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Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

How to pass the Boards (PANCE and PANRE)

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8997 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The number one reason people don't pass their exams is not due to a lack of knowledge - it's due to the fact they don't know how to take an exam.

Today, I want to share my number one piece of advice for you :)

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0:00.0

What's going on guys? So today I want to address something that I get asked all the time.

0:05.3

And today I want to talk about passing the boards, passing your exams,

0:09.2

how to actually get to that next step, how to pass this hurdle that we all hate, right?

0:14.4

Because none of us really love taking exams.

0:17.1

Except for the weird ones out there, I was a little weird, but I'm sure there's some of

0:21.6

you out there that really get off on taking exams

0:23.8

but for the most part nobody likes it because everyone knows the truth and the truth

0:28.5

is that exams don't necessarily correlate to the way you're to practice when you're out in the real

0:33.7

world and that's true because when you take an exam it's different right you have

0:38.8

all the information available you have everything you need to know right on that piece of paper or on the laptop

0:44.5

depending on how you're taking this exam. In real life you don't have all the

0:49.0

information in real life you only have the information that you ask for.

0:53.0

And that's the difference.

0:55.0

But this means that exams are incredibly easy, right?

0:58.0

This means that exams are the easy part

1:00.0

because you don't have to figure out which questions to ask.

1:03.0

They're already asked for you.

1:04.0

They're presented in the vignette.

1:06.0

28 year old male, Caucasian descent, history of smoking,

1:10.0

cough, dyspne, a hymopesis.

1:12.0

Right? Pulmonary nodule. this me a hymophesis, right?

1:13.6

Pulmonary nodule.

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