The Quebec Order of Nurses is making changes to improve the English version of its licensing exam after students say the last test was lost in translation.

In November, a group of nursing students started a petition after taking the exam and finding the English translation to be unacceptable. Several students failed because they say the questions were poorly translated.

“I'm very glad that this petition has brought about change to the translation process. Everyone who signed that petition is part of this change,” said student nurse Gabriela Mizrahi, who passed her exam, but is rallying behind those classmates who didn’t.

More than 400 nursing students signed the petition over the qualifying exam, saying poorly-translated exam questions put English-speaking students at a disadvantage, leading many to fail.

The Quebec Order of Nurses said it already has a thorough translation and proofreading process in place, but based on student feedback, it's willing to go further.

“We are planning to introduce another translator who would proofread it to make sure of the fluidity of the writing,” said Lemay.

The Order denies the questions were fundamentally unclear.

The consensus for the questions that were looked at with the teachers was that as they were written, the questions were not misleading and students should have been able to answer those questions.

That leaves nursing students confused – while there's change, there’s also no real acknowledgement that there's a problem.

“They said translation was not an issue, yet they did say ’fluidity’ was an issue -- fluidity of the sentences. Fluidity of the sentence is a translation issue,” said student nurse Raphael Bedard.

The Order is now planning to also offer an English exam preparation session at its annual conferences, as it already does for French students.

It will send out a bi-monthly English newsletter, giving students advice on how to prepare for the exam.

Those measures, however, won't be implemented in time to help students rewriting it in March.

The Order also said it won't waive additional exam fees for students who failed.

“Everybody has paid $600 to write the exam in September 2014,” said Mizrahi. “Those who decided to pay for a review of the exam -- $200 for that, and then another $600 to register for the March exam, so all in all $1400. That’s a lot of money.”