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NCLEX-PN Candidate Performance Report: How to Use Your CPR
The NCLEX-PN CPR is given after an unsuccessful attempt. It shows Client Needs performance relative to the passing standard. Use it to choose the next PN study block, not as a percent-correct score.
Short answer
The Candidate Performance Report is issued after an unsuccessful NCLEX. It describes how you performed on Client Needs relative to the passing standard. It is not a percentage-correct score and not a list of live items. For NCLEX-PN, read Coordinated Care and Pharmacological Therapies as practical-nurse categories, then change what you practice before the 45-day wait ends.
What the CPR is—and what it is not
NCSBN provides a Candidate Performance Report after an unsuccessful NCLEX examination. It is a diagnostic relative to the passing standard, not a printout of live items and not a percent-correct transcript. Turn the weakest PN Client Need into the next practice block.
You still cannot reconstruct recalled questions from the CPR. Do not try. That would collide with exam security and would not be a study method.
Read PN labels, not RN labels
A PN CPR uses the PN Client Needs names. If your notes still say Management of Care or Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies, you are overlaying the wrong exam.
What's on the NCLEX-PN? is the blueprint. Typical translation:
- Below the standard on Coordinated Care → assignment, reporting, escalation. Coordinated Care Guide.
- Below on Pharmacological Therapies → hold parameters, teaching reinforcement. Pharmacology Guide.
- Below on Safety and Infection Prevention and Control → PPE and isolation. Safety Guide.
Practice the PN version of the weak row, not an RN management set.
How to turn a row into a week
- Pick the lowest Client Need that is large enough to matter (Coordinated Care first if it is low).
- Do a short mixed set so you do not over-fit one topic.
- Explain every miss in LPN/VN language: monitor, report, reinforce, assign stable tasks.
- Repeat until the pattern changes—not until you invent a percent that “would have passed.”
Failed NCLEX-PN is the emotional and logistical sequence. Retake policy is the calendar.
Build the remaining days around the CPR, not around shame.
A 10-question Passy set cannot replace the CPR. It can test whether you are still picking RN-level independent actions. Use the NCLEX-PN practice preview as that scope check.
Keep mixed PN items in the wait so the CPR row is not your only drill.
Trust the source
Official sources
Exam policies can change. Use these primary sources for the most current details.