1.2 Application, Fees, ATT, and Pearson VUE

Two applications, two payees, one license

Connecticut pharmacist licensure by examination is a dual-track process. One file lives at the Commission of Pharmacy / DCP. The other lives in your NABP e-Profile. Neither file replaces the other. Candidates who pay NABP and skip DCP, or who mail DCP a check and assume that “registers” them for the MPJE, stall in eligibility.

Track 1 — Connecticut Application for Pharmacist License by Examination

DCP’s Pharmacist License by Examination Instructions (April 2025) and the companion Pharmacist by Score Transfer Instructions (also April 2025) both point to the same state form: the Application for Pharmacist License by Examination. Score-transfer candidates do not get a different jurisprudence exam; they still sit the MPJE – CT version. DCP even uses the examination application for the score-transfer path.

Complete the application online at elicense.ct.gov or print it and mail it to License Services at the address on the form. The state fee is a nonrefundable $200, paid by check or money order payable to “Treasurer, State of Connecticut.” Do not make that check payable to NABP, Pearson VUE, or “Commission of Pharmacy.”

As part of the same application you must include a recent photograph of yourself, signed on the front or back. DCP’s examination-instructions page adds passport-style expectations: color photo taken within the last six months, full head from the top of the hair to the bottom of the chin, head centered, facing the camera. The college of pharmacy from which you have graduated or will graduate must complete section VIII. Intern hours are not a self-attachment: the college of pharmacy and/or the state board where you obtained the hours must verify and seal a minimum of 1,500 hours directly to the Connecticut Commission of Pharmacy.

Questions on the state application go to the Commission at DCP.PharmacistLicense@ct.gov or 860-713-6070 — not to Pearson VUE.

Track 2 — NABP eligibility and exam purchase

Separately, create (or log in to) an NABP e-Profile, read the current NAPLEX/MPJE Candidate Application Bulletin, and apply for MPJE eligibility for Connecticut. After the board’s eligibility process completes, a purchase link appears in Exam Services. Purchase the exam, then wait for the ATT.

NABP — not DCP — confirms eligibility for a listed set of jurisdictions and charges those boards an extra $85 eligibility-processing fee. Connecticut is not on that NABP-processed list (the published list includes Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wisconsin). For Connecticut, the board uses its own eligibility process. Do not budget an extra $85 NABP processing fee simply because other states charge it.

NABP’s bulletin fee schedule (effective March 1, 2024, and still the figures NABP and college licensure pages quote in 2026) is:

DCP’s April 2025 score-transfer knowledge-base article still lists “MPJE – CT version ($200)” and a stale NAPLEX ($485) figure. Other DCP license pages have, at various times, shown still other NABP numbers (for example $250 for the Connecticut MPJE). Those listings are older than the bulletin. Teach and budget the bulletin figures: $100 + $170 = $270 to NABP per MPJE jurisdiction, plus the separate $200 state application. DCP’s own examination-instructions page is more careful: it now says to see applicable fee information on nabp.pharmacy rather than reprinting an NABP number. When DCP and NABP disagree on NABP’s price, NABP’s bulletin controls NABP’s price. When they describe the state $200 application, DCP controls that fee.

NAPLEX has its own NABP eligibility and purchase fees; do not collapse NAPLEX and MPJE into one payment. If you are a new graduate you will typically purchase both. If you are a score-transfer candidate whose NAPLEX is already sitting at NABP, you still purchase the Connecticut MPJE.

Authorization to Test, scheduling, and the door policy

Once eligibility is granted and you have purchased the exam, Pearson VUE emails an Authorization to Test. DCP describes the ATT as containing (1) examination dates, (2) a test authorization number, (3) a candidate identification number, and (4) an expiration date. NABP’s “avoid examination roadblocks” guidance treats granted eligibility as valid for one year; the ATT itself has its own expiration window printed on the letter. Do not schedule from memory — read the ATT.

After the ATT arrives, schedule at a Pearson Professional Center through Pearson VUE. Pearson’s NABP page allows rescheduling up to two business days before the appointment (confirm the current bulletin cut-off before you move a date). You will receive a Pearson confirmation email with the site, date, and time.

NABP’s test-day page requires you to arrive at least 30 minutes early. You must present one acceptable U.S. or Canadian government-issued photo ID that is current (not expired), actual (not a photocopy), and bears a recent recognizable photograph and your signature. Acceptable forms listed by NABP include a U.S. or Canadian passport, driver’s license (including licenses marked “Not for Federal Identification Use”), Secretary of State-issued U.S. state ID, qualifying temporary ID, and U.S. or Canadian military ID. The printed name on the ID must match the name on the ATT and NABP e-Profile, including first name, middle name, last name, and suffix, subject to the bulletin’s limited middle-name flexibility. Name mismatches are a common way to be turned away and forfeit a sitting.

At the center you will provide a digital signature and have a digital photograph taken. Before the items begin you have five minutes to read and agree to NABP’s examination nondisclosure agreement. You must select “agree” to proceed. You will also see an optional waiver authorizing NABP to share results with your college of pharmacy; sharing is optional and does not affect conferral of the degree.

Breaks, the clock, and the official Pre-MPJE

The MPJE has no scheduled breaks. If you leave the room, the 2.5-hour clock keeps running. Unscheduled restroom or stretch breaks therefore count against exam time. Plan fluids and meals so you do not donate 15 minutes of a 150-minute adaptive exam to the hallway.

NABP sells an official practice product, the Pre-MPJE. It is NABP’s exam, not this study guide and not a third-party bank. Current NABP specifications: 40 questions, 50-minute time limit, $90 per attempt, purchased from the e-Profile Practice Exams tile, with seven days after purchase to sit it. Pre-MPJE items are state-specific (a different set per jurisdiction). NABP limits the Pre-MPJE to once annually per jurisdiction. A scaled score is emailed after you finish. Use it as a timing and format rehearsal — and as a reminder that NABP treats even the practice exam as confidential, NDA-protected content. It does not replace studying Connecticut statutes.

A worked pairing of the two candidate types:

• New graduate. File the $200 DCP application with signed photo and college section VIII; have 1,500 hours sealed to the Commission; apply in e-Profile for NAPLEX and CT MPJE eligibility; pay NABP’s $100 + exam purchase for each exam; wait for each ATT; schedule Pearson VUE dates that leave recovery time if one result posts as Fail.
• Score-transfer pharmacist moving a NAPLEX result into Connecticut. File the same DCP examination application and $200 fee; still document 1,500 hours to the Commission; purchase only the CT MPJE through NABP (plus NAPLEX score-transfer mechanics as NABP then provides); sit the MPJE – CT version. Do not assume a prior state MPJE or a UMPJE pass substitutes for Connecticut’s form.