Submitting Your Retake Portfolio

It is critical that all National Board Certification candidates read and follow the guidelines and recommendations for successful portfolio submission. Below, you will find information regarding the submission deadlines and answers to the most commonly asked questions surrounding the portfolio submission. Additional information can be found in our general FAQs.

• Submission Deadlines
• Commonly Asked Questions
  
  

Submission Deadlines

New NBPTS policy is to accept submissions according to the postmark date and not the "received by" date. Your submission must be postmarked by:

• First-time candidates – March 31, 2012
• Retake Candidates – April 15, 2012
  

Commonly Asked Questions

Prior to submission, many candidates have last minute questions on portfolio instructions, assembly, packing and shipping.  Use the FAQs below to find answers:

• Assembly Questions
• Formatting Questions
• Portfolio Instructions Questions
• Shipping Questions

The NBPTS Processing Center 
All candidate materials - including written correspondence, eligibility forms and withdrawal forms - should be sent to our processing center at:

NBPTS Processing Center 
11827 Tech Com Way, Suite 200
San Antonio, Texas 78233