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NPPE exam results: when they come, the pass mark and retakes

Your result is pass or fail, and it comes from your regulator, not from Meazure Learning or the National Professional Practice Examination (NPPE) program. Processing takes about 2 to 3 weeks after the exam dates, and you’ll have your NPPE exam results before the registration deadline for the session after yours. To pass you need a scaled score of 65, which isn’t the same as getting 65% of the questions right.

  • 65Scaled pass score, not 65% of questions
  • Pass or failAll you’re told if you pass
  • About 2 to 3 weeksFrom the exam to your result
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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

When do NPPE exam results come out?

The NPPE program estimates 2 to 3 weeks after the exam dates, because the results have to be analyzed first. Its scoring page says you’ll get your pass or fail decision at least a week before the registration deadline for the following session. Results aren’t given by phone or email.

Where you see them depends on your regulator. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) posts them in myAPEGA and emails you when they’re ready, as long as you’ve opted in to regulatory emails. Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba (EGM) says results are in your online profile within four weeks of the exam.

NPPE program: Scoring ↗APEGA: National Professional Practice Examination ↗

What is the NPPE pass mark?

An equated, or scaled, score of 65. The NPPE program is clear that this isn’t 65% of the questions: scores are equated so that a harder or easier exam form in one session is taken into account, which means you can’t work your scaled score out from a percentage.

Your raw score is simply the number of the 100 scored questions you got right, with no penalty for wrong answers, so it’s worth answering every one. The 10 unscored experimental questions look the same as the rest. The cut score was set by subject-matter experts from across Canada using the modified-Angoff method, and there’s no quota: no set share of candidates passes or fails, and first-time and repeat candidates are marked to the same standard.

The NPPE program doesn’t publish pass rates on its website.

NPPE program: Results ↗NPPE program: Pass or Fail ↗

If you fail: the mastery report

If you pass, you only learn that you passed. If you fail, you get a mastery report showing how you did in each blueprint area, and the areas marked “Not mastered” or “Borderline mastered” are the ones to study before you try again. You don’t have to master every area to pass, and you can’t turn the report into a scaled score.

There’s no rescore. Your answers are recorded automatically as you go, and the candidate guide says a review wouldn’t change the outcome of a multiple-choice exam.

NPPE program: Pass or Fail ↗NPPE exam preparation and practice tests →

How many times can you take the NPPE?

Your regulator decides. The candidate guide says that “in most jurisdictions, candidates are allowed a maximum of four attempts.” APEGA, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) and Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO) publish their limits:

RegulatorAttempt limit
APEGA (Alberta)Up to 4
APEGS (Saskatchewan)4, then a 1-year wait
PGO (Ontario geoscientists)Up to 3

At APEGS, there’s no limit after the one-year wait and a fifth attempt. PGO charges the exam fee each time. If the NPPE is your last requirement, APEGA gives you one year from the Board of Examiners’ letter to pass, or your application is withdrawn and you apply again; to retake it there, you re-apply through myAPEGA. Some regulators set a time limit too, so check yours.

APEGS: National Professional Practice Exam ↗PGO: Professional Practice and Ethics Examination ↗Fees and rules by regulator →
Sources: NPPE program · APEGA · APEGS and 6 more. Checked October 2026.

Rules and fees can change, so check the official site before your test.

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