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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
Your nursing regulatory body sends a Candidate Performance Report after an unsuccessful NCLEX. It rates your performance in each Test Plan content area and in clinical judgment as below, near, or above 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
When a candidate fails, the Candidate Bulletin says the nursing regulatory body sends a Candidate Performance Report. It is a diagnostic relative to the passing standard, not a printout of live items and not a percent-correct transcript. Turn your weakest CPR Client Need into the next practice block with Passy.
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.
What is on your CPR
NCLEX describes the CPR as an individualized, two-page document. It reports your performance by Test Plan content area and by clinical judgment, and rates each area as Below the Passing Standard, Near the Passing Standard, or Above the Passing Standard. The bulletin adds that the report states the failing result and the number of items you were given. If you did not answer the minimum number of items, you receive an abbreviated report that shows how many you answered and how many were required, with no diagnostic detail.
Two limits matter. The area ratings are not added up into your result: the NCLEX is not scored in sections, and pass or fail depends on overall performance. And NCLEX suggests studying the areas below the passing standard first, then the ones near it, while still reviewing the areas above it, so treat a “Near” rating as unfinished work.
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 that weak row with Passy’s NCLEX-PN questions, 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. The NCLEX-PN CPR retake planner turns your rows into hours for each week until your test date.
Build the remaining days around your CPR with Passy’s study planning, not around shame.
A 20-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 NCLEX-PN questions in the wait with Passy 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.