Imallama,
Did you take the NPTE in October? If you didn't, I think you're being too hard on yourself.
My personal experience went as follows: started studying VERY leisurely on last internship (2 months before the October NPTE), about 30 minutes of skimming things I thought I needed to cover most once a day MAX. I think that was a waste of those few weeks I spent doing that.
I then took the TherapyEd course when I returned from internship and created a study plan based on the 7 weeks I had left until the NPTE. I also purchased the PT Final Exam study guide, practice test, Score Builders book, and the TherapyEd book. From then on, taking as many tests as possible to identify my weakness was most important. The best I ever did on the TherapyEd tests was 64% (3 days before the NPTE). I WAS SWEATING....I made flashcards for EVERY problem I missed on EVERY TEST I took (a total of 5 tests).
I noticed on my practice tests I did way worse after the 1st hour, so endurance was a problem. So I practiced completing test problems for 5 hours straight to improve, and it worked.
Scored a 644 with 4 weeks of moderate studying 1-2 hours a day, then hard studying and writing out flashcards/pathways/tables/charts/lists over the 2 weeks leading up to the NPTE.
The best thing you can do is identify your weakness, and looks like you've been sucessfull with that
🙂. Once you do, there is no easy way to pound it in to your head except by learning in the best way you know how.
Test, test, re-test. read it, write it, explain it to someone else.
Best of Luck,
cristianoparisi
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