Understanding the basic structure of the test is extremely useful, though. Unfortunately, the information as to where those zones lie is proprietary information. Your goal as the student is to get your line into the passing zone and, at the very least, straddle that line.
As you answer questions correctly your line moves towards the pass region and as you get questions wrong you will be pushed into the fail zone. Conversely, if you've been answering everything incorrectly, you will get very easy questions which may lead you to believe that you came in overly prepared.Īs you can see in the image to the left, your progress is represented by the line that is straddling the "pass" and "fail" region. If you've been killing it, you will be getting insanely hard questions and may feel like you were unprepared. In fact, one can theoretically pass the National Registry by with a percentage score that would be failing in a traditional class! Because of this, it is difficult to gauge how you're doing mid test. The test is looking for you to maintain a level of difficulty that is above a certain threshold rather than a minimum percentage of correct answers.
How the National Registry is Structured The Pass / Fail SystemĪs most of you know, the National Registry is an adaptive test that gets progressively harder as you do better and progressively easier as you do worse. The CORRECT, SIMPLE and FUN way to prepare. Purchase Membership Now is #1 in EMT & Paramedic Practice Tests