Hi,
I failed in July and in October 2019, both by 5 questions. It was obviously embarrassing to get over but each time I swallowed my pride and got back to it. I actually feel that I did too much and burnt myself out and that on top of my nerves and already terrible test taking skills really didn’t help my case.
Before July, I took the final frontier NPTE course which was great (mostly followed therapy Ed and O’Sullivan), but then I took their 2 practice tests, 3 SB tests, 3 therapy Ed tests, and 2 PEATS. Failed. Second time around, I didn’t really change much besides I made about 600 flash cards thinking that may be the difference? Failed. Third time, I asked my friends from class to let me just talk at them basically, took 2 SB online advantage tests (scores 72%, 81%), and I very strategically skimmed through SB book using their basecamp. This made all the difference and it was a bit strange having to gather up the courage to talk to my friends from class about it but I’m glad I did. I also realized that SB was the better book for me the entire time.
Sorry for the long response, but the point is I finally PASSED this January and knew I did while going through my 5th section of the test. I was way more confident and knew that I knew my stuff. (And it was very nice to beat the fsbpt stats on “very little chance of passing after 2nd attempt”).
As far as my test scores, there are way too many to look up but all my SB and Therapy Ed were from 70-75%. Practice PEAT 630, Retired 598. (This was from first attempt). I retook everything 2nd time around and I was getting over 90% on everything.