Singapore Nursing Board

The Singapore Nursing Board (SNB) is the only regulatory authority for nurses and midwives in Singapore.

SNB has been administering Licensure Examinations (LE) for foreign trained nurses who have been offered employment in Singapore as Registered Nurses (RN) or Enrolled Nurses (EN). 

The SNB LE is designed to assess the candidates’ competencies and skills based on SNB’s Core Competencies and Generic Skills for Registered Nurses (RN) and Enrolled Nurses (EN) (2023). This is required to assure that foreign qualified nurses can perform safely and effectively as a RN or EN in Singapore.

Authorisation for SNB Licensure Examination

Candidates must have an offer of employment by an eligible healthcare provider (employer) in Singapore.  The employer Human Resources (HR) personnel will submit an application to SNB for you to sit for SNB LE.  After SNB has assessed your application and authorised you to sit for the LE, you will receive an Authorisation to Test (ATT) email from Pearson VUE.

Registration for LE Date/ Venue

Once you have received your Authorisation to Test email from Pearson VUE, you may proceed to create a login account by clicking 'Create Account' at the top of this page to schedule a date and venue for your LE.

The Authorisation to Test email will also include the period that you are authorised to sit for the LE. You can only schedule the LE date within this period.

You may wish to book your date/venue as soon as you have received your Authorisation to Test email. Payment is required to finalise your LE date/venue.

Please familiarise yourself with the registration and eligibility processes on the Pearson VUE websites.

Once you have made a booking, a confirmation email will be sent to you. Please print this booking confirmation and bring it with you (as well as other mandatory documents stated within the email) to the Test Center.

Proof of Identity

You must bring your PASSPORT as the primary IDENTIFICATION (ID) to the Test Center. 

• The Passport must be valid (unexpired), and not a photocopy or electronic/ digitalized version or captured on camera.
• The Passport must be government issued and from your country of citizenship and the information on the Passport must be written in English. 
• The Passport must include details of your full name, date of birth, recent recognizable photo, and your signature. 
• The full name and the details on your Passport that your employer used to register you for the SNB Licensure Examination must match exactly the details on the Passport that you will bring on the Test Day. 
• If you fail to bring your valid Passport on the Test Day, you will be denied the opportunity to sit for the examination and the examination fees will be forfeited.

Non-Disclosure Agreement

At the beginning of the Examination, you are required to accept a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), which you must accept within 5 minutes. If you do not accept the NDA within 5 minutes or choose not to accept the NDA your examination will terminate, and you won’t be able to continue with the examination.

Examination Information

Following the NDA is a short tutorial which provides an overview of how to navigate within the examination environment on the computer.

SNB LE consists of multiple-choice questions, which must be completed within 60 minutes (one hour). No further time extension is allowed.

An on-screen calculator will be available to you during the Examination.

Release of Examination Results

The SNB LE results will be processed and released to your prospective employers, who will then inform you of the outcome. Pearson VUE will not release the results of SNB LE to you.