Hey folks, I decided to browse this forum for an hour or so this past Sunday, 2 days before I was scheduled to take my second NREMT exam. I felt that it would be rude of me to just use the information without at least giving a simple thank you. Just got my results, and I did pass 
Thank you all very much for the helpful tips and the shared experiences. If anyone is wondering, I got stopped at question 70 and I'm pretty sure I got the question right. I used quite a few testing materials including the EMT Achieve, Mosby's green book (though this was the easiest one of all), and EMT-Basic Review Manual for National certification (this was the most helpful). I gotta say I didn't study as well as I should have and I dragged on my studying process over a period of a month. I studied for a week, maybe about an hour or two a day, and then I would not do anything for a week lol. Finally, I decided to study intensively for 2-3 days and schedule my second attempt.
The first time I took this test, it was just silly of me to have even signed up. At the time, I just finished my 3 week accelerated EMT course and I decided that I was too smart to study for the NREMT so I went ahead and scheduled the test without studying a single minute after completing my class...and so I learned the hard way
Now, let me say a few words about the actual exam. For the most part, I felt pretty good about it. It really is just a basic medical exam and like someone on here has stated, if you wish to advance further in medicine then you better get used to these type of exams. With that said, there were some RIDICULOUS questions on the exam, stuff that I couldn't believe anyone had the audacity to put on there. Both of my parents are physicians, and I know how difficult the field of medicine as a whole is...I know enough to know that this kind of stuff should not have been on the exam. I asked them some of these questions (the medial related ones, not the scope of practice of EMT management obviously) after my exam ended and they laughed at me because even they didn't know! My dad has never failed to answer me a medical question. I can't post the exact questions, but for one, the difficulty of these questions were completely irrelevant to the EMT's every day job and two, they do not challenge you in any way other than testing your very, very deep understanding of a few very rare occurrences in the field.
Anyway, that's my rant. Again, thank you all very much! Good luck to all future EMTs!
Thank you all very much for the helpful tips and the shared experiences. If anyone is wondering, I got stopped at question 70 and I'm pretty sure I got the question right. I used quite a few testing materials including the EMT Achieve, Mosby's green book (though this was the easiest one of all), and EMT-Basic Review Manual for National certification (this was the most helpful). I gotta say I didn't study as well as I should have and I dragged on my studying process over a period of a month. I studied for a week, maybe about an hour or two a day, and then I would not do anything for a week lol. Finally, I decided to study intensively for 2-3 days and schedule my second attempt.
The first time I took this test, it was just silly of me to have even signed up. At the time, I just finished my 3 week accelerated EMT course and I decided that I was too smart to study for the NREMT so I went ahead and scheduled the test without studying a single minute after completing my class...and so I learned the hard way
Now, let me say a few words about the actual exam. For the most part, I felt pretty good about it. It really is just a basic medical exam and like someone on here has stated, if you wish to advance further in medicine then you better get used to these type of exams. With that said, there were some RIDICULOUS questions on the exam, stuff that I couldn't believe anyone had the audacity to put on there. Both of my parents are physicians, and I know how difficult the field of medicine as a whole is...I know enough to know that this kind of stuff should not have been on the exam. I asked them some of these questions (the medial related ones, not the scope of practice of EMT management obviously) after my exam ended and they laughed at me because even they didn't know! My dad has never failed to answer me a medical question. I can't post the exact questions, but for one, the difficulty of these questions were completely irrelevant to the EMT's every day job and two, they do not challenge you in any way other than testing your very, very deep understanding of a few very rare occurrences in the field.
Anyway, that's my rant. Again, thank you all very much! Good luck to all future EMTs!
