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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Have a question about the CBT or the OSCE?
The fee for sitting the CBT is £83.
If you need to resit the CBT, the following fees will apply:
Resit Part A and Part B: £83
Resit Part A only: £50
Resit Part B only: £70
Part A:
The current pass mark for the Numeracy section (Part A) is 87% (you must get 13 out of 15 questions correct).
Part B:
The current pass mark for the Clinical section (Part B) varies across nursing strands to reflect the different difficulty of the tests, but is generally within a range of 60%-70%.
The CBT comprises 115 questions. All questions are scored as correct or incorrect, and there is no partial credit.
Part A will comprise a 15-mark numeracy assessment and Part B will be a 100-mark theory assessment
You must have an excellent knowledge in the health needs of patients as well has how professional practice works within the UK.
The UK CBT includes items written at a variety of different cognitive levels which are designed to test the knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of professional nursing and midwifery practice.
Typically, the examination will test you in the following areas:
a. Professional values
b. Communication and interpersonal skills
c. Nursing practice and decision making
d. Leadership, management, and team working
e. Specific nursing field competencies
The fee for sitting the OSCE is £794.
The good news is that your UK hospital employer will pay this cost upfront on your behalf, and may then reclaim it from your salary over an agreed period.
If you do not pass the OSCE on your first attempt, the following re-sit fees will apply:
Partial Re-sit (if you need re-sit up to 7 stations): £397
Full Re-sit (if you need to re-sit 8 or more stations): £794
As you can see from the above pass-rates, our OSCE training has been fully revised and updated to cover all the knowledge and skills you will need to take the new OSCE with confidence!
2. You can prepare ahead of time. By starting your learning and preparation before your deployment, it means you won’t be seeing and hearing everything for the first time when you arrive in the UK. This can be especially helpful when you will no doubt be going through a period of adjustment as you settle in to your new home.
3. Free ‘Become a UK Registered Nurse’ eBook. Designed especially to help Internationally Educated Nurses to prepare for the OSCE, this valuable reference guide is yours to keep, allowing you to revise as often
The NMC will inform you of your OSCE results within 15 working days after you take your test. The following outcomes are possible:
PASS: Passed all stations taken – Congratulations! You have passed and the NMC will be in touch to issue your NMC PIN.
FAIL: You will only need to re-sit the stations you have not passed. If you need to re-sit the APIE stations, you will be given your original paperwork from the APIE stations you passed in your previous attempt, to complete the re-sit stations in sequence.
The OSCE is comprised of 10 sections, or ‘stations’:
Four stations will be scenario-based and will relate to the four stages of the nursing care process:
– Assessment
– Planning
– Implementation
– Evaluation
Four of the stations will test practical clinical skills. This will take the form of two pairs of two skills.
Each pairing of skills stations will last for up to 21 minutes in total, with 4 minutes in between the pairings.
One station will specifically assess professional issues associated with professional accountability and the related skills around communication. This will be a written assessment.
One station will also specifically assess critical appraisal of research and evidence and associated decision-making. This is also a written assessment.
The OSCE is taken after you have been deployed to the UK. It is conducted in one of 5 locations across the UK:
– Oxford Brookes University
– University of Northampton
– Ulster University
– Northumbria University
– Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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We are proud of our students success and massive congratulations on completing CBT/OSCE successfully. Well Done !!
