PCE- Thumb Rule

Rule of the game is just stick to basics. No hi-fi stuff needed, only basics.
Review basics, review the SOAP format good, nerve supply, actions, review TMJ, shoulder
assessment, hip, knee. Stroke, brain areas affected, sci, levels, ms, respiratory diseases, blood
gases, effect of blood gases, amputations, items included in subjective/objective assessment - try to
confuse with these questions, brain injury - ranchos stages, types of exercises & precautions after
hip, knee surgeries (tkr, thr, acl - pcl reconstruction).
Very basic stuff - will just give 2-3 symptoms and will ask to predict the diagnosis. The sample
questions by Alliance is the exact format and kind of basic questions asked. The hard part is that the
objective type questions choices are so close that you get confused and can make silly mistakes.
So, just go ahead study, the questions in US exam are totally different, Canadian exam questions are
very basic questions. So just stick to
basics.
Read the US exam review book every chapter, it has all the stuff - musculoskeletal, cardiovascular,
neuro and check ure weaknesses, the stuff or topic that you have never touched or reviewed or think
you are weak at.
Devote 2-3 hours everyday and review the stuff.
It's pretty hard to predict what to read or not to read coz the syllabus is very vast.
So read or try to touch atleast everything, but first the topics that you never touched or you are weak
at.
Most of us are weak in Cardio, cp, stroke or Neuro on the whole, ortho most of us is strong so
concentrate on weak stuff more. Basic questions like OA, RA heberdon nodes are found in ?? Knee
jerk depressed in spinal cord level or nerve root affected. Symptoms of UMM lesions/LMN level.
do not put much time in reading whole of kisner and Magee, read the grey boxes of Kisner, read the
precautions for exercise prescription for particular
condition, or post op cases.
The Special tests in maggee r very imp but just concentrate on the ones given in RG. (review guide).
Also go through the pictures in maggee is very helpful since a lot of quistions r picture based!

The books used are as follows

Sullivan
Kisner
6 week plan for knowing your weaknesses and this will let you what you need to read more (Cardio?
Neuro?Ortho?Medical conditions?Prosthesis?orthoisis/)
1st and 2 nd week:
Review guide(RG) reading
complete reading both these books by end of the 2 weeks. Mark the important stuff, payspecial
attention to the tables
Sunday: On the sunday of the 2nd week , take the 1 st practise test of the RG.
(do not take tension for getting a low score,ur just takin the test as a practise so that u understand
the nature of the questns that are asked in the exam)
3rd week: Again read RG but this time lil more in detail, (pay attention to blood values,muscle
detaiols etc which u didnt pay to earlier)
Sunday: again take the test of RG( 3rd sunday)
4th week RG intense reading( being thorogh with .... tables ,nerves ,muscles actions,MMT actions,
pay attention to small details .
Sunday : take another test --3rd test
5th week : RG revision
sunday: The RG TEST
6th week : revision RG & Rationales
most important books are for review
basic anatomy
Sullivan guide
Kisner
Magee
Red Book (review guide for US exam)
READ CYNTHIANORKINS FIRST WHICH wiill help u WITH MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AND
GAIT TO A LARGE EXTENT.

FROM REDBOOK READ CERTAIN TOPICS LIKE SPINAL CORD

INJURIES,ORTHOTICS,PROSTHETICS AND WHEEL CHAIR.
The syllabus is vast and the exam is basic, so its kind of hard to predict what to study or what is
important. so try to touch each and every stuff.
And let me tell you the question pattern in the review guide or book for USA NPTE is totatlly different
from the questions asked in Canadian exam.
so read the review guide for knowing the syllabus, but make your mindset for the Canadian exam
questions by reviewing the sample questions given on ALLAINCE WEBSITE.
ALL THE BEST will keep posting and I want you guys to post too, ure queries, your experiences so
that others can benefit.