Actually, if you did read my other posts at the time, that's why I did well on the exam, I had somewhere between 4000 and 6000 hours of internship (the Board stop counting after 4000) and four years of tech work going into NAPLEX literally the first day possible for my ATT (the required 21 days from graduation). Work really helps much better than class for the preparation for most concepts on the exam, and I had worked much more than I went to class during that time period (I was benefits eligible all three years, and FT my last two).
As for being out of practice, it is not that I am out of health care, I just do not see patients as I've promoted out of active care with my practice choice and current job. I still teach, I still keep up, and I'm still consulted on in my area of practice (nuclear BCNP) every so often for NRC. I just have not worked either outpatient or inpatient which are more "direct" patient care activities. But if someone out of active practice can use their decaying memory to pass, someone at the end of the training cycle should be at their prime to pass. That is what worries me about a failure right out after school. The preparation is usually no better than at that period, so failing at that point bodes ill for the future when it is expected that we all regress.
I'm sorry to hear that, those sort of circumstances are out of your control, and those are things you pray for. For anyone who is human, it has to affect their performance around the time. On the same note though, you are allowed to defer taking the exam until you have had time to recover, so activating your ATT prematurely was not in your best interest. You are even allowed to defer for contingent reasons lke that, Prometric even waives the rescheduling fee every so often for those circumstances as they happen. Perhaps when there is enough time distant, circumstances will not override the performance as much.
