NNC Licensure

It sits under the Council's New Registration / Licensing Exam service, which the NNC describes as covering registration certificates and licensing exams. In practice it is the route by which a nursing graduate is entered on the NNC register and can practise. Confirm your own eligibility category and required documents directly with the Council before applying.

The NNC's public pages describe the licensing exam only as a multiple-choice exam. The Council does not publish the number of questions, the duration, or the pass mark on its website. Plan for a timed MCQ paper and confirm the specifics from the official notice issued for your exam cycle.

Not stated in the available NNC source material, so treat any figure you hear as unverified. The question count and duration are normally given in the notice published for each exam cycle. Check the NNC Notices page and the Annual Calendar, and read the notice for your own cycle rather than relying on earlier years.

The NNC does not publish a pass mark on its public pages. Do not rely on remembered percentages from earlier cycles, because rules change. The authoritative figure will appear in the notice or guidelines for your exam. Until then, aim to be comfortably above any plausible cut-off rather than targeting a bare minimum.

The NNC website does not state a retake policy, including any waiting period or limit on attempts. Because this is unconfirmed, contact the Council directly at [email protected] or 01-4372521, or visit the office, to ask about reapplying after an unsuccessful attempt and about any fee or timing conditions attached.

Start with the Act and Regulations and the NNC Guidelines so you know the regulatory content cold, then work through your nursing curriculum subject by subject with practice MCQs. Use the Annual Calendar to fix your timeline and check Notices weekly for changes. Build in timed mock papers once content review is complete.

Three recur: studying without checking the current notice, so you prepare for a format that has changed; skipping the Act, Regulations and Guidelines because they feel like administration rather than nursing; and leaving timed practice until the last week. Regulatory questions are easy marks if you have read the source documents.

The Council is at Bansbari, Kathmandu; phone 01-4372521, fax 977-1-4377214, email [email protected]. Office hours are 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday, excluding public holidays, from Kartik 16, 2083 to Magh 15, 2083. For administrative or information matters, the information officer listed is Ms. Rekha Giri.

The NNC provides a Grievance Form on its website with a complaint category, feedback type, subject and message fields, and it can be submitted anonymously. A grievance QR code is also published. After submitting, you can check the reply using your grievance number. For administration and information queries, contact the listed information officer.