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Candidate
Knowledge Base
Each Knowledge Base entry offers a concise response to a common question. For more comprehensive guidance, consult the Candidate FAQs, which provide additional detail by topic.
New to ICVA, or not sure where to begin? Start here. You're a candidate if you have applied — or intend to apply — for the NAVLE, the NAVLE Self-Assessment, the VEA, a Species-Specific Exam, or the Wisconsin Laws and Rules Exam. (If you're a licensing board, veterinary school, or ICVA volunteer, jump to the Partner Support Center instead.)
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Getting Started
ICVA administers several distinct assessments, and most candidates only ever take one or two of them.
- Eligibility, NAVLE, NAVLE Self-Assessment, SSE (Species Specific Exam), VEA, Wisconsin
Your ICVAID is the unique identifier ICVA uses to track you across every process you'll touch as a candidate
- ICVA ID, Portal
Your Access Code is the unique identifier used to access your Candidate Dashboard.
- Access Code, Dashboard, ICVA ID
NAVLE - Accommodations & Non-Standard Testing Conditions
ICVA is committed to following the principles of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by providing equal exam access to all candidates.
- Accommodations, Deadlines, NAVLE
Available accommodations include timing formats with more frequent breaks....
- Accommodations, Deadlines, NAVLE
- Accommodations, Dashboard, NAVLE
- Accommodations, Deadlines
- Canada, Eligibility, NAVLE
- Accommodations, Retake Policy
NAVLE - Eligibility & Applying
There are two main eligibility paths. Path one is through an AVMA Council on Education (COE) accredited program.
- Eligibility, NAVLE
- Eligibility, NAVLE
- Eligibility, NAVLE
- Application, Deadlines, NAVLE
- Application, Deadlines, NAVLE
- Application, NAVLE, Scheduling
- Application, NAVLE
- Eligibility, Licensing Boards, NAVLE
- Canada, Eligibility, Licensing Boards, NAVLE
- Exam Day, ID, Name, NAVLE
Students enrolled in an AVMA Council on Education (COE) accredited veterinary program must have an expected graduation date that falls within 10 months of the end of the NAVLE testing window for which they apply. If your anticipated graduation date changes after you have submitted your application, your veterinary school must notify the ICVA directly of your new anticipated graduation date so that your eligibility and available options can be reviewed. Please note that NAVLE fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable. To ensure fairness for all candidates and to comply with established application deadlines, refunds, fee transfers, extensions, and testing window changes cannot be granted. If your application is not approved, you are determined to be ineligible after initial approval, or you do not sit for the examination during the testing window for which you applied, you will be required to submit a new application and pay the full examination fee for a future testing window. Please note, if you do not test during a specific testing window, it is not counted as one of the five NAVLE attempts for the purposes of the NAVLE retake policy.
- Attempts, Fees, Graduation Date, NAVLE, Retake Policy
NAVLE - Format, Blueprint & Prep Resources
- Exam Day, NAVLE
- Exam Day, NAVLE, Prometric
- NAVLE, Preparing for the NAVLE
- NAVLE, Preparing for the NAVLE
- NAVLE, Preparing for the NAVLE
- Exam Day, NAVLE
- Exam Day, NAVLE, Prometric
NAVLE - Scheduling & Exam Day
- NAVLE, Prometric, Scheduling
- NAVLE, NBME, Permit, Prometric, Scheduling
- NAVLE, Prometric, Scheduling
- Appointment Confirmation, Exam Appointment, NAVLE, Permit, Prometric, Scheduling
- NAVLE, Prometric, Scheduling
- Exam Day, Prometric, Scheduling
- Exam Day, Prometric
- Exam Day, Grievances
NAVLE - Scoring, Retakes, Exam Security & Grievances
- Attempts, NAVLE, Scoring
- Fees, ICVA ID, Scoring
- Attempts, NAVLE, Retake Policy
- Attempts, Fees, Retake Policy
- Attempts, Exam Security, Fees, Retake Policy
- Exam Day, Exam Security
- Deadlines, Grievances, ICVA ID
NAVLE Self-Assessment (Practice Exam)
- NAVLE, NAVLE Self-Assessment
- Dashboard, ICVA ID, NAVLE Self-Assessment
- NAVLE Self-Assessment
- NAVLE, NAVLE Self-Assessment
- Fees, NAVLE Self-Assessment
- Accommodations, NAVLE, NAVLE Self-Assessment
- Fees, NAVLE Self-Assessment
Species Specific Exams
- Eligibility, Licensing Boards, SSE (Species Specific Exam)
- Eligibility, SSE (Species Specific Exam)
- Fees, Scheduling, SSE (Species Specific Exam)
- SSE (Species Specific Exam)
- Licensing Boards, SSE (Species Specific Exam)