Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 1,500 original practice questions, weighted to NABP’s current MPJE Competency Statements — and it opens for enrollment soon as part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog. Join the notify list and we will email you when enrollment opens.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
The North Dakota MPJE is NABP’s Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination as administered for North Dakota pharmacist licensure: 120 questions in 2.5 hours at Pearson VUE — 100 scored plus 20 unscored pretest — mixing federal and North Dakota law with no distinction between them, reported pass/fail, with scores that do not transfer to other jurisdictions. PassProfessor’s North Dakota MPJE program, part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog, holds 1,500 original practice questions — an 800-question federal core intermixed with 700 North Dakota questions — weighted to NABP’s current Competency Statements, priced at $49, and opening for enrollment soon.
What is included in the North Dakota MPJE program?
A bank built the way the exam is built. The MPJE makes no distinction between federal and state questions, so neither does this bank: 800 federal-core questions and 700 North Dakota questions are intermixed in a single 1,500-question bank, and where a North Dakota rule differs from the federal rule, the North Dakota rule keys the answer — the same instruction NABP gives on the exam itself.
An explanation on every question. Every one of the 1,500 questions carries an explanation of why the keyed answer is right. Jurisprudence is a subject where the tempting wrong answer is usually the other jurisdiction’s rule or the federal default, and the explanation names the distinction instead of leaving you to guess at it.
Practice exams at the real exam’s shape. A full practice exam draws 100 scored questions — the scored length of the real exam — across the four competency areas at their published weights, inside the real 150-minute clock. Draws are generated fresh for each attempt, questions you have not seen come first, and you never sit the same generated exam twice. Practice exams are scored against a 70% practice benchmark — a preparation target only, because the real MPJE reports pass/fail and that benchmark is not the passing standard.
Drills by competency area. Work one area at a time — Licensure and Personnel, Pharmacist Practice, Dispensing Requirements, or Pharmacy Operations — and your results break down by area, so a weak area shows up in your practice data before it shows up on a score report.
The real exam at a glance
Current as of November 2026, per NABP’s MPJE program pages and Competency Statements and North Dakota Board of Pharmacy. Full detail — eligibility, application steps, retakes, test day — is in our North Dakota MPJE exam guide.
| Exam fact | North Dakota MPJE |
|---|---|
| Questions administered | 120 (100 scored + 20 unscored pretest, mixed in) |
| Time limit | 2.5 hours (150 minutes) |
| Format | Computer-based, multiple choice, at Pearson VUE |
| Federal vs. state questions | Intermixed with no distinction; each question is answered under the prevailing law of North Dakota |
| Scoring | Pass/fail. NABP does not publish a raw passing score, and no percentage of correct answers is the passing standard |
| Passing score | No numeric passing score is published for this exam — the result is reported as pass or fail |
| Attempts | Up to 5 per jurisdiction under NABP’s program rules; North Dakota law codifies no separate limit or waiting period (see the guide) |
| Fees | About $270 per attempt in NABP fees |
| Eligibility | Confirmed by the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy |
| Score transfer | MPJE scores are not transferable between jurisdictions — a North Dakota result applies to North Dakota licensure only |
How does the practice map to the real exam?
| NABP competency area | Share of the real exam | Practice questions in this program | Questions per full practice exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area 1 — Licensure and Personnel | 22% | 333 | 22 |
| Area 2 — Pharmacist Practice | 33% | 498 | 33 |
| Area 3 — Dispensing Requirements | 24% | 358 | 24 |
| Area 4 — Pharmacy Operations | 21% | 311 | 21 |
The federal half of every MPJE is the same body of law, and it is larger than most candidates expect. The shared 800-question federal core in this program covers the Controlled Substances Act framework end to end: the five schedules, the rule that Schedule II prescriptions never refill, the five-refills-in-six-months limit for Schedules III and IV, emergency oral Schedule II orders and the prescriber’s seven-day follow-up duty, partial fills, pharmacist-to-pharmacist transfers of Schedules III–V, DEA registration and Form 222/CSOS ordering, biennial inventories, theft and loss reporting, and disposal. It covers the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in the form the exam tests it — adulteration versus misbranding, generic substitution and Orange Book equivalence, container labeling, child-resistant packaging, Medication Guides and REMS programs, the three recall classes, expiration and beyond-use dating, DSCSA track-and-trace duties, and the line between 503A patient-specific compounding and 503B outsourcing facilities. It covers OBRA ’90 prospective drug review and counseling duties, USP <795>, <797> and <800> compounding standards, HIPAA’s treatment/payment/operations framework and breach-notification duties, and the personnel principles that hold in every state: the pharmacist-in-charge answers for the pharmacy’s compliance, technicians never counsel, and no dispensing happens when no pharmacist is on duty.
What North Dakota law does the exam test?
Half of what makes the North Dakota MPJE hard is that it is two bodies of law at once. The North Dakota half of this program is built on:
The North Dakota questions in this bank are grounded in primary North Dakota sources read first-hand: the pharmacy practice chapter (North Dakota Century Code Chapter 43-15), the prescription drug monitoring program chapter (Chapter 19-03.5), and the Board of Pharmacy rules (North Dakota Administrative Code Title 61), including the examination rule as amended effective January 1, 2024 and the 2025 legislation that added independent prescribing and therapeutic substitution as regimes of their own.
North Dakota’s monitoring program sits in its own code chapter and is administered by the Board of Pharmacy. Reporting is daily under the Board’s rule. The mandate architecture is profession-specific, and the exam tests exactly that: the monitoring statute itself imposes no duty to check the program, while the pharmacy rule binds pharmacists at initial dispensing — a report covering at least the preceding year, plus specified awareness triggers, with long-term-care and hospice exceptions. The physician, advanced-practice nurse, dentist, and podiatrist duties in neighboring rules belong to those professions and their boards, and the bank never merges them into a universal check rule. Gabapentin is Schedule V in North Dakota by statute, and it is program-reportable — candidates who learned it as an unscheduled drug elsewhere will miss both halves of that proposition.
Supervision ratios are codified, and they split by setting: one pharmacist to four technicians in retail and hospital practice, and one to five in closed-door settings. Telepharmacy is expressly outside the ratio — there, the cap is four remote sites per pharmacist. Counseling is mandatory-provide in North Dakota, on new prescriptions and on refills alike, performed by a pharmacist or an intern; technicians may only screen refills. The emergency-refill rule is the state’s most reliable trap: a one-time refill of up to a 30-day supply, with notice to the prescriber within a reasonable time afterward — the 72-hour figure found in older materials is superseded history, not current law. Substitution is permissive, with the lower-cost condition written into the statute, and there is no signature-line dispensing form; notice to the prescriber after dispensing an interchangeable biological product is due within two business days.
Records retention in North Dakota is strictly by record type — prescription files five years after filling, patient profiles at least five years from the last entry, administration records two years, protocol immunization records five years — and controlled-substance records carry no state year-count to memorize, however often secondary sources invent one. Loss or theft of controlled substances must be reported to the Board within one business day. The 2025 act created two authorities candidates must keep separate from ordinary dispensing: independent prescribing and therapeutic substitution, the latter with its own 24-hour electronic prescriber-notice rule that never merges with the biologics notice. Opioid figures that circulate for North Dakota — a 90 morphine-milligram-equivalent daily figure and a seven-day first-fill figure — are workers’ compensation payment limits only, not dispensing law.
What changes on March 1, 2027?
From March 1, 2027, NABP replaces the MPJE Competency Statements with a new Content Outline: Pharmacy and Pharmacist Practice 30%, Medication Use Process 30%, Regulatory Authority and Legal Obligations 20%, and Pharmacy Operations 20%. Every question in this bank is dual-tagged to both blueprints, so the program’s practice exams re-weight to the new outline when the change takes effect — the questions you practice stay the right questions, at the new weights. Candidates testing before March 1, 2027 prepare against the current Competency Statements, which is how the bank is weighted today.
How should you use this program?
Work the bank in three passes. First, take a full 100-question practice exam under the 150-minute clock to find your baseline — the per-area results show exactly where the points are being lost. Second, drill the weakest competency area in focused sets, reading the explanation for every item, right or wrong: each explanation states why the keyed answer is right, so a wrong drill answer becomes a rule learned rather than a guess missed. Third, return to full practice exams drawn fresh from the bank — questions you have not seen come first, so a rising score reflects broader coverage rather than memorized items. In the final week, shift the drill mix toward North Dakota law: it is the half of the exam that no national review book teaches, and it is where candidates who prepared generically lose the most ground.
What does the program cost?
The North Dakota MPJE program is $49 for the full bank — all 1,500 questions, full-length practice exams, and per-area drills. Enrollment opens soon; join the notify list and we will email you when it opens.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are on the North Dakota MPJE?
The exam administers 120 questions in 2.5 hours: 100 scored questions and 20 unscored pretest questions mixed in so they cannot be told apart. Your result rests on the 100 scored questions.
What score do you need to pass the North Dakota MPJE?
The MPJE is reported pass/fail against NABP’s passing standard. North Dakota’s current rule requires a passing score and states no number, and NABP does not publish a raw passing score — so no percentage, including the 70% benchmark this program uses in practice, is the passing standard.
Can an MPJE score transfer to another state?
No. MPJE scores are not transferable between jurisdictions. A pass for North Dakota supports North Dakota licensure only; licensing in another MPJE state means that state’s MPJE as well. (Score transfer belongs to the separate Uniform MPJE used in other jurisdictions.)
How many times can you take the North Dakota MPJE?
NABP’s program rules allow up to 5 attempts per jurisdiction, and North Dakota law codifies no separate attempt limit and no waiting period. Under the statute, a failed applicant may be re-examined at a regular Board meeting on payment of a further Board-set fee not to exceed $300. Each attempt also carries NABP fees of about $270.
Who confirms eligibility for the North Dakota MPJE?
Eligibility is confirmed by the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy — North Dakota is not one of the jurisdictions for which NABP confirms eligibility. You apply through NABP’s e-Profile, and eligibility must be confirmed before you can schedule at Pearson VUE.
Does the exam separate federal questions from North Dakota questions?
No — NABP states that no distinction is made in the examination between federal and state jurisprudence questions, and each question is answered under the prevailing law of North Dakota. Where the North Dakota rule and the federal rule differ, the North Dakota rule decides.
What does this program cover?
1,500 original practice questions: an 800-question federal core (controlled substances, FDA and dispensing law, compounding, privacy, licensure principles) intermixed with 700 questions on North Dakota pharmacy law, weighted to NABP’s four competency areas at 22/33/24/21 percent.
Does every question really have an explanation?
Yes — all 1,500 questions in this bank carry an explanation of why the keyed answer is right, verified from the bank files when this page was built.
What happens to my preparation when the blueprint changes in March 2027?
Nothing is lost. Every question is dual-tagged to the current Competency Statements and to the March 1, 2027 Content Outline, and the program re-weights its practice exams to the new outline — 30/30/20/20 — when the change takes effect.
Is this program affiliated with NABP or North Dakota Board of Pharmacy?
No. PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation provider and is not affiliated with NABP, Pearson VUE, or North Dakota Board of Pharmacy. The program provides practice questions for preparation; it is not a licensure requirement and confers no eligibility.
When can you enroll?
The program opens for enrollment soon at $49. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you when enrollment opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation provider, based in Salt Lake City, Utah and delivered entirely online. It is not affiliated with NABP, Pearson VUE, or North Dakota Board of Pharmacy, and this program is preparation only — it is not pre-licensing education, confers no eligibility, and does not replace the official sources. Exam facts on this page are stated as of November 2026 from NABP and North Dakota primary sources; confirm current requirements with NABP and North Dakota Board of Pharmacy before you apply.
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