Free NCLEX-PN® Practice Questions (2026): Where to Start

Quick answer: You can practice for the NCLEX-PN® for $0 in four places that do not expire: NCSBN's own sample pack (the exam maker), Passclex (1,073 questions, no account), Nurseslabs (200 questions, no account), and Study With Lily's free plan (50 questions a month, no card). Hurst, UWorld, SimpleNursing, NURSING.com, and Archer add short trials or demos on top. Below is what each one gives you, ranked by how much real PN practice you get for nothing. Everything was checked on October 3, 2026.

Study With Lily publishes this guide and sells one of the products below. Every claim links to the provider's own page. Offers change, so confirm before you count on one.

Compare the free PN sources

Start with the exam maker

NCSBN's preparation page says its sample pack includes "3 RN case studies, 2 PN case studies and additional examples." It also lists the candidate tutorial for the Pearson exam software and a separate exam preview.

Two case studies will not carry your prep. They are still worth an hour early on. The 2026 NCLEX-PN® test plan says a case study has six items tied to one client, with information that unfolds as you go. Seeing that written by the people who write the exam beats learning it from a lookalike.

Passclex for volume

Passclex lists 1,073 practice questions and says every quiz, study guide, and cheatsheet works with no account, no credit card, and no paywall. Each answer comes with a rationale. The site's founder describes himself as an LVN graduate. There is also a paid question bank, listed at $39 for 30 days, so expect to see it. The page does not say which question formats the free set includes, so treat it as content review volume.

Nurseslabs for a clean timed set

Nurseslabs has 200 free PN questions split into eight exams of 25. Practice exams show feedback right away. Challenge exams run at two minutes per item. The page says no sign-ups and no credit card. It does not say whether these 200 include Next Gen or select-all items, so check as you go. Two hundred is a small bank. Do it once, read every rationale, then move on.

Study With Lily's free plan

Our free plan gives you 50 practice questions per rolling 30 days. Up to 15 of those can be Coursework questions built from your own class materials. No credit card. The free tier serves single-answer, select-all-that-apply, Matrix, and Drop-Down Cloze items. BowTie and unfolding case studies need Full Access.

The daily NCLEX-PN® question needs no account, and you can look at today's and yesterday's. The PN prep page lays out how the rest of the product works. Full Access is $15 a month, $50 once for a four-month term, or $120 once for Lifetime. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Provider trials: useful, but they end

• Hurst Review: a free trial of 30 days, with RN and LPN/LVN options on the sign-up form. The page does not say whether a card is needed.
• UWorld: a 7-day free trial with exam-style questions, sample videos, and study tools. UWorld's free questions page says its trial is valid for 7 days with no credit card required.
• SimpleNursing: its PN page says the free trial "provides limited access to some of our study materials."
• NURSING.com: a 3-day trial with the monthly plan. Its pricing page says you owe nothing if you cancel inside the 3 days, which means the card goes in first.
• Archer Review: a demo of the Question Bank before you enroll. The page does not say what the demo covers.

Use a trial to test the product, not to study. Pick one topic you know and one you dodge, do twenty questions in each, and judge the rationales. Read the payment terms before you enter a card.

How to use free questions so they count

NCSBN reports that the first-time pass rate for US-educated PN candidates in 2025 was 86.6%, per its 2025 NCLEX Examination Statistics. Most people pass. The ones who don't usually did a lot of questions and learned little from them.

1. Read every rationale, including the ones you got right. A correct guess is a miss you haven't found yet.
2. Sort misses by test plan category. The 2026 PN test plan puts Coordinated Care at 18 to 24% of items, the largest single slice. Safety and Infection Prevention and Control and Pharmacological Therapies each run 10 to 16%. Delegation and scope-of-practice questions show up a lot, so don't save them for last. Our PN test plan breakdown goes category by category.
3. Mix formats on purpose. If a bank is mostly single-answer, add the NCSBN case studies and a Matrix or Drop-Down Cloze set. The test plan says clinical judgment is measured with three case study sets plus roughly 10% stand-alone items.
4. Write down why you missed it. Didn't know the content, misread the stem, or picked the second-best action. Each one has a different fix.
5. Don't redo the same free set. The second pass tests your memory of the answers.

If you're wondering where you stand, how hard the NCLEX-PN® really is is a good read before you set a schedule. Prepping for the RN exam instead? Here is the RN version of this list.

What free questions cannot do

Free banks are fixed sets. They don't adapt difficulty, run a long timed session that behaves like the real exam, or track your results by category over months. A paid plan covers that, and it starts to matter in the last eight to twelve weeks. Until then, a free bank plus the NCSBN pack is enough to find your weak spots.

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