NHA Certified EKG Technician (CET) Exam — exam facts
United States
Sources below were read between 2026-09-03 – 2026-09-24
| Administering body | National Healthcareer Association (NHA) — exam delivered by a PSI testing center, a live remote proctoring provider, or the candidate's own school or employer NHA states that where live remote proctoring is used, the proctoring provider is selected for the candidate at registration. Source: NHA — Candidate Handbook (PDF, updated 06/01/2026) (2026-09-03) |
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| Questions | 120 questions (100 scored, 20 unscored pretest) 100 scored items plus 20 unscored pretest items, per NHA's test plan. Source: NHA — Certified EKG Technician (CET) Test Plan (job analysis 2017, PDF) (2026-09-24) |
| Time limit | 120 minutes Source: NHA — Certified EKG Technician (CET) Test Plan (job analysis 2017, PDF) (2026-09-24) |
| Passing score | Scaled score of 390 on a 200–500 scale This is a scaled score, not a percentage. NHA weights items by difficulty and does not publish the raw-to-scaled conversion, so it cannot be restated as a percentage or as a number of correct answers. Score reports additionally rate each content area as above, near or below the passing standard. Source: NHA — Candidate Handbook (PDF, updated 06/01/2026) (2026-09-03) |
| Fees | Not checked NHA sells the exam through its store, which renders prices only in the browser; the page's HTML read on the retrieval date carries no amount, so PrepPass states none. |
| Languages offered | English English only, stated affirmatively in the handbook rather than merely absent from it: NHA does not provide translated forms, translation aids or interpreters. Source: NHA — Candidate Handbook (PDF, updated 06/01/2026) (2026-09-03) |
Change log
- 2026-09-24Fact sheet created from NHA's test plan and certification page; the body, passing rule and language rows are NHA's shared Candidate Handbook facts, re-read on 2026-09-24.