NCLEX-RN Syllabus 2026

The complete subject-wise syllabus for NCLEX-RN, as set by NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing). Work through it one topic at a time: solve the MCQs on a topic until you are consistently above 80 percent before moving to the next.

• •Computer adaptive: between 85 and 150 items in up to 5 hours; the test ends once a pass or fail decision is certain
• •Next Generation NCLEX (since April 2023) adds case studies that measure clinical judgement
• •Content follows the NCSBN client needs: safe and effective care environment, health promotion, psychosocial integrity and physiological integrity
• •Mocks here are 85 single-answer MCQs weighted by those categories; case-study and select-all item types are not reproduced