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NCE practice exam: 200 questions in 3 hours 45 minutes
200 questions · 3 h 45 min · 160 scored · Mark for review
The NCE format: 200 four-option questions in 3 hours 45 minutes, 160 of them scored in NBCC’s six domain counts. The result shows your score on the 160 scored questions and a score for every domain and CACREP area.
Before you start
- Every question has four options and one correct answer. Each explanation says why the answer is right and why the most tempting wrong answer is wrong.
- The 160 scored questions follow NBCC’s domain counts (Professional Practice and Ethics 19, Intake, Assessment, and Diagnosis 19, Areas of Clinical Focus 47, Treatment Planning 14, Counseling Skills and Interventions 48, Core Counseling Attributes 13); 40 unscored field-test questions are mixed in, as on the real exam. NBCC sets its passing score by standard setting and equating and does not publish a fixed number, so the result shows your score rather than a pass line.
- As on the real exam, you can skip questions, go back, change answers and mark questions for review. The clock keeps running in background tabs and reloads; when time runs out, your answers are submitted.
Original practice questions written to NBCC’s published NCE and NCMHCE content outlines, not NBCC exam questions. Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), the Center for Credentialing & Education or Pearson VUE. NCE and NCMHCE are marks of NBCC.