
Your goal as the student is to get your line into the passing zone and, at the very least, straddle that line. Conversely, if you've been answering everything incorrectly, you will get very easy questions which may lead you to believe that you came in overly prepared.Īs you answer questions correctly your line moves towards the pass region and as you get questions wrong you will be pushed into the fail zone. If you've been killing it, you will be getting insanely hard questions and may feel like you were unprepared. In fact, one can theoretically pass the National Registry with a percentage score that would be failing in a traditional class! Because of this, it is difficult to gauge how you're doing mid-test. The test is looking for you to maintain a level of difficulty that is above a certain threshold rather than a minimum percentage of correct answers. How the National Registry is Structured The Pass / Fail SystemĪs most of you know, the National Registry is an adaptive test that gets progressively harder as you do better and progressively easier as you do worse.
EMT PRACTICE TEST NATIONAL REGISTRY HOW TO
In this quick and dirty guide, I'm going to cover three basic topics: how the National Registry is structured, how to formulate a study schedule, and how to become a master tester.

It is odd that the style of the test causes more anxiety than the actual content but unfortunately that's the nature of the game here in the US. Of all of the worries that I hear from medic students about the licensure process, taking the National Registry test is by far the most common.
