That's not a content problem. You can't narrow a question to two answers without knowing the content. Saturday, we fix the part that's actually costing you the points.
A patient is 8 weeks status post right total hip arthroplasty via a posterolateral approach. During gait, the patient demonstrates lateral trunk lean over the right lower extremity during stance. The patient reports no pain. Which intervention is MOST appropriate initially?
Pick one. Go with your gut, like you would on test day.
Look at what just happened. C and D went away in about two seconds. You didn't need help with those.
You're sitting on A and B. Both are defensible. Both have a rationale you could argue. And that's exactly where you've been sitting on every exam you've taken.
Knowing whether you got it right doesn't help you. Knowing why you leaned the way you did is the whole game. That's the 2.5 hours.
Saturday Oct 10 · 11:30am–2:00pm ET · Live on Zoom · No cost to attend
These are unedited answers from people who signed up for the last bootcamp. Same question every time: what would make this a complete win for you?
of 100 named test-taking and second-guessing as their biggest struggle — more than content, retention, or time.
said anxiety and the mental game was actively costing them points.
were on attempt two, three, or more. Almost half the room had already sat for it.
Everyone showed up thinking they were the only one who freezes at the final two. Nobody was.
Think about the last practice exam you took. Not the whole thing — just the questions you missed.
Split them into two piles. Pile one: you had no idea. Never seen it, couldn't have gotten it. Pile two: you had it down to two, picked one, and it was the other one.
Pile two is bigger. It's always bigger.
Now here's the part that should bother you.
You cannot narrow a question to two answers without knowing the content. Eliminating C and D is content knowledge. It's proof. So every point sitting in pile two was lost after you'd already demonstrated you knew enough.
Which means more content can't get those points back. You already had the content. You had it, and you still handed the point away.
A coin flip gets 50% of pile two. If you're doing worse than a coin flip, something is actively pulling you toward the wrong answer.
That something has a name. It's usually one of four: you answered the question you expected instead of the one on the screen. You missed a qualifier. You picked the answer that treats the cause when the stem asked what to do first. Or you knew, changed it, and were right the first time.
Those are skills. Not facts. You don't study your way out of them — you have to be shown what you're doing, live, on a question you're actually working.
That's the entire reason this bootcamp exists. For 2.5 hours we do the thing you cannot do alone: I put a question up, you commit to an answer, and then we take apart how you got there.
2.5 hours live · Seats are limited · No cost to attend
Not a lecture. You work questions, you commit, we break down the reasoning. Cameras optional — nobody has to talk.
What we're doing, why it's built this way, and how to get the most out of the next two hours.
Live MSK questions. You commit to an answer, then we take apart the reasoning path — including the wrong ones.
How to read what the item is actually asking before you look at a single option. Qualifiers, the verb in the stem, and the difference between the cause and what to do first.
Stand up, refill, come back. Hour two is where fatigue starts costing points — that's deliberate.
Harder items. This is where we start naming your miss pattern out loud.
Rapid-fire recall rounds. Game format, and yes it gets competitive. Recall speed is a scoreable skill and almost nobody trains it.
A full block landing late in the day on purpose. That's the stretch of the real exam where points quietly disappear.
What to do in the 20 seconds after a question scrambles you: how to recognize you've lost the thread, reset, and stop one bad item from taking the next five with it.
You leave with your pattern named and a plan for your next practice block.
One thing this is not: a promise about your score. I don't sell those. I'll show you the skill and the data. You execute it.
None of them did. Read what actually changed.
She first sat for the NPTE in 2004, failed four times in a row, and quit. When she decided to try again she came to us eight weeks out — terrified, and facing an exam that had changed underneath her. We taught her test-taking skills, found her sticking points, and fixed them. She passed on her final attempt, 23 years after graduating.
A quick study who'd failed twice. We gave her a strategic approach to answering. On test day she lost track of time and hit the last 50 questions with 30 minutes left — she trusted the method anyway and ran out of clock with 19 unanswered. She passed. Nineteen blanks and she still passed. That's what happens when the questions you do answer are answered on purpose.
He did everything his program told him to and scored in the low 500s. He'd decided he was just a bad test taker. We found the actual problem in one session: he was misinterpreting what questions were asking. His next score was a 695. Same brain, same content, different reading.
Individual results vary — these are real students, not a promise about your score.
Founder, The PT Hustle · Host, NPTE Clinical Files
I struggled with standardized tests my whole life. In PT school I was scoring in the 40s on TherapyEd and doing everything the hard way — more hours, more books, more questions. It barely moved.
What changed wasn't more content. It was finally admitting that knowing the material and being able to answer a question are two different skills. I scored an 800.
I've spent the twelve years since then doing one thing: figuring out why capable people lose points they should be getting.
Free to attend. The only paid thing is the replay, and only if you want it.
2.5 hours live · 11:30am–2:00pm ET
At checkout you can add the Replay & Notes Bundle — 30-day replay, class notes, the workbook, and Dr. Rice's personal notes. Most people do, because you will not remember the interpretation rules on Wednesday.
No. Plenty of people sit with the camera off and type in the chat, or say nothing at all. Nobody gets called on. You'll still get everything.
Yes, if you're past 10 days out. This is skill work, not cramming — it's the kind of thing that helps immediately. If you're inside 10 days, get your sleep. That'll do more for your score than any class will.
No. We work questions from MSK, neuro, and cardiopulmonary, and content comes up constantly — but the subject is how you read, decide, and commit. If you want systems review, this isn't it.
Take the Replay & Notes Bundle. You get the full recording for 30 days plus the workbook and Dr. Rice's notes. You'll miss live Q&A, which is a real loss, but the class itself is intact.
No. The live class is free. The Replay & Notes Bundle is a paid add-on at checkout — 30-day replay, class notes, the workbook, and Dr. Rice's personal notes. After Saturday it's sold separately and costs more.
There isn't one. Most people who need this have already spent thousands on prep that didn't fix the problem, and I'd rather show you the work than argue about it. Some people will want the replay afterward and some will want more help later. Neither is required, and nobody gets pitched for 2.5 hours.
More than half the last group was first-attempt. The skills are the same whether you've sat for it or not — you'd just rather learn them before the score report than after.
Questions on your own tell you what you got wrong. They don't tell you why. This is the why. That's the whole difference, and it's the reason people plateau doing reps alone.
Guess and hope. Or run a rule. You've already run the experiment where you guess and hope. You know how it comes out. Saturday costs you 2.5 hours.
Sat Oct 10 · 11:30am ET · Live on Zoom · No cost to attend