After the TRCN PQE: Results, Certificate & Licence

Checking your PQE result

Once TRCN releases the results, you can check yours through its candidate portal. You’ll normally need your exam number, shown on your exam slip, and the email address you registered with.

Each released exam can also have its own results page. This allows you to find your result using your email, NIN and date of birth, which is useful if you’ve misplaced your exam number.

Can’t access the email address you registered with? TRCN’s results service also provides a way to update it using your NIN.

What will my TRCN result show?

For recent exams, your result screen can show your score, how many questions you got right, how many you got wrong, how many you skipped, the pass mark applied to your result, and whether you passed.

Older, legacy diets may show a grade rather than the same score breakdown.

What if I think my result is wrong?

Where a review is available, the result screen lets you request a review by TRCN’s examination board free of charge.

There is a limited review window after results are released. TRCN sets that period for each exam, so if you believe there’s a mistake, don’t leave it until later.

The review can either confirm your original score or adjust it.

If you passed: getting your certificate and licence

Congratulations. Passing the PQE doesn’t by itself complete your registration. You still need to go through TRCN’s online certificate process and make the required payment.

TRCN’s current certificate page says a single payment covers both your certificate and your 3-year practising licence. They remain separate documents, but TRCN describes the current process as becoming a certified and licensed TRCN teacher in one step.

How much do the certificate and licence cost?

TRCN’s current online Fee Calculator uses a fee schedule dated March 2026.

Source: TRCN online Fee Calculator · Schedule dated March 2026 · Last checked 30 September 2026

Pay the amount TRCN’s portal shows. We haven’t yet been able to see the combined “Amount due” ourselves.

TRCN’s website also isn’t completely consistent. An older official page still shows much lower registration and licence fees. We have asked TRCN to clarify the discrepancy.

Your TRCN certificate

Your certificate is your permanent proof that you’re professionally registered with TRCN.

It does not expire.

When your registration is completed, TRCN also assigns your Teacher Identification Number (TID), your permanent TRCN identifier.

The certificate can be downloaded as a PDF and verified using its QR code or TRCN’s public register.

Can I get a physical TRCN certificate?

TRCN says physical copies may be issued through state offices or mailed, and advises teachers to check their portal for instructions.

We haven’t found current guidance saying that everyone automatically receives a printed certificate, or explaining exactly how to request one.

If you need a physical copy, check your dashboard or contact your TRCN state office.

If you didn’t pass the PQE

Your next step will normally be the next PQE diet.

TRCN’s current portal doesn’t show a separate retake route, but TRCN hasn’t published clear current rules covering how many times you can take the current PQE, whether there’s a waiting period, or whether a retake costs anything different from a normal PQE registration.

Older TRCN rules from 2014 allowed candidates three attempts before a minimum one-year break, but we haven’t found anything confirming that those rules still apply to today’s PQE.

So we don’t want to present them as the current rule.

Passed years ago but never got your certificate?

Don’t automatically assume you need to take the PQE again.

This is one area where the available information doesn’t fit neatly together.

What TRCN has previously said: in 2024 and 2025, TRCN was reported as saying that a PQE result was valid for one year for the purpose of obtaining a certificate.

What TRCN’s current portal says: its certificate system says “Certificates can be generated for PQE exams sat from 2019 onwards.”

And we haven’t found the one-year rule on TRCN’s current public website.

Already have an old printed TRCN certificate?

If you’re already registered with TRCN and hold a printed certificate, don’t register for the PQE again just because you’ve never used the new online portal.

TRCN provides a service for linking your historical registration to its current system.

Never used the new teacher portal?

Use TRCN’s Claim your TRCN certificate service.

The system can identify historical records using details including your registration number, your certificate number, your NIN, or your name and date of birth for older paper records.

A TRCN registration number may look something like LA/P/24652. If your certificate has the word TRCN printed above the number, TRCN says that is a heading and isn’t part of the registration number.

TRCN says it will verify your details against your NIMC record before any change is made.

Already have a TRCN online account?

Sign in instead.

You can either link your legacy certificate from your profile or go to Certificate → I have a physical certificate — verify it.

You’ll be asked to upload the certificate and enter its registration number and issue date.

TRCN’s portal says this verification normally takes about 48 hours on weekdays.

Lost your TRCN registration number or TID?

Search TRCN’s public register by your TID, registration number, phone number, email or NIN.

Your TRCN teaching licence

Your certificate and teaching licence are different documents.

TRCN says teaching licences are issued for a fixed 3-year term.

Already registered but don’t have a licence online?

In the Licence section of your teacher account, TRCN allows you to generate a licence if you have a verified certificate, or submit an existing physical licence for verification.

TRCN says verification of an existing physical licence is at no extra cost.

Renewing your TRCN teaching licence

When your licence is due for renewal, sign in to your TRCN teacher account, open Licence and choose Renew license.

TRCN says it sends email and SMS reminders before expiry.

What if my licence has already expired?

TRCN’s current portal says an expired physical licence can no longer be verified.

Instead, apply for a fresh licence through your account.

TRCN also says you do not need your old licence number to do this.

How much does licence renewal cost?

TRCN has not published a separate current renewal-fee table that we have been able to find.

The teacher portal shows the amount applicable to your category when you renew.

We won’t guess at a renewal fee from older information.

Do I need MCPD credits?

TRCN says teachers must accumulate Mandatory Continuing Professional Development (MCPD) credits during each licensing period.

Its MCPD guidance says the credits are required for licence renewal, although TRCN’s separate licence-renewal guidance says you may need sufficient MCPD credits before renewal.

We haven’t found a current official figure stating how many MCPD credits are required.

Your teacher dashboard shows the MCPD hours recorded against your account.

What about TRCN induction?

You may also come across a separate charge for induction.

TRCN’s current Fee Calculator lists:

TRCN has an Induction Division and an Oath Taking Unit, and it holds induction ceremonies where new teachers formally take the Teachers’ Oath.

What its current public guidance doesn’t clearly explain is whether every PQE passer must complete induction, where it sits in the current online certificate-and-licence process, or how an individual teacher arranges it.

The current online certificate process doesn’t mention induction.

So we’re not going to invent a process that TRCN hasn’t published. If you’re told that you need induction, ask your institution or TRCN state office how to complete it.

Need help from TRCN?

For a problem with your own result, certificate or licence, TRCN is the only organisation that can resolve the record itself.

Support ticket

TRCN’s support system is usually the best option because it gives you a written record.

Email

Email TRCN support

Phone

+234 905 446 8360, Monday–Friday, 8:00am–5:00pm WAT

In person

You can also visit your TRCN state office.

When contacting TRCN, include your exam number, TID or registration number if you have one.