SCRN pass rate, four years of ABNN counts

The table on the exam page lists test takers and passing candidates per year. Divided out, the results are 912 of 1,296 (70.4%) in 2021, 740 of 1,035 (71.5%) in 2022, 808 of 1,224 (66.0%) in 2023 and 932 of 1,389 (67.1%) in 2024. The board's own five-year figure is 71%.

These counts include everyone who sat the exam that year, repeat candidates as well as first attempts. The board does not split out first attempts; any first-time rate you see for this exam was computed by someone else. The dip after 2022 coincides with the new outline, first used in the September 2023 window, but no published reason exists, and the counts alone cannot show one.

Pass point: Scaled 200. A panel of stroke nurses, working with PSI's psychometricians, sets the number of correct answers a borderline-competent candidate should reach on each form; the Board of Trustees approves it. That raw number is then set equal to 200, and other raw scores are converted in a straight line above and below it (handbook, p. 18).

The reason is fairness between forms: a slightly harder form gets a lower raw cut, so a 200 reflects one standard across forms. The raw cut therefore varies and stays unpublished. A “you need 70%” figure has no source in the handbook. Results come at the end of a center session, or by email after a remote one; details on exam facts.

About a third of the people who sit the exam in a year do not pass. The data do not say which items fail candidates. From the outline and the guideline history, two areas deserve the most care: blood pressure thresholds, which differ by stroke type and by treatment given, and answers that changed with the 2026 acute stroke guideline (what changed).

Among the exams on this site, this is the one with a scaled score. The BCEN exams publish a raw cut, for example 96 of 150 for the TCRN, and AACN states one for the CMC, so pass points cannot be compared side by side.