Preparing for the PANCE begins on the first day of PA school. You may benefit from reading the PANCE study plan they don’t teach you in PA school and learning about techniques to increase your PANCE score by 100 points. Give yourself plenty of time to prepare for the PANCE, both mentally and physically. The greatest impact of the new NCCPA pass rate will be on those test takers that are on the cusp. The good news is, even with an increase in the failure rate, the vast majority (9 out of 10) of students who prepare for the PANCE will pass! If 1,140 test takers fail, then, on average, almost 5 students per program are expected to fail the PANCE. With an increase in score cutoff correlating to a pass rate of 88% (with more test takers since there are more programs), then 1,140 test takers fail.Īccording to ARC-PA, there are 242 accredited PA programs. If 9,000 people took the PANCE in 2018 and the pass rate was 95%, then 450 test takers failed. So…if I barely passed the PANCE back in January, that same score today would be a failure. It appears that the passing cutoff changed. However, if I take the PANCE today and score a 350…I fail.Īccording to the announcements from the NCCPA, there is no indication that question difficulty changed. For example, if I took the PANCE in January 2019 and scored a 350 (let’s say that roughly correlated to a percentage score of 70%), I’d pass. How they are altering is still unclear, but history tells us they are increasing the passing cutoff score. The NCCPA announced they are altering the scoring of the PANCE. Throughout NCCPA’s history, although an increased passing standard typically results in a slightly reduced passing rate, over time the passing rate steadily increases. Based on the analyses conducted to estimate performance on the PANCE, it is anticipated that the pass rate for the 2019 PANCE will be slightly lower than the past few years. This trend is fairly typical of the historical standard settings. This indicates that the group of PAs who participated in the study agreed that entry-level PAs should demonstrate a slightly increased level of content knowledge in order to achieve initial certification. The recommendation from the 2018 PANCE standard setting study was approved by the NCCPA Board of Directors and resulted in a passing standard with an anticipated slightly lower passing rate when compared to the last several years. Scores typically decline for a while but gradually improve once the blueprint changes are digested and the test-taking community gets a better grasp of what new material appeared on the exam.īut wait, there’s more… NCCPA Announces Expected Decreased PANCE Pass Rates: One of the consequences of altering a blueprint is often a more challenging exam. There were significant changes in this update. It offers an additional opportunity for programs to provide PA students with another layer of academic advising and to guide their preparation for PANCE.Ĭopyright © 2022 Physician Assistant Education Association.Back in January 2019, the NCCPA released an updated Content Blueprint.
PAEA's End of Curriculum exam is one of the strongest predictors of PANCE score (r = 0.78). A combination of PACKRAT I and PACKRAT II was the best predictor of PANCE score and explained a large amount of variance (77.0%) in PANCE scores. The End of Curriculum exam, PACKRAT I, PACKRAT II, and SUMM I are statistically significant predictors of PANCE score (p < 0.01). Value of the End of Curriculum exam, Physician Assistant Clinical Knowledge Rating and Assessment Tool (PACKRAT I, PACKRAT II), PANCE simulation (SUMM I), and Objective Structured Clinical Examination in predicting future PANCE scores was assessed using correlation and regression analysis of data for 27 PA students from one cohort. To assess the value of the Physician Assistant Education Association's End of Curriculum examTM and formative and summative exams during the physician assistant program in predicting Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) scores.
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