TL;DR: The Dagupan Gapuz branch runs face-to-face review for the Nurse Licensure Examination from Gapuz Centrum I in Bolosan district, Dagupan City, contactable on 0961 339 1089. Two things need saying plainly. There are two similarly named Gapuz operations in Philippine nursing review, and the one with a live website, Ray A. Gapuz Review System, does not list Dagupan among its branches. And the domain historically tied to R.A. Gapuz Review Center, gapuzreviewcenter.com, now redirects to a parked page, which we confirmed on 2 September 2026. No fee is published. Verify the branch by phone or in person before you pay anything.
The two-Gapuz problem
If you have been searching "Gapuz review center Dagupan" and getting conflicting answers, this is why.
There are two separately branded operations using the Gapuz name in Philippine nursing review:
| R.A. Gapuz Review Center | Ray A. Gapuz Review System | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating entity | Not published | International Center for Advance Review and Training (ICART) Inc. |
| Live website | None. gapuzreviewcenter.com redirects to a parked lander | raygapuzreviewsystem.com |
| Locations published on its own site | None available | Manila, Baguio, Batangas, Legazpi |
| Dagupan listed? | This branch carries the name | No |
We checked both on 2 September 2026. The Ray A. Gapuz Review System site is live and its own footer names four locations: Manila, Baguio, Batangas and Legazpi. Dagupan is not among them. The R.A. Gapuz Review Center domain loads a redirect to a /lander placeholder, which is what a parked or expired domain does.
So the honest statement is this: the Dagupan branch on file carries the R.A. Gapuz name, and its affiliation with the chain that currently has a working website could not be confirmed from either party's own materials. That is not an accusation. It is a gap, and you should close it with a phone call rather than an assumption.
We cover the wider brand history in our Gapuz review centre guide.
What is actually on record
Stripping out everything unverified, here is what we hold for this branch:
- Address: Gapuz Centrum I, Bolosan District, Dagupan City, Pangasinan
- Phone: 0961 339 1089
- Exam covered: NLE only
- Format: Face to face; no online or hybrid option on file
- Email, website, Facebook page: none verified
- Google rating: 3.5 from two reviews
Two reviews is not a sample. It tells you almost nothing about teaching quality, and you should not weight it in either direction.
The other centres in the city, across every exam, are on the Dagupan review centres page.
What "face-to-face only, no website" means for you
Plenty of legitimate Philippine review centres run without a website. Several of the best-known CPA review schools in Manila operate almost entirely through Facebook. The absence of a corporate site is not evidence of a problem.
What it does mean is that every check you would normally do online, you have to do yourself:
- Go to the address. Gapuz Centrum I is a fixed location. Twenty minutes there tells you whether a batch is running, what the room looks like, and who the lecturers are.
- Ask for the batch calendar in writing. Start date, end date, session days, session hours, final coaching dates.
- Ask for an official receipt. Not a screenshot of a transfer confirmation, an actual receipt with the business name on it.
- Ask which organisation you are enrolling with. If the answer is Ray A. Gapuz Review System, ask why Dagupan does not appear on their published location list. A straight answer to that is a good sign.
- Ask what happens if the batch does not fill. Small-city branches sometimes cannot open a batch. Find out whether you get a refund or a transfer.
Fees: not published
No fee figure exists for this branch, in our records or anywhere the centre publishes.
We are not going to invent one. Nursing review pricing varies widely by format, by length and by whether final coaching is bundled or sold separately, and a made-up figure would only mislead you at the exact moment you are budgeting. Ask for the total in writing, and ask specifically whether handouts, mock exams and final coaching are inside or outside the quoted price. Our review centre cost guide explains why the spread across the market is so large.
The realistic alternative in Dagupan
Our directory lists six review centres in Dagupan City across all exams. For the NLE specifically there is one other: Saint Louis Review Center's Dagupan branch, which covers both the NLE and the LET.
That branch is easier to verify. St. Louis Review Center's national site is live, publishes a branch list that includes Dagupan, and links each branch to its own Facebook page. The chain publishes a self-paced NLE package price on its national site, which is more than most competitors do. We cover the network in the St. Louis Review Center guide.
That is not a recommendation to switch. It is a note that if verifiability matters to you, one of the two Dagupan NLE options is currently much easier to check than the other.
Dagupan also has Carl E. Balita Review Center and REO for other exams, so if you are still deciding on a career track rather than a review centre, the city has more depth than the NLE list alone suggests.
What Dagupan has overall
Dagupan is better served than most cities its size. Our records hold six review centres in the city, and they cover four different exam families:
| Centre | Exams |
|---|---|
| Saint Louis Review Center Dagupan | NLE, LET |
| Carl E. Balita Review Center Dagupan | LET, criminology |
| REO Dagupan | CPALE |
| RPS Review Center | Criminology |
| 90 Niner IELTS Dagupan | IELTS |
| R.A. Gapuz Dagupan | NLE |
For a nursing graduate that narrows to two: this branch and SLRC. For anyone weighing a career change, the wider list matters, because a city with a CPA and an IELTS centre is a city where several routes out are locally serviced. The full set is on the Dagupan review centres page.
Reviewing for the NLE outside Manila
The wider question behind this post is whether provincial NLE review is a compromise. It does not have to be.
The NLE is a national exam with a national coverage. The Table of Specifications is set by the Board of Nursing, not by your review centre, and the subject areas are the same in Bolosan as they are in Sampaloc. What differs between provincial and metro review is usually lecturer depth, cohort size and the number of mock exams you sit.
That last one matters more than most reviewees expect. Ask any centre you are considering, in Dagupan or elsewhere, how many full-length simulated exams are included and whether you get item-level rationales afterward. A programme with four proper mock exams and rationales beats one with more lecture hours and none. Our guides to passing the NLE on the first try and the NLE itself go into what the exam actually tests.
If you would rather compare a full provincial field before deciding, our Iloilo NLE roundup shows how four centres in one Visayas city stack up, and the same questions apply in Pangasinan.
What we could not establish
Being direct about the gaps, because they are the point of this post:
- Whether this branch is currently open. Unconfirmed.
- Its corporate relationship, if any, to Ray A. Gapuz Review System. Unconfirmed.
- Its fee, batch schedule, review length, and whether final coaching is included. Not published.
- Its lecturer roster. Not published.
- Any pass rate. PRC does not publish results by review centre, so no centre anywhere in the country has a verifiable one.
Call 0961 339 1089 and ask. If the answers come easily and in writing, that itself is useful information. A branch that can tell you its batch dates, its fee and its inclusions in one phone call is running an organised operation; one that cannot may still be fine, but you are the one carrying the risk, so make the visit before you make the payment.
Sources
- SchoolFinderPH directory record for R.A. Gapuz Review Center - Dagupan Branch
- raygapuzreviewsystem.com, including its published location list (checked 2 September 2026)
- gapuzreviewcenter.com, which redirects to a parked placeholder page (checked 2 September 2026)
- SchoolFinderPH directory records for review centres in Dagupan City