160 From 326 to 439: How Taylee Rebuilt Her PANCE Approach in 33 Days
Physician Assistant Exam Review
Brian Wallace PA-C
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Failing the PANCE after doing “everything right” is gut‑punch territory. Taylee graduated from the University of Washington, used all the big‑name tools (Smarty PANCE, Kaplan, PANCE Prep Pearls, podcasts, Ninja Nerd) and still scored a 326 and failed her first attempt. In this conversation, she walks through how she stopped just adding more content… and […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the position assistant exam review podcast. This is episode 160 and I've got something |
| 0:05.9 | really special for you today. I've got an interview with a student who went up 113 points on her |
| 0:11.7 | second pants attempt. These These stories are so much fun. |
| 0:26.6 | They're so much fun for me to see the turnaround in a student who was struggling, |
| 0:30.7 | who was worried, who wasn't trusting themselves, who didn't have the skills that they needed to pass the exam. |
| 0:39.3 | They had the content knowledge. |
| 0:40.3 | They'd been through school. |
| 0:41.3 | They graduated. |
| 0:42.3 | They passed EORs. |
| 0:43.3 | They passed the curriculum exam. |
| 0:44.3 | But they couldn't quite get over this final hurdle. |
| 0:47.3 | And with a little time and effort and energy, put into learning to trust themselves again, |
| 0:52.3 | to put into rebuilding some of that ego that gets beat up a |
| 0:55.3 | little bit during PA school for all of us. And learning some new skills and ways of approaching |
| 1:00.2 | things like studying and test taking is you'll hear how much distance they can make, how far you can |
| 1:06.7 | go. And this is something I always talk about. If, you you know you can listen to the podcast and it's great |
| 1:10.9 | and I could work with you on cardiology or pulmonology and we can move scores a little bit |
| 1:17.0 | a handful of points here a handful of points there but nothing is going to move scores like |
| 1:22.5 | skills nothing is going to move scores like confidence nothing's going to move scores like confidence. |
| 1:33.7 | Nothing's going to move scores like understanding what kind of test taker you are and then leaning into that. |
| 1:37.4 | We teach all of that inside of 33 days to pass the pants. |
| 1:40.3 | And the April cohort is right around the corner. |
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