Passed AANP yesterday

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Specializes in family practice.

So I passed AANP 10days after finishing from school. I am so excited. I can take a breather. I went to Frontier and I know there are different studying patterns but here's what I did:

Frontier has a comprehensive exams students take before they graduate (a new course was created to help students study for this). I took this course for 11weeks and studied those 11 weeks while in clinical and taking another course.

For the comprehensive review I used the Hollier review CD (listened to it on the way to clinical 45mins away), and used Fitgerald's book for questions and used the Leik book for studying. After I passed the comprehensive exam, I bought the 10question bank from FamilyNPPrep/ Exam edge and did one exam a day (well tried as I only completed 7). Also did the questions behind the Leik book (~600).

Since AANP let you take the exam before your official transcript is ready, I registered for this exam. My ATT came ~2weeks after sending the unofficial transcript which was the day I finished school. Since I passed the comps I knew I needed to take it as soon as possible. On the exam, there was some questions I had never come across. It got me rattled but I remembered Leik's exam taking tips which was very helpful.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Congratulations!

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Specializes in Adult Nurse Practitioner.

Congratulations! I will be done in December and have already started going through Leik's book. I really like the front section where she discusses many of the problems one can get tripped up on...as I was reading, I realized I make many of these mistakes in my testing. Of course, the biggest thing is don't change your answers!!!!! That is my BIGGEST problem and I am really getting my mind wrapped around this basic concept. During my exams...the answers I change are 90% the ones that I get wrong and my first answer was correct!

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Congrats! It's the best feeling, right?

It seems to be a recurring theme that you can't let yourself get rattled. Fitzgerald talked about this in her live course as well - she mentioned they often have tougher questions at the beginning and you need to just pick an answer, mark it and move on. You can always come back, but you might really psych yourself out staring at it for 2 minutes waiting for an epiphany. I moved on to easier questions and felt a lot better, and ended up changing none of the answers.

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Congrats! Wao! took the board 10 days after graduation? That is awesome! I like that! And i must say your school also prepared you well to take the exam because not many schools are doing comprehensive exams geared towards passing the boards. I remember that in nursing school(HESI exit exam) but not in graduate school.

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Celebrate. Treat yourself to something special.

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Celebrate...treat yourself to something very special for this is a very special occasion. Congrats.

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Good point ICURN7. Honeykrown, where did you graduate from?

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Specializes in family practice.

I went to frontier nursing university

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