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Licensing, registration and entrance exams
Sorted by where you intend to practise, because that is the question you are actually answering. Multi‑part licences show every part, so you can see the whole road rather than just the step in front of you.
United States
5 examsUSMLE — all three steps
Step 1Basic science · 7 blocks of 40
Step 2 CKClinical knowledge · 8 blocks
Step 3Two days, includes case simulations
NCLEX — computerised adaptive
RNRegistered Nurse
PNPractical Nurse
United Kingdom
3 examsGMC registration — both parts
PLAB 1Single best answer, written
PLAB 2OSCE · 16 clinical stations
NMC registration — nursing
CBTComputer‑based test, parts A and B
India
4 examsPostgraduate entrance
NEET PGNational eligibility, PG seats
INI CETInstitutes of national importance
Screening & undergraduate
FMGEForeign medical graduate screening
NEET UGUndergraduate entrance
Australia & international nursing
2 examsThe OSCE exams are marked “practical” deliberately. PLAB 2 and the NMC OSCE are assessed at a physical station by an examiner watching you handle a patient. We can rehearse the written knowledge behind them and nothing more. That is stated on the exam page above the buy button, not in a footnote below it.