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PANCE
The PANCE is the physician assistant certification exam that PAs must take before becoming licensed. The exam includes 300 questions that are administered in 5 sets of 60 questions each. Rosh Review’s PANCE review Qbank has 3,000 questions that will give you all the practice you need and will help you crush your PANCE with confidence.
The Rosh Review blog provides study and exam prep tips, podcasts, and more for physicians, NPs, PAs, residents, and students. Below you’ll find a list of the blog posts that highlight PANCE. Take a look and learn something new.
Top PANCE FAQs: Everything You Need to Know for Exam Day
Taking the PANCE is the culmination of your PA school journey. Everything you learned comes down to passing this one test before you can FINALLY put your knowledge to work. The odds of you passing the boards are high, especially if you put in the work—the PANCE pass rate was 92% in 2022, so the read more…
Introducing the Newest Live PANCE Review Course
With recent declining PANCE pass rates, it’s more important than ever to ramp up your PANCE prep and guarantee you pass the exam on the first take. To help you study for your exam with additional structure and accountability, the team of PAs behind the Rosh Review PANCE Qbank is now bringing their expertise to read more…
PANCE Pass Rates Are Down To 92% in 2022. Here’s How to Pass in 2023
In April 2019, the NCCPA announced that PANCE pass rates had dropped from 98% to 93% after the release of the newest PANCE Blueprint. After trending upward to 95% in 2020, 2021 saw a decrease to 93%, and new data reports that the 2022 pass rate further dropped to 92%. While a 92% pass rate read more…
4 Helpful Scheduling Tools For Your PANCE Study Plan
First, give yourself a moment of celebration: you’ve made it to the end of your PA program! Now, the fun part begins (that is, depending on your definition of fun): preparing for the PANCE. Maybe you’ve already picked out the perfect PANCE review resources but are struggling to create a study plan with them. Or, read more…
4 Tips for Scheduling Your PANCE Exam Date
Taking the PANCE is a big day in every PA’s life. It’s the day you’ve been working toward for years, and you want to make sure it’s a successful one. Most of the buzz about the PANCE focuses on exam content and coverage, with little mention of scheduling logistics. As the final checkpoint to becoming read more…
Top 16 Questions About Qbanks for PA Students, the PANCE, & Rotation Exams
Researching the best PA exam review methods and details can be overwhelming. Rather than doing the time-intensive searching yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of study options exist, which one(s) are right for you, and what you need to know to prepare for your didactic read more…
New in Your Boost Box: The 50 “Hardest” PANCE Review Questions of 2019
Have you ever wondered which questions in your PANCE review Qbank are answered incorrectly most often? Some of the questions are definitely trickier than others, and it’s not always on purpose. So as an end-of-the-year treat, we’ve released the 50 most commonly missed questions from the 2019 PANCE Qbank. These “hardest” 50 questions are available read more…
Everything You Should Know About Buzzwords on the PANCE and PANRE
Historically, PA classes and exams are replete with “buzzwords”—key words or phrases that are associated with particular diagnoses. And the thinking is, if you know the buzzwords, you’ll score higher on your exams. Meanwhile, there is talk that the boards are moving away from including buzzwords in their questions. Whether this is the case or read more…
My Foolproof PANCE Study Strategy
I graduated from Clarkson University’s Physician Assistant program in May 2018 and am a Family Care Physician Assistant in a small, rural, underserved Upstate New York town. I took my PANCE 2 weeks after graduation and PASSED, so I started working on July 1st. All of my friends who graduated the year before me said read more…
The 3 Study Tips I Used to Pass the PANCE
Nobody gets to be a certified PA just for having good bedside manners. If you don’t practice, you don’t pass your PA exams; as a historically poor test taker, this meant months of anxiety and stress leading up to the PANCE. I felt that no matter what method I was using, I couldn’t be sure read more…
The PANCE Just Got Harder to Pass. How Does This Affect You?
[Updated 1/15/2020] Since this post originally appeared on June 30, 2019, thousands of PANCE scores have been reported. As expected, the PANCE passing rate dropped to approximately 93% for first-time test takers. Year Pass Rate 2015 96% 2016 96% 2017 97% 2018 98% 2019 93% Back in January 2019, the NCCPA released an updated Content read more…
Why You’re Mentally Ready to Take the PANCE
The Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE): the word itself will send the average PA student into instant tachycardia. It’s what you’ve been told about, taught about, and worked for since the very first day of PA school. To add to the stress, you also know that the past 24+ months of hard work and read more…
PANCE Prep Tips
Preparing for the PANCE exam can be a daunting task. The best way to succeed is smart, focused preparation. When studying for the certification exam, the first thing to do is to identify your weaknesses. There are several ways to do that. The NCCPA offers a 120-question exam for $50. It is designed like the read more…
How to Boost Your PANCE or PANRE Score by 100 Points
This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your PANCE or PANRE score by 100 points. I’ve written about this topic before but there is new information that I want to share. While there is no magic pill or wand to achieve this, these two techniques are the most useful and not difficult to implement and only require a little of your time. This means anyone can take advantage of them. The first tactic is to use a system over a couple of months to identify what you don;t know. Sounds easy, right? The key is going to be to go through a curriculum and identify what you don’t know – not what you are weak at – but what you don’t know. The second strategy is to take advantage of human error. Tests are written by humans, of course, and humans make errors. This article will show you 5 very easy techniques to narrow down an answer choice to either the correct answer or to a 50/50 probability – even without knowing anything about the topic. By combining these two strategies, you’ll be able to increase your PANCE or PANRE score by 10 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.
How to Pass the PANCE on the First Try
I recently found out that I passed my PANCE exam on the first attempt! Studying for the PANCE exam doesn’t begin one month or even six months in advance. It begins the day you start PA school. Everything you learn in didactic classes and during clinical year is all preparation for the PANCE exam. When read more…
New Update: 2019 NCCPA PANCE Content Blueprint & A Mock PANCE
The Rosh Review PANCE Qbank is updated to reflect the 2019 NCCPA PANCE Content Blueprint changes. Back in March 2018, we posted this update. Let’s review the 2019 NCCPA PANCE Content Blueprint changes: Summary of changes Categories that INCREASED Endocrine system: Now 7% (was 6%) Hematologic system: Now 5% (was 3%) Infectious diseases: Now 6% (was 3%) Renal: Now 5% read more…
How to Create a Study Plan and Pummel the PANCE
Before I even started my PANCE review, I made a detailed, weekly study schedule in Microsoft Word. As my studies progressed, this schedule was incredibly motivating and helpful at keeping me on track. After making this schedule, I selected several PANCE study resources to use. There are literally dozens of credible PANCE study resources and read more…
How to Get Your First Job After Passing the PANCE
You just spent the past 24–36 months preparing for the biggest exam of your life, the PANCE. You sign onto the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) dashboard and there before your eyes is the “C.” You did it! You are officially a PA-C. But now what? How about landing your first read more…
The PA Way, Podcast Episode 5: Hypertension Overview, Diagnosis & More
The PA Way, hosted by Allison Callahan, PA-C, is a weekly podcast with the goal to deliver high-quality, high-yield core content learning so you can be strong, fearless, resilient, and ready for taking care of your patients and passing your certification exam. The PA Way will tackle a new topic every episode, covering the most valuable information to gain confidence and improve your knowledge. The PA Way takes a topic from presentation to application. Join us….you’ll be glad you did. This week’s episode focuses on an overview of hypertension including diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
The PA Way, Podcast Episode 4: Key Kidney Concepts
The PA Way, hosted by Allison Callahan, PA-C, is a weekly podcast with the goal to deliver high-quality, high-yield core content learning so you can be strong, fearless, resilient, and ready for taking care of your patients and passing your certification exam. The PA Way will tackle a new topic every episode, covering the most valuable information to gain confidence and improve your knowledge. The PA Way takes a topic from presentation to application. Join us….you’ll be glad you did. This week’s episode focuses on key kidney concepts.