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NLE May 2022 Results: Highest Passing Rate Since 1996

Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jul 6
3 min

NLE May 2022 Results: Highest Passing Rate Since 1996

The result of the May 2022 Philippine Nurse Licensure Examinations (PNLE) has finally been released, and so far, the numbers are looking pretty good. A total of 9,729 aspiring nurses took the exam last May 29 and 30, 6,616 of which have successfully passed. This is equivalent to a 68.00% passing rate, which is a 3.35 percentage point increase versus last year’s first semester passing rate. 2021’s first semester NLE saw a mere 7,746 takers on July 3 and 4, 5,008 of which have

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Number of New Filipino RNs Bounce Back in 2019

Karla Yu

Mar 5, 2020
3 min

Number of New Filipino RNs Bounce Back in 2019

Something good this way comes for the Philippine nursing industry.

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NLE June 2019 Results: More Passers, Fewer Takers

Karla Yu

Jul 15, 2019
3 min

NLE June 2019 Results: More Passers, Fewer Takers

The Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the results of the Nurse Licensure Exams that took place last June 2 and 3, 2019. This year’s first semester results shows a higher number of passers versus the June 2018 NLEs, with June 2019 accumulating 5,059 passers whereas June 2018 only had 4,326 passers. June 2019's pass rate of 52.20% is also a significant improvement versus June 2018’s, as this is equivalent to an 8.38% point jump compared to last year’s 42.82% p

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jul 5, 2016
1 min

Half-Million RNs in the Last 18 Years

There had been 556,702 Registered Nurses in the Philippines in the last 18 years , from April 1996 to May 2014. That's the number of passers in the country's nursing board exams , officially called the Nurse Licensure Exams (NLE) . There were a total of 1,311,708 exam takers, which means that the 18-year period posted a 42.4% passing rate . The number of takers started to rise in 2004, when there were more than 13,000 examinees, from the previuos year's 7,000. It went on to r

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Why Hiring PTs for the US is 20x More Difficult than Recruiting Nurses

Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Mar 5, 2016
3 min

Why Hiring PTs for the US is 20x More Difficult than Recruiting Nurses

Yes, nowadays, hiring PT's or OT's (when we say PTs in this article, we also mean Occupational Therapists) for the U.S., and for that matter, other countries, is 20 times more difficult than hiring Filipino nurses. There are 3 major reasons why this is so: 1. There are fewer PT graduates than nurse graduates, and this can be seen from the decreasing number of takers in the PTLE (Physical Therapy Licensure Exam). In the last 9 years (from 2001 to June 2009), there were 538, 8

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jun 13, 2015
1 min

NLE of May 2015 has Fewest Number of Takers, and with one of the Highest Passing Rates

The NLE (Nurse Licensure Exams), of May 2015 has earned two distinctive records: it's the exam month with the fewest number of takers in the last 11 years, and the exam month with the second highest passing rate since December 2004. Passing rate is the number of passers divided by the number of takers. In the May 2015 NLE, there were 17,891 takers, out of whom 9,707 passed. The number of takers is the fewest since December 2004, when there were 12,100 exam takers. The passing

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So, Where in the World are All The Nurses?

Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jan 16, 2015
2 min

So, Where in the World are All The Nurses?

If you take all the NLE (Nurse Licensure Exams) data from 2000 to 2008 (click here for data), you will find out that there had been 224,977 registered nurses for that 8 year-period. Where have these RN's all gone? They couldn't have been all employed by the Philippines' medical clinics or hospitals. Among the more than 2,300 hospitals in the Philippines, there couldn't be a need for that hundred-thousand nurses. So, where are they? No one know for sure. Most of them could

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Dec 13, 2014
1 min

November 2014 Nurse Exams has one of the Highest Passing Rates

The results are out for the country's board exam for nurses, and it looks like the exams has one of the highest passing rates in many years. Officially known as NLE (Nurse Licensure Examination), the November 2014 exams had 15,292 passers, out of 26,690 takes, or a passing rate of 57.3%. The NLE with the highest passing rate was in November 1998, when the passing rate was 57.5% (4,724 passers, out of 8,209). For details, please refer here. The NLE is administered by the PRC (

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jun 6, 2014
1 min

May 2014 Board Exams Has 38.5% Passing Rate; one of the "Most Difficult"

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that there were 11, 255 passers in the most recently held Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) conducted in 11 cities around the country in May 2014. There were 29,188 takers in that last Nursing board exams, which means a passing rate of 38.5%, one of the lowest passing rates in the last 18 years of the NLE. Still the "Most Difficult" NLE exam was in December 2013, which had a passing rate of 30.9%. #nle #prc #FilipinoNurse

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jul 7, 2013
1 min

June 2013 Board Exams Has Lowest Number of Passers since 2006

The Philippines' NLE (Nurse Licensure Examination) in June 2013 had 16,908 passers, the lowest since the NLE of June 2006, when there were 17,821 passers. The June 2013 NLE also had the fewest number of takers in the last 7 years, registering only 37,887, versus the 40,147 takers during the December 2006 NLE. The decrease could be attributed to the reduced number of students taking up the nursing course, beginning in 2009. The 43% passing rate (16,219 vs. 37,887) in the Decem

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December 2013 Nursing Board Exams is "Most Difficult"

Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jan 4, 2013
1 min

December 2013 Nursing Board Exams is "Most Difficult"

The lowest passing rate (number of passers divided by number of takers) in the Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam (NLE) in the last 18 years has been the one held in December 2013. The passing rate was 30.9% (10,977 passers vs. 35,475 total takers). the lowest since the April 1996 NLE. The second lowest passing rate was in December 2011, when there were 22,760 passers, as against 67,095 takers, or a passing rate of 33.9%. The most recent NLE was also "difficult " . Done in May

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Jul 23, 2012
1 min

June 2012 Nurse Exams Has 27,823 Passers, and the Fewest Number of Takers in the Last Six Years

The Nurse Licensure Exams (NLE) in June 2012 produced 27,823 passers, out of 60,985 exam-takers, or a 45.29% passing rate. The results were announced by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) seven weeks after the exams were conducted in 15 cities in the country. The number of takers (60,985) was the lowest since December 2006, when there were only 40,147 examinees. After that year, the number of examinees swelled up, the highest being in November 2009, when there were

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Aug 4, 2010
1 min

37,679 Pass July 2010 Nursing Board Exams

There are 37, 000 plus new registered nurses in the Philippines. The country's PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) announced that out of 91, 008 examinees who took the NLE for 2 days last July, 37, 679 passed, or 41.4% of the examinees. The two-day exams, conducted in 11 cities in the Philippines, is the first for this year. The second one is going to be given in December 19 and 20. The July 2010 exams have the following distinction, compared with the previous (starting

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Abba Personnel Services Inc.

Dec 23, 2009
1 min

November 2009 Nurse Board Exams Sets New Records

The November 2009 Philippines’ Nursing Licensure Exams (NLE) has established many records of sorts, as follows: 1. It has the most number of takers, 94,462 of them, in the history of the NLE. The next highest number of takers was in the NLE of December 2008, when 88,649 took the twice a year exams. 2. It has the lowest percentage of passing, with only 39.73% of takers passing (37,527) the exams, which makes it the “most difficult “NLE so far. The second lowest was the NLE o

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