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The PANCE is a rite of passage we all have to endure on the road to becoming a PA-C. The question is, with everything you have to know for the test, how do you go about creating a PANCE study…

As of early 2026, the PAEA has officially phased out the old version of the General Surgery End of Rotation™ exam in favor of the new Surgery End of Rotation™ (EOR) exam. This isn’t just a substitution in name only—you’ll…

When PA students finally make it through the didactic year and get to clinical rotations, they’re usually fired up about leaving the classroom behind and heading to clinical practice. It’s such an exhilarating feeling to finally put those hours of…

Congratulations, you did it! You finally took the PANCE. You hit submit and have left the testing center. Now, after months of studying and preparing, two questions inevitably arise: How long does it take to get PANCE results? And what…

Every day, students ask us the same question in several variations: What is the best PANCE review? Why is your Qbank the top PANCE review? How does Rosh Review compare vs Exam Master vs Hippo Education vs Kaplan vs NEJM Knowledge+ vs PAEasy vs BoardVitals vs...?”

As a tutor, one of the most common questions students ask me is “Do you think I’m ready to register for the PANCE?” While there’s no infallible way to determine this, there are some steps you can take to assess…

This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your PANCE or PANRE score by 100 points. I've written about this topic before but there is new information that I want to share. While there is no magic pill or wand to achieve this, these two techniques are the most useful and not difficult to implement and only require a little of your time. This means anyone can take advantage of them. The first tactic is to use a system over a couple of months to identify what you don;t know. Sounds easy, right? The key is going to be to go through a curriculum and identify what you don't know - not what you are weak at - but what you don't know. The second strategy is to take advantage of human error. Tests are written by humans, of course, and humans make errors. This article will show you 5 very easy techniques to narrow down an answer choice to either the correct answer or to a 50/50 probability - even without knowing anything about the topic. By combining these two strategies, you'll be able to increase your PANCE or PANRE score by 10 points - which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let's get started.