Welcome! Arriving on this page means you are well on your way to scheduling your Inspire Global Assessments CBA assessment.

What’s Inspire Global Assessments?

Inspire Global Assessments provides a two-part competency assessment for internationally-educated health practitioners (IEPs) - including health care assistants, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, and psychiatric nurses – who hope to practice in the provinces of British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island, Canada. Regulators use our assessment service to help determine:

• if an internationally educated candidate has competencies that are substantially equivalent to an entry-level practitioner in that role;
• any competence gaps that require supplementary education or training;
• an alternate profession/role for which the applicant has demonstrated requisite competencies.

Learn more about Inspire Global Assessments here: www.inspireassessments.org.

What’s the CBA?

The CBA is one of two Inspire Global Assessments assessment components. It’s a 3-5 hour, proctored, computer-based assessment. You can take the assessment at one of more than a hundred testing centres in 60 countries in the world by clicking on the scheduling buttons on this site.

The CBA seeks to assess your knowledge of the skills and competencies required to enter practice in the health practitioner role you desire. 

The assessment is made up of gradually unfolding cases that take you through the step-by-step process of clinical thinking and decision making. There is no pass or fail.  Rather, the assessment is aimed at identifying strengths and gaps.  Your results will not be sent to you until you have completed the Simulation Lab Assessment.

Scheduling your Exam

To schedule a CBA, you must have received a confirmation email from Inspire Global Assessments.  Please contact info@inspireassessments.org if you have not yet received your confirmation email.

Most Inspire Global Assessments CBA exams must be taken at a Prometric Testing Centre, with limited options for remote proctoring – currently remote proctoring is in place for the Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) CBA only. Please click here to schedule your exam.

Do review the preparatory resources available on the Inspire Global Assessments website here: How To Prepare

Schedule Appointment

Inspire Global Assessments Computer-based Assessment (CBA) Important Notice!

Before scheduling your assessment:
To take the CBA, you must already be registered with the Inspire Global Assessments If you aren’t registered yet, please visit https://www.inspireassessments.org/ to learn about the registration process.

If you don’t know if you’re registered, or have lost your CBA Eligibility Notice with the Inspire Global Assessments Registration Number that it contained, please contact Inspire Global Assessments by email at: info@inspireassessments.org, or by phone at 604-742-6376 or toll free at 1-833-742-6376 (Canada only)

Testing Accommodations
At the time of registering with Inspire Global Assessments, we asked you if you require any testing accommodations. If you requested one, you should also have received a notice from Inspire Global Assessments indicating whether or not your request for accommodations was approved.  If it was approved, Inspire Global Assessments will have already contacted Prometric to confirm your accommodation eligibility.

If you forgot to request an accommodation and feel that you require one, you must NOT schedule your CBA until you have had your request for an accommodation approved by Inspire Global Assessments. To request an accommodation, please contact Inspire Global Assessments. If you wait to request your accommodation until arriving at your scheduled assessment, you will be DENIED the accommodation.  Attendants at the assessment do NOT have the authority to grant accommodations.

Payment
No payment is due upon scheduling unless you are rescheduling.

Ready to Schedule Your Test?
If you’ve received your CBA Eligibility Notice from Inspire Global Assessments, you’re ready to proceed!  Please read the information contained in your Confirmation Notice – it has your Inspire Global Assessments Registration Number in it. You will need that number to schedule your CBA.  If any of the information on your CBA Eligibility Notice is incorrect or if the information has changed, please contact Inspire Global Assessments directly.

Scheduling Online
In order to schedule online, you must provide an e-mail address. Prometric will send you an e-mail confirming your appointment. If you do not have an e-mail address, please call the appropriate Regional Registration Center.

Reschedule/Cancel Policy
If you wish to change your exam date or time and avoid any associated fees, you must do so 30 days or more prior to your appointment.  This can be done using the following option:

Go to Prometric’s Reschedule/Cancel option on this Web site.  The Web is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  A fee will be applied to any cancellations or rescheduling made between 2 and 29 days prior to your scheduled assessment date.

Should a candidate choose to reschedule or cancel up to two days prior to the scheduled date, the candidate will forfeit all exam fees.  The candidate must contact Inspire Global Assessments directly to reschedule in this instance only. If cancelling or rescheduling less than 48 hours before your scheduled assessment only, contact Inspire Global Assessments directly.

What to Bring to the Testing Center
You MUST bring two valid, government-issued pieces of identification, at least one of which must have your photograph and signature.  Valid ID includes a passport, driver’s license, health card, national ID, military ID, etc.  For a full list of eligible ID, please visit: https://www.inspireassessments.org/. If you are taking the assessment outside of your country of citizenship, you must present a valid passport. If you are testing within your country of citizenship, you must present either a valid passport, driver's license, national ID or military ID. The identification document must be in Latin characters.

Failure to bring and present appropriate identification as described above will result in you being denied entry to the exam. You will be turned away, and forfeit all fees paid to date. You will be permitted to reschedule – rescheduling fees will apply.

All other personal items, including phones, smart watches, notebooks, pens, pencils, calculators, backpacks, purses, wallets, food and drink must be locked in a locker for test security purposes, so please limit what you bring to the testing center.

What Time to Arrive at the Testing Center
Plan to arrive 30 minutes before the scheduled appointment to allow time for check-in procedures. If you arrive late, you will not be allowed to test and you will forfeit the entire assessment fee. You will be permitted to reschedule – a rescheduling fee will apply.