Katie writes…
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I just found out I passed the PANRE! also purchased the final step and listened to the audio questions in the car and it was a HUGE help. I even had a few questions directly from that. Taking this test for the first time was an absolute nightmare for me, but thanks to you I made it through.
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The same week I got Katie’s email, I also got an email from another community member who shall remain nameless
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I failed my exam. I am not blaming you, or your product. But I found that it did not help me as much as I thought it would during my examination.
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I have two theories on why this can happen – on how two people can get such different results.
Theory number one: People learn differently.
Everyone has their own style – certain books and study methods resonate with certain people but not with others.
Theory number two: We all create our own reality based upon what we believe.
We always thought it was “I’ll believe it when I see it,” but more and more I’m realizing it’s “I’ll see it when I believe it.” Politics is the easiest example right now. After any speech made by any President, you will see this reaction from both camps:
“What a great speech! I love that he talked about x y and z. He is a genius. I’m more convinced than ever that he will be the best president this country has ever seen.”
“What a buffoon. What an idiot. All he does is lie. I’m more convinced than ever that he will be the worst president this country has ever seen.”
I’m pretty sure people in either camp believed they knew what they were going to see beforehand. Then, they spent the entire speech looking for the details that would create the world they already believed in.
In the sales world, a common idea is that decisions are made with emotions and THEN we look for facts the to justify those decisions.
Do we see the world as it is or how we already expect to see it?
People write in: “You know there are no key terms on the exam anymore.”
Other people write in: “I could hear you in my head every time I saw a key term on my exam.”
Did these two have different exams? Maybe…
Are all of the exam questions paragraphs long? Are all of the questions convoluted? Are there NO key terms on the exam? I doubt it.
No, they don’t throw the key terms at you. They are not underlined for you. But are they in there? Absolutely.
How do I know? Without them, you can’t write a 300-question test.
You can try to hide them and change the vocabulary a little. But you can’t write a test question about PCOS and talk about a tall thin female in her 40s who has 3 kids. It just doesn’t make any sense.
If you only memorize key terms, you might not see them. But if you use them to paint a picture, then they have to be in almost every question.
You might not see them. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
The best resource to learn key terms, paint brilliant mental pictures, and create connections that stick is The Final Step.
Good luck!
Brian Wallace
P.S. I’m feverishly working on putting the final touches on my Dream Job Program. This program has been responsible for numerous PAs creating their dream jobs out of thin air. It took one candidate from applying to 26 jobs over the period of a month without a single response to working in surgery 8 minutes from home in about a week.
If you’re going to be looking for job, keep an eye out. It’s coming in the middle of April.
