First post in over three years. I lost my login (apparently registered with my undergrad email?) I registered prior to being accepted to PT school, and contributed to the 2014 "will I get in" thread. I registered a new account with a stable email this time.
Here it is on the other side of the tunnel and I sit here awaiting NPTE test results. It's therapeutic to commiserate, so I'll add my data point:
I tested on Wednesday, and like many others, I thought this test was inordinately hard. I was stunned at how many questions I read and thought "They all look wrong to me"
In the last 8 months I've taken:
1 Faux-NPTE program capstone: score 81%
3 ScoreBuilders exams : scores ranging from 70-73%
3 TherapyEd exams scores ranging from 71-77% (I passed one! YES!)
Both PEAT tests: retired-731/800 & practice 698/800
That's 9 practice exams, plus the frequent use of NPTE-prep phone apps and any NPTE-style questions I could google from the internet-at-large.
I thought the retired NPTE was extremely fair. The practice was harder, but reasonable. It could have been frame of mind.
I'm almost sick with anxiety over the score of the actual NPTE. I've actually had recurring dreams where I scored 593. It's always 593.
This waiting is torture. Even my wife is angry (by proxy). She's a Nurse Practitioner and knew Pass/Fail before she left the Prometric Terminal.