Free NBE practice test
Ten original questions for the National Board Examination in funeral service, weighted the way the real section is. Answer them, get scored straight away, and find out which content domains are actually costing you — which is the only part of a practice score worth acting on.
Pick your section
The NBE is sat as two separate sections, and they fail people at different rates. Sciences is the harder of the two — most candidates still pass it first time, but it accounts for far more retakes than Arts does.
No account, no card, no email to begin. Takes about five minutes.
How this test is put together
The NBE is sat as two separate sections, Arts and Sciences, each 170 multiple-choice items in 170 minutes, of which 150 are scored. The domains inside each section are not weighted evenly, and that is the single most useful thing to know before you build a study plan. Embalming alone is 62 of the 150 scored Sciences items. Funeral arranging and directing is 51 of the Arts items.
So the ten questions above are not a random grab. They are apportioned across the domains in the same proportions the real section uses, which means a weak result in a heavily-weighted domain matters more than the same result in a light one. The breakdown you get at the end reflects that, and points you at one domain rather than nine.
Why ten questions can't tell you if you'll pass
Plenty of prep sites will hand you a short quiz and a confident percentage chance of passing. That number is invented. A ten-item sample has an enormous margin of error against a 150-item scored section — you could get eight right on a good draw and six on a bad one with identical knowledge.
What a short, correctly-weighted test can do is sort your domains from strongest to weakest. That ranking is stable enough to act on even when the score isn't, and it is the thing that changes what you open your textbook to tonight. That is what this test gives you, and it is deliberately all it claims.
What to do with the result
Take your weakest domain and work it until the reasoning feels automatic, rather than spreading attention evenly across everything. Read the explanations properly: for each question you missed, the point is not the letter but why the three distractors are wrong. The NBE writes them to be plausible practices borrowed from the wrong context, so being able to rule them out is what separates knowing the material from recognising an answer.
When you want more than ten, the practice questions by domain pages cover all nine domains with worked examples, and a free account keeps track of what you've answered and gives you a readiness estimate that updates as you go. The full 900-question bank and timed mock exams are on the paid plan.
Common questions
Do I need an account to take the free NBE practice test?
No. You can pick a section, answer all ten questions and see your score without signing up or entering a card. An email is only needed to unlock the per-domain breakdown and the written explanations.
How many questions is the free practice test?
Ten, weighted to the official NBE blueprint for whichever section you pick. The free pool is deliberately small, so retaking the same section will repeat some of the questions — taking the other section gives you an entirely different set.
Are these real NBE exam questions?
No, and no legitimate prep resource has them. Every question is original, written to the public content outlines and standard funeral-service textbooks, and checked for a single defensible answer with a real citation.
Will the free test tell me if I'm going to pass?
No, and be sceptical of anything that claims to. Ten questions is far too small a sample to predict a 150-item scored section. What it can honestly show you is which domains you're weakest in, which is the part that changes what you study tomorrow.
Which section should I take, Arts or Sciences?
If you only take one, take Sciences. It has the higher first-time failure rate of the two, and embalming alone accounts for 62 of its 150 scored items. If you're retaking a section, take the one you're retaking.
About these questions
Every item is original, written to the public content outlines and standard funeral-service textbooks, and blind-checked for one defensible answer with a real citation. None are real exam items and none are copied from another company's bank. MortuaryPrep is an independent study aid and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The Conference, ABFSE, or Pearson VUE.