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“How do I get ready for the NPTE?”  This is a question that comes up a lot when I get emails from students working to get ready for the National Physical Therapy Examination.  It can be a very difficult question to answer because it is different for every individual.

One of the most common questions I receive as the author of this blog is, “How do I study and prepare for the NPTE?”  Unfortunately, many students ask this question too late.  My goal is to help you prioritize your studies so that you can pass the NPTE on the first attempt.

With the January 2014 NPTE in the rear-view mirror, our focus now turns toward the April NPTE.  The April NPTE is the second-most popular time to take the exam and will be a focal point of many students about to graduate this spring.  I remember well my final weeks before taking the NPTE.

Hard to believe, but we’re officially 1 week away from the January NPTE.  I have spoken with a number of students who are preparing for the exam, and it is extremely common to have great feelings of trepidation and anxiety.  The NPTE is a test of vast importance to your career and represents an examination of all the knowledge you learned in physical therapy school.  For many students, this will not be their first attempt at the exam—these students in particular express self-doubt and anxiety about facing the test again.  In an earlier post, I wrote extensively about the importance of finding some dream or goal that inspires you to persevere, even through the hard times.  Anything in life that is really worth doing requires great sacrifice.  No doubt, every student of physical therapy has spent countless hours poring over their books and dedicated entire weekends to memorizing the brachial plexus.  You just have to make it through this last exam.

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NPTE October 30, 2013

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I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about the musculoskeletal intervention section of the NPTE.  In my last posts, I described the rationale behind the rehab protocols for tendon and ligament healing.  These articles describe well the tissue healing times and the anatomy behind the protocols.  I have always felt that this is very important when creating a rehabilitation program–if you understand deeply the mechanism and the “why” behind a treatment, you will be able to extrapolate that information much better into other similar treatments.