AANP

[vbarger28, BSN]

I am a new FNP grad as of this January, and am struggling to gage whether I am likely to pass my AANP exam. My school required the soul crushing predictors from APEA, I scored a 65 my first go 6 months before graduation and a 64 for my final...today about 3 weeks later I took one for personal use and scored a 69. (My school required us to score above a 63 as that is national average).

I felt like the live in-person Hollier APEA review was almost too easy, I did well during the questions/discussions and overall knowledge base. I bough 5 exam edge tests and scored a 522 twice, 532 twice, and got a 507 on my first one (you had to have above a 500 to be considered passing for the scaled simulations).

I am so worried, yes I know read explanations etc...I have been doing it until my eyes bleed, and have also completed FNP Mastery with a score of 71 and I'm a 66 with UWorld FNP...I am having a REALLY hard time gauging which resource is best to align myself with to determine if I'm ready. I found Leik full of too many errors as a lot of guidelines changed that will be changed on the exam per the live Hollier Review. I'm doing Fitzgerald and finding it too aggressive/in depth.  

Anyone who has passed can you tell me which source you found most similar to your exam?

[Mergirlc, MSN, APRN, NP]

I'm curious, as well, what is the best comparison.  Hoping somebody can chime in soon.

[vbarger28, BSN]

So I took my AANP exam yesterday and passed in one hour. I saw questions almost verbatim from the practice exams on exam edge, and several question on my exam were practice question topics on exam edge. 

 

Here is my advice. I took my predictor and looked at the categories I was below in. I looked those areas and read about them in my Fitzgerald book.

I did take the live apea hollier review, and literally everything on my exam was from that. So I would do there live review because they give you a study book. Whatever sections you are getting wrong, look them up in your study guide from their review.

Leik was a waste of time, too many errors and incorrect information and the guidelines were out of date. 

Fitzgerald was great for me to look up material I didn't understand to go over but I wouldn't read the whole book or use their questions it's information overload. 

Go to the APEA Hollier live review and study your guide they let you take home and do exam edge practice tests..I also used UWorld and FNP Mastery. I did NOT find the apea question banks helpful just soul crushing. 

I did look up a YouTube video on murmurs that had pictures to correlate and it saved my life. 

I found the exam easy now that I look back, but my anxiety had me an absolute wreck to where I puked twice at the test center. 

 

Best of luck all.

[barcode120x, RN, NP]

Took my AANP Summer of 2022 and 2 APEA predictors exams were part of my programs curriculum. The 2nd APEA predictor test just before my last semester, I failed miserably, at around 55% or so (didn't study and didn't realize it made such a huge impact in my course grade) and had to remediate. I took it again and scored a 65% and was told that was a passing grade  My instructor did mention that 70% is where you are in a "good area" for passing while 65% she said was borderline. Do not be too concerned about the APEA predictor tests and focus more on reviewing.

I started off my pre-exam studying with fully going through Fitzgerald as you have done. It is very dry, long, and repetitive but the goal was to get the flat, text content stuck in the brain. After that I went over Amelie's lecture material and whatnot. The remainder of my time before my exam was mostly focusing on Leik's review material and her online Q-bank. I highly recommend Leik but this was 2 years ago so I don't about any guideline changes and the effect on that on study material. I do recall a good portion of questions that were nearly identical to Leik's.

Based on your scores on all your predictors, I feel like you will do just fine.