published 6% of the examination

Seventy questions, sixty that count

The paper in front of you has 70 multiple-choice questions on it. 10 of them are pretest items being trialled for future examinations: they are not marked, and they are not identified, so there is no way to spot one and nothing to be gained from trying. The blueprint — the thing that says how many questions come from each content area — describes the 60 that are scored, and that is what this practice test reproduces.

This matters more than it sounds, because the blueprint changed. The free practice packet the administrator publishes is dated 2021 and prints the 2016 content outline, which gave daily living nine questions and basic nursing skills twenty-three. The outline in force gives them thirteen and twenty-one. Practising from the free packet is practising a paper with four fewer questions on hygiene, dressing, feeding and elimination than the one you will sit.

Time is not the difficulty here in the way it is on an aptitude test — 120 minutes for 70 questions is about 1.7 minutes each, and you are told when 15 minutes remain. What the examination actually tests is whether you reach for the answer that protects the client, in situations where the fast answer and the safe answer are different.

Frequently asked

How many questions are on the CNA written examination?
Seventy are presented and sixty are scored. Credentia’s content outline states that the written examination is made up of 70 multiple-choice items, of which 10 are pretest items that are not identified to you and do not count. Both numbers are correct and most sites print only one of them.
How long do you get for the CNA written examination?
120 minutes — two hours — for the whole paper, which is about 1.7 minutes an item. The candidate handbook says you are told when 15 minutes remain. Time is not usually the difficulty on this examination; it is there so that reading carefully is possible.
What score do you need to pass?
The sources read for this site do not publish a raw passing percentage, so no page here states one. This practice test reports how many you answered correctly and how you did in each content area, and never estimates whether that would have passed. Any site quoting a specific percentage is quoting something it has not cited.
Is there an oral version?
Yes. Candidates who read English with difficulty may take an oral examination instead: 60 multiple-choice questions plus a 10-item reading comprehension section, in the same 120 minutes, and both sections must be passed. The subject matter is the same, so the practice on this site applies to either.
Does this prepare me for the skills evaluation?
No. Certification needs both the written examination and a skills evaluation performed in front of an evaluator, and the second one is practised with your hands against the checklist your state publishes. This site is the written half only, and says so rather than implying it is the whole thing.
Are these the real questions?
No, and nobody publishing the real ones would be doing so lawfully. Every question here is original, written against the published content outline so that practising it covers what the examination covers rather than reproducing it.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and nothing to buy. Your scores are kept in your own browser and never sent anywhere.

Questions this page does not answer

Who delivers the examination, and what changed this year. Both come up often enough to have their own page, and each of those pages runs the same full-length test.

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The other half of certification

Certification needs two parts: this written examination and a skills evaluation performed in front of an evaluator. Both must be passed. Nothing on this site prepares you for the skills evaluation — that is practised with your hands, on the checklist your state publishes.

232 original questions are in the bank behind this test, across the 9 content areas above.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the date it was read. Requirements change; if a source has moved on since that date, the source is right and this page is out of date.

Allied Exam Bank is independent practice material and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorized by Credentia, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, or any state nurse aide registry. NNAAP® is a registered trademark of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. Programme and examination names are used only to describe what this material prepares you for. Every question here is original and none is taken from any actual examination. This site is not a nurse aide training programme and does not prepare you for the skills evaluation.