Free Practice Exams for UK Student Nurses
Self-marking nursing practice questions for revision, confidence-building and identifying gaps before university exams, simulations or placement.
Why use practice questions?
Practice questions can help student nurses move beyond passively re-reading notes. They give you a chance to retrieve knowledge, identify weak areas and revisit the reasoning behind each answer.
These free practice exams cover pharmacology , drug calculations, wound care, clinical reasoning and core adult-nursing topics. Each exam includes explanations to help you understand the thinking behind the answer—not simply whether you were right or wrong.
Use the exams as part of your wider revision plan, alongside university teaching, required reading, current national guidance and local clinical policy. The questions shuffle when you restart, so you can return to them as often as useful.
Revision tip: Retrieval practice—testing yourself and reviewing feedback—is a well-established learning approach. Use your results to identify topics to revisit, then return to the questions after further study.
Adult Nursing Practice Exam
Practise clinical reasoning with questions covering ABCDE assessment, recognition of deterioration, pharmacology and physiological frameworks.
Student Nurse Drug Calculations Practice
Practise dosage calculations and medication-administration maths with randomised scenarios, feedback and step-by-step rationales.
General Student Nurse Practice Exam
A broad assessment covering medical-surgical principles, clinical reasoning and essential nursing frameworks for revision and placement preparation.
Wound Care Practice Quiz
Review tissue viability topics including the TIME framework, dressing considerations, ABPI awareness, infection recognition and escalation.
Nursing Pharmacology Practice Quiz
Test your knowledge of drug classifications, mechanisms of action, adverse effects, monitoring and nursing considerations.
Use your results to guide revision
Restart an exam to receive a shuffled question order. Focus on topics you miss, revisit the relevant guide or lecture material, then return later to check your progress.
For educators, libraries and nursing societies
These practice exams are free to access and are designed to support student revision, reflection and identification of learning needs. Nursing lecturers, subject librarians, practice-learning teams and student societies are welcome to share this page with students or include it in relevant resource lists.
The questions are designed for UK student nurses and should support—not replace—university teaching, local policy, current national guidance, medicines information or direct clinical supervision.
For resource-sharing queries, corrections or feedback, please contact contact@thestudentnurse.co.uk .