Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Certification Examination — exam facts
United States (national certification)
Every source below was read on 2026-09-03
| 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) NHA states that pretest questions do not affect the score and that only the scored questions count towards it. Source: NHA — Test Plan for the Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam (2024 job analysis, PDF) (2026-09-03) |
| Time limit | 120 minutes NHA's CPT certification page restates the same allowance as a two-hour exam. Source: NHA — Test Plan for the Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam (2024 job analysis, PDF) (2026-09-03) |
| 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 |
NHA's store renders its prices client-side, so the price is visible to a human opening the linked product page but is absent from the page's HTML. The figure here was read from NHA's own store system on the retrieval date. An examination fee is charged for every attempt, so a retake costs another exam fee. Source: NHA store — Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam Application (2026-09-03) |
| 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
- 2026-09-03Fact sheet created from NHA's Candidate Handbook (updated 06/01/2026) and the CPT test plan. The passing rule is kept as NHA's scaled score and is not converted into a percentage anywhere.