All applicants to the General, Temporary, Special Assignment or Extended Class must pass the jurisprudence examination that is appropriate for that category and class. See detailed information on the Jurisprudence Examination webpage.

Yes. All applicants for registration with CNO, no matter where they were educated, are required to pass the jurisprudence examination.

No. Only applicants who have successfully completed their nursing program will receive the link to the jurisprudence examination. They must submit their application to CNO and pay the applicant fee before CNO will send the link.

We strongly encourage you to review the laws, regulations and CNO by-laws, practice standards and guidelines that govern the nursing profession in Ontario. It is highly unlikely that applicants can successfully complete the jurisprudence examination without reviewing materials in advance.

CNO has prepared a list of recommended study materials and sample test questions that help you prepare for the examination. Documents on the resource list may be revised whenever laws, regulations, by-laws and practice standards and guidelines are updated to reflect changes in nursing practice in Ontario. It is your responsibility to monitor the list for any updates and to ensure you review only the most recent versions of the documents.

To help you, CNO has developed a virtual “walkthrough” guide of the online examination. This virtual guide shows you the online learning environment and how to navigate through it to complete the jurisprudence examination. We encourage you to review the guide before taking the examination.

When you submit your CNO application online and pay the application fee, you receive a message and link in your Maintain Your Membership (MYM) applicant portal, with specific instructions to pay the jurisprudence examination fee.

Once we receive the payment, a follow-up message and link in the MYM portal will give you access to the online examination through a secure website. This is your personal access link and should not be shared with other applicants. You will have 30 days to complete the exam.

For security reasons, we do not provide a direct link to the testing website from CNO’s website.

Yes. The fee for the jurisprudence examination is $40 plus applicable taxes. All fees are in Canadian dollars and are non-refundable. You must pay the fee before you attempt to write the examination. Payment is made online by debit or credit card through a secure payment website. As soon as your payment is processed, you receive a link on MYM you can use to access the jurisprudence examination.

You will have 30 days from your payment date to complete the examination. If you don’t pass the examination the first time, you can rewrite the examination within the 30-day period at no additional cost. You must wait for at least one hour between attempts. After the 30-day period, your access to the online examination expires and you will have to pay again to access the exam.

Once you have received instructions about how to access the jurisprudence examination, you can choose to take the online examination whenever you like. You do not have to wait until after you write your registration examination.

No. You must write this examination on your own and not copy or share any of the questions with others.

The jurisprudence examination site supports all updated browsers. If your browser is out of date, you will see a message inviting you to upgrade it when you attempt to access the examination through the secure website.

There is no time restriction for applicants to complete the jurisprudence examinations. You will have 30 days from the time you pay the examination fee and log in to the online examination to successfully complete it.

We encourage you to complete the examination at your own pace. The examination allows you to either complete it in one sitting or save it and return to it at a later time. When you return, you can begin the examination where you left off.

The jurisprudence examination requires you to complete an interactive, open-book e-learning module and a multiple-choice exam. “Open book” means that you can use online or offline resources while writing the exams, such as laws, regulations and CNO’s practice standards.

The RN/RPN Jurisprudence Examination and the RN (EC) Jurisprudence Examination consist of 50 multiple-choice questions each.

Yes. You can save and leave the examination to return at a later time. Your completed answers will be saved.

The jurisprudence examination platform allows you to review your answers by selecting the “previous” or “next” option while taking the examination. At the end of the 50-question examination, you have the option to “submit” your answers. Once your answers are submitted, you have completed your jurisprudence examination and cannot go back and change any answers. You can close the online examination window and log out of MYM applicant portal.

You can apply for examination accommodation before completing the jurisprudence examination by notifying CNO in writing of your specific circumstances, with a request for alternate arrangements. You may need to provide supporting documentation with your request. For more information about applying for special accommodation, read Requesting Accommodation.

The examination is scored on a pass/fail basis.

Your examination result will be available in the message centre on your MYM applicant portal. This is the only way to receive your result.

The majority of applicants receive their examination result immediately after they submit their test answers. During periodic reviews of the jurisprudence examination process, some applicants’ results are delayed; however, you will receive your results within 24 hours.

We recommend that you keep a copy of the message with your examination result for your own records.

No. Your jurisprudence examination results will automatically be submitted to CNO.

Yes. If you receive a “fail” result for the jurisprudence examination, you can rewrite the examination. There is no limit on the number of times you can write the examination. You must wait at least one hour to attempt it again after you get your result. You will have 30 days from the date of your payment to successfully complete the jurisprudence examination. If this period expires and you have not yet passed the examination, you will need to pay the examination fee again to open another 30-day period.

If you are re-attempting the examination, we suggest that you review the learning module chapters before you attempt to answer the examination questions.