Head to head

RemoteNurse vs UWorld NCLEX

In 2025, 47.3% of first-time internationally educated candidates passed the NCLEX-RN, against 86.7% of first-time US-educated candidates. Repeat internationally educated candidates passed at 30.5%, so a second attempt is materially harder. Here is what UWorld NCLEX publishes, with sources and dates.

UWorld is the bank most people mean when they say question bank, and we are the smaller product arguing for a narrower job. Their bank scales with the access window you buy. Our Plus plan includes a 2,600-question bank and four fixed 100-question practice forms; compare the features that fit your study needs, not a promise of exam equivalence.

Facts last checked 15 September 2026

What do NCLEX pass rates show for international nurses?

In 2025, first-time internationally educated candidates passed the NCLEX-RN at 47.3%, against 86.7% for first-time US-educated candidates.
source · read 15 September 2026
Of first-time internationally educated candidates educated in the Philippines, 22,793 sat the NCLEX-RN in 2025 and 10,433 passed, a rate of 45.8%.
source · read 15 September 2026
Repeat internationally educated candidates passed at 30.5% in 2025, so a second attempt is materially harder than a first.
source · read 15 September 2026

What does UWorld NCLEX cost and include?

UWorld NCLEX

A long-established NCLEX question bank sold in fixed access windows, with review videos, flashcards and adaptive tests.

Question-bank plans run from $139 for 30 days to $449 for 730 days, with book bundles from $184 to $494 and self-assessments at $25 each, or $100 for all six.
source · read 15 September 2026
Publishes bank sizes from 2,600+ questions on the shortest plan to 3,100+ on longer ones, including 600+ next generation items. The bank you get is tied to the length of window you buy.
Their own claim · source · read 15 September 2026
States that 98% of users who completed at least 75% of the question bank passed first time. That figure is theirs and is conditioned on completing three quarters of the bank.
Their own claim · source · read 15 September 2026
The free trial is 50 practice questions, valid for seven days, with no credit card required. The same page is headlined as offering 120+ free questions, which is the count across its free practice pages rather than the trial.
source · read 15 September 2026
Runs an educator-facing page about internationally educated nurses. It attributes to CGFNS, now trading as TruMerit, that 51% of VisaScreen applicants in 2024 were educated in the Philippines, down from 60%, across 24,733 applications; that is their page reporting a third party, which we have not checked at source.
Their own claim · source · read 15 September 2026
That page sells to schools, employers and recruiters, offering educator dashboards and institutional licensing. It is not a place an individual nurse buys anything.
source · read 15 September 2026

What we could not verify

Pass guarantee. We found none on the pages we read. That is not the same as confirming there is none.
Support hours. No timezone or response window is published on the pages we read, so we cannot say what an overseas candidate should expect.

How does RemoteNurse differ?

Every flashcard names the page it came from, and states a number only where that page states it. A build check reads all 140 and fails if one asserts a figure its cited source does not contain.
The question bank covers the eight client-needs categories in the 2026 RN plan. Our fixed 100-question practice forms include three six-item case studies; the NCLEX itself is variable-length CAT, so the forms are not full exam simulations.
We publish no pass rate, because we have no outcome data. A pass rate from a company's own students who finished its own programme is not a rate you can apply to yourself.
The licensure tracker covers the part before the exam: credentials evaluation, board application, the Authorization to Test, scheduling. It holds what your own board told you rather than restating rules that differ by board.
The free bank sample contains twenty-five fixed questions allocated across the eight client-needs categories using 2026 plan midpoints. The NCLEX category proportions can vary from exam to exam, and this sample is separate from the no-sign-up simulator.

Who should not choose RemoteNurse?

You are still in a US nursing program. UWorld is what your school's teaching is likely built around, and matching it has real value.
Volume is your plan. They publish up to 3,100+ questions and 600+ next generation items; we ship 2,600 and four exams.
You want a two-year window. Theirs runs to 730 days and we do not sell anything like it.

Common questions

What do NCLEX pass rates show for international nurses?

In 2025, first-time internationally educated candidates passed the NCLEX-RN at 47.3%, against 86.7% for first-time US-educated candidates.

What does UWorld NCLEX cost and include?

UWorld NCLEX: A long-established NCLEX question bank sold in fixed access windows, with review videos, flashcards and adaptive tests. Question-bank plans run from $139 for 30 days to $449 for 730 days, with book bundles from $184 to $494 and self-assessments at $25 each, or $100 for all six.

Who should not choose RemoteNurse?

You are still in a US nursing program. UWorld is what your school's teaching is likely built around, and matching it has real value. Volume is your plan. They publish up to 3,100+ questions and 600+ next generation items; we ship 2,600 and four exams. You want a two-year window. Theirs runs to 730 days and we do not sell anything like it.