Yes! Boards are after the first year. I am a first year student right now, and we are about to start the Kaplan review. There is a window of time during June and July that we can take the 1st board. I'm telling you..........it will be so nice to get that test out of the way. 2nd year is going to be so much nicer because of that. ASDOH has a pretty high pass rate as well. I think more schools are going to switch to allowing students to take it after the first year.