My limited experience is that for students whom can score at 70% or higher at 2nd PACKRAT close to graduation will have a high likelihood of passing PANCE.Īs for a formula to predict, don't bother. Next goal is to increase from first score. Hopefully your program administers a 2nd time partway through the clinical year. That is actually not that bad for end of didactic term. PACKRAT is scored out of 225 questions, so obtaining a 140 = 62%. Request the results which also include keyword feedback to highlight what a PACKRAT taker got wrong. If your program is not releasing results to you but only providing a score then that is not helpful. Good goal is to be above national mean for your form which the results will outline. There are 2 forms used every year, current year and preceding. In those results, you will find comparison to class and national mean for the form of the exam. I will use a different method of studying for those topcis I continue to struggle with including Osmosis, podcasts or reviewing those with a study partner.Your program can release the results to you from PACKRAT. Once I am done going over the information for the first time, I will re-do all the questions that I flagged, either because I got them wrong or because it was a lucky guess. At the end of my first and second week I will take a 120-question practice test with review that same day and during my 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th week I will take a 300-question practice test with 45 minutes of break and use the next few days to review it.
PAEA PACKRAT FULL
Endurance was the hardest part of taking the PACKRATs for me so my goal is to take 2 smaller practice tests and 3 full practice tests.
I will then supplement that information and fill in the gap with Pance Prep Pearls. I find that doing questions, learning from their answers and creating study guides based on topics I struggled in helps me absorb the information the most. For each topic that I cover, I will do as many practice questions as I can in both Rosh Review and SmartyPance. Lastly I will focus on topics which were my strongest including orthopedics, ENT, dermatology, hematology and endocrinology. The next topics I’ll move on to include the ones that were stronger for me but still need significant improvement including cardiology, OBGYN, neurology and psychiatry. That includes GI, infectious disease and pulmonology. I plan on starting with the topics which were weakest for me. I will also factor in which topics are highest-yield and which are lowest-yield to guide how much time I will spend on each. I will base my PANCE Prep Plan based on the topics which were the weakest for me and on those that were stronger but definitely could use improvement. The areas I was strongest in were: cardiology, endocrinology, hematology and orthopedics. The areas I was strongest in were: dermatology, ENT, orthopedics and endocrinology.īased on my clinical PACKRAT, the areas I was weakest in were: GI, infectious disease and pulmonology. I will therefore use my didactic and clinical PACKRATs to help guide me in creating an appropriate study plan, helping me to focus on areas in which I am weakest and continuing to gain knowledge in the areas in which I am stronger.īased on my didactic PACKRAT, the areas I was weakest in were: cardiology, infectious disease, GI, neurology and OBGYN. I therefore plan to take my PANCE exam 6 weeks after the completion of my 9 th rotation in April.ĭue to me being two rotations behind the rest of the majority of the class, I did not take my End of Curriculum Exam yet and so I don’t have that breakdown to help me create my PANCE Prep Plan right now but when I do take the EOC exam and get my results I will surely factor that information in to my study plan.
I am currently in my 7 th rotation of the clinical year which means my 8 th rotation will be in January and the last one following that.