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North Dakota Physical Therapy Jurisprudence Practice Test

Open book law practice from North Dakota's practice act and Title 61.5 rules, with the section on every answer.

Which term does NDCC 43-26.1-01 make synonymous with "physical therapist"?

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The real exam, as the board and its rules describe it

Who takes it
Every applicant for a license, by examination or by endorsement. It must be passed before a license is issued.
Where
Inside the board's online license application.
Format
Open book, answered from the Rules and Regulations and the ND PT Practice Act.
Compact privilege
A separate Juris Prudence Exam on the board's compact page, only for those applying for the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact.
Not published
The number of questions, a time limit and a pass mark.

Checked October 16, 2026 against the board's Initial Application Instructions for physical therapists and assistants, its compact page and NDAC 61.5-02-02-01. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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All 72 questions

Definitions, the board and its history 11

  • According to the history in NDAC 61.5-01-01-01, in which year did the legislative assembly allow physical therapists to practice without a physician referral? NDAC 61.5-01-01-01
  • Before a consultation by telehealth, what does NDAC 61.5-01-02-01 require to be obtained and documented? NDAC 61.5-01-02-01
  • Can telehealth satisfy North Dakota's requirement for direct supervision? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • The governor appoints North Dakota's board members to staggered terms. How long is a term, and how many full terms in a row may one person serve? NDCC 43-26.1-02
  • Under general supervision in North Dakota, how may the supervising therapist be available to a physical therapist assistant? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • What does "direct supervision" require of the supervising physical therapist under NDCC 43-26.1-01? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • What follows when a North Dakota board member misses two consecutive annual meetings without reasons satisfactory to the board? NDAC 61.5-01-01-01
  • Which level of supervision does NDCC 43-26.1-01 define for treatment sessions in which a student physical therapist takes part in care? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • Which technique does North Dakota's definition of manual therapy name beside mobilization, manipulation and manual traction? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • Which term does NDCC 43-26.1-01 make synonymous with "physical therapist"? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • Who sits on the North Dakota board of physical therapy under NDCC 43-26.1-02? NDCC 43-26.1-02
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Licensure, examinations and fees 13

  • A military spouse with an active, unencumbered license from another jurisdiction may work at once in North Dakota. For how long is that practice privilege good while the application moves forward? NDAC 61.5-02-02-06
  • A therapist licensed in another state treats members of an athletic team that is competing in North Dakota. For how long in a calendar year does NDCC 43-26.1-07 exempt the therapist from licensure? NDCC 43-26.1-07
  • An applicant by endorsement has not practiced physical therapy for three or more years. Which is one way the board may have the applicant demonstrate competence? NDAC 61.5-02-02-02
  • At the board's discretion a foreign-educated applicant completes a supervised clinical practice. How many hours of preceptorship does NDAC 61.5-02-02-01 name? NDAC 61.5-02-02-01
  • Beside passing scores on the national examination, which examination must an applicant for a North Dakota license complete? NDAC 61.5-02-02-01
  • How many attempts does North Dakota allow an applicant whose examination scores are below four hundred? NDCC 43-26.1-05
  • NDCC 43-26.1-06 has the board license by endorsement a therapist in good standing in another jurisdiction. What must that jurisdiction's requirements be? NDCC 43-26.1-06
  • To whom does an applicant pay another examination fee each time the examination is repeated? NDAC 61.5-02-01-03
  • What does NDAC 61.5-02-03-01 say of the $200 application fee? NDAC 61.5-02-03-01
  • What is the greatest number of attempts NDCC 43-26.1-05 allows at the licensure examination? NDCC 43-26.1-05
  • What late renewal fee does NDAC 61.5-02-03-01 set for a North Dakota license? NDAC 61.5-02-03-01
  • Which licensure examination is the earliest that an applicant in the final semester may take under NDAC 61.5-02-01-04? NDAC 61.5-02-01-04
  • Who pays the costs of a criminal history record check that the North Dakota board requires? NDCC 43-26.1-05.1

Renewal, reinstatement and continuing competence 12

  • A former licensee has been unlicensed for more than one year but less than three years from the last renewal. What must be provided on reapplying? NDAC 61.5-02-02-05.1
  • A therapist licensed in North Dakota for the first time from another state lacks twenty-five units in the last two years. What does NDAC 61.5-03-03-01 require? NDAC 61.5-03-03-01
  • After a license has been expired for how long does NDCC 43-26.1-09 have its holder demonstrate competence to the board's satisfaction, for example under a restricted license? NDCC 43-26.1-09
  • By which date each year must a North Dakota physical therapy license be renewed before it expires? NDAC 61.5-02-02-05
  • How does North Dakota credit clinical instruction toward continuing competence? NDAC 61.5-03-02-02
  • How many continuing competence units does completing a physical therapy residency program equal in North Dakota? NDAC 61.5-03-02-02
  • How many units is an American Physical Therapy Association specialty certification or recertification worth in North Dakota? NDAC 61.5-03-02-02
  • May continuing competence units beyond the requirement be carried over to North Dakota's next reporting period? NDAC 61.5-03-01-02
  • What is North Dakota's continuing competence requirement for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants? NDAC 61.5-03-01-02
  • What share of licensees does the North Dakota board sample each year for evidence of the continuing competence they attested to? NDAC 61.5-03-03-01
  • Which of these earns no continuing competence credit under NDAC 61.5-03-02-01? NDAC 61.5-03-02-01
  • Within how many days must a North Dakota licensee report a name change to the board? NDCC 43-26.1-08

Supervising assistants and aides 12

  • A patient's relative asks a physical therapist assistant about the patient's prognosis. What does NDAC 61.5-05-01-02 direct? NDAC 61.5-05-01-02
  • After each visit by the supervising therapist, the record must show a documented conference with the assistant. Who completes that documentation? NDAC 61.5-05-01-02
  • How often must a physical therapist visit a patient whom a physical therapist assistant is treating in North Dakota? NDAC 61.5-05-01-02
  • Must the supervising therapist cosign a physical therapist assistant's documentation of care in North Dakota? NDCC 43-26.1-11
  • NDAC 61.5-05-01-05 caps the supportive personnel under one physical therapist at any one time. What is the cap? NDAC 61.5-05-01-05
  • The supervising physical therapist will not be available. What must that therapist do under NDAC 61.5-05-01-01? NDAC 61.5-05-01-01
  • Under which supervision does NDCC 43-26.1-11 ordinarily place a physical therapy aide? NDCC 43-26.1-11
  • What must all supportive personnel wear under NDAC 61.5-05-01-06? NDAC 61.5-05-01-06
  • When may a physical therapist assistant initiate or alter a treatment program in North Dakota? NDAC 61.5-05-01-02
  • When may supervision of a North Dakota physical therapy aide extend to general supervision? NDCC 43-26.1-11
  • When must the joint visit or conference between the supervising therapist and the physical therapist assistant take place? NDAC 61.5-05-01-02
  • Which documentation may a North Dakota physical therapist assistant not write? NDAC 61.5-05-01-02

Patient care, imaging, manual therapy and medications 12

  • By whom is diagnostic imaging that a North Dakota physical therapist orders interpreted, under the definition of practice in NDCC 43-26.1-01? NDCC 43-26.1-01
  • The diagnostic process reveals findings outside the scope of the physical therapist's knowledge, experience or expertise. What does NDCC 43-26.1-11 require? NDCC 43-26.1-11
  • North Dakota's patient care management section reserves three things to the physical therapist for every patient. Which is one of them? NDCC 43-26.1-11
  • Unless the law permits otherwise, what does NDCC 43-26.1-12 require before information about the therapist-patient relationship goes to a third party who is not involved in the patient's care? NDCC 43-26.1-12
  • What is needed before a North Dakota physical therapist administers a medication classified as a legend drug? NDAC 61.5-06-02-01
  • What may a North Dakota physical therapist not do with topical medications? NDCC 43-26.1-14
  • What must a North Dakota physical therapist communicate to the patient when obtaining informed consent? NDCC 43-26.1-11
  • What must the medical record show for medication administered to each patient under NDAC 61.5-06-02-01? NDAC 61.5-06-02-01
  • Which manual therapy may a North Dakota physical therapist assistant perform once the therapist has determined the assistant's education, training and skill? NDAC 61.5-03-04-01
  • Which of these qualifies a therapist for high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust manual therapy under NDAC 61.5-03-04-01? NDAC 61.5-03-04-01
  • Which physical therapist may order diagnostic imaging under NDCC 43-26.1-11.1? NDCC 43-26.1-11.1
  • Within how long must a physical therapist who ordered diagnostic imaging report the results to the patient's designated specialty or primary care provider? NDCC 43-26.1-11.1

Titles, discipline and penalties 12

  • A North Dakota licensee has direct knowledge of another person's illegal acts that appear to violate chapter 43-26.1 and does not tell the board. What is that failure? NDCC 43-26.1-13
  • Beside the criminal penalty, which civil remedy does NDCC 43-26.1-16 make available against violations? NDCC 43-26.1-16
  • Is substandard physical therapy care a ground for discipline in North Dakota when no actual injury to the patient is established? NDCC 43-26.1-13
  • North Dakota requires the letters "PT" to denote licensure. Which designations does NDAC 61.5-06-01-01 say should not be substituted for them? NDAC 61.5-06-01-01
  • What comes first in North Dakota's preferred order of credentials? NDAC 61.5-06-01-01
  • What must a North Dakota physical therapist with a doctoral degree do in order to use the title "doctor"? NDCC 43-26.1-15
  • What offense is a violation of NDCC chapter 43-26.1? NDCC 43-26.1-17
  • Which conduct about the licensure examination is a ground for discipline under NDCC 43-26.1-13? NDCC 43-26.1-13
  • Which designation should a physical therapist assistant student use up to the time of graduation? NDAC 61.5-06-01-01
  • Which of these must "adequate patient records" contain at a minimum under NDCC 43-26.1-13? NDCC 43-26.1-13
  • Who may submit a complaint to the North Dakota board about a licensee? NDCC 43-26.1-12
  • Whose standards of ethics, adopted in 2010, does NDAC 61.5-02-02-07 name? NDAC 61.5-02-02-07

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written from the two texts the North Dakota Board of Physical Therapy names for its open book Juris Prudence Exam (https://www.ndbpt.org/apply/pt_licensure.asp): the practice act and its rules. North Dakota Century Code chapter 43-26.1 was read on 2026-10-16 on the Legislative Assembly's site (https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t43c26-1.pdf). North Dakota Administrative Code Title 61.5, all thirteen chapters of its six articles, was read the same day on the same site (https://ndlegis.gov/information/acdata/html/61.5-01.html and the five articles after it). The board publishes no content outline, so the bank is spread over the subjects of the act and the rules. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the text of the statute or rule it cites, which is public law of the State of North Dakota. Nothing is taken from the board's Juris Prudence Exam, a study guide or another practice test.

How it works

Unofficial practice for North Dakota's open book Juris Prudence Exam, the law test inside the license application. Not affiliated with the North Dakota Board of Physical Therapy; every question is our own, from NDCC chapter 43-26.1 and NDAC Title 61.5.

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What is particular to North Dakota

One therapist supervises at most three supportive personnel, no more than two of them assistants, and sees an assistant's patient after a sixth visit or every thirty days. Licenses expire January 31 each year, with twenty-five continuing competence units every two years. A therapist with a clinical doctorate or board-approved training may order imaging.

  • An aide works under direct supervision, and the definition says telehealth does not meet it (NDCC 43-26.1-01).
  • Continuing competence units do not carry over, and a keynote speech or a meal earns none (NDAC 61.5-03).

Questions and answers

Does North Dakota have a physical therapy jurisprudence exam?

Yes. NDAC 61.5-02-02-01 lists completion of the juris prudence examination among the licensure requirements, and the board's application instructions say it must be passed before a license is issued.

Is the North Dakota jurisprudence exam open book?

Yes. The board's application instructions call it an open book exam, answered from the Rules and Regulations and the ND PT Practice Act, and say it is included in the online application.

How many questions are on the North Dakota jurisprudence exam?

The board publishes no question count, time limit or pass mark, so this page does not guess them. Its instructions name the practice act and the rules as the material to work from.

Do North Dakota compact privilege applicants take the same exam?

No. The board's compact page links a separate Juris Prudence Exam, which it says is only for those applying for the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact. Everyone else completes the one inside the license application.

Are these the real North Dakota jurisprudence exam questions?

No. They are unofficial practice written for this page from NDCC chapter 43-26.1 and NDAC Title 61.5. The North Dakota Board of Physical Therapy took no part, and none of its questions appear here.

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