Cheryl Cuozzo, MSN, ANP-C, FNP-C, APRN

“Which exam are you going to take?” As you prepare to earn your FNP or AGNP/AGPCNP certification, your colleagues have probably asked this question. But how should you decide between the ANCC vs. AANP certification exam? And once you’ve decided, how should you prepare (and where can you find AANP and ANCC practice questions)? While read more…

Researching AGNP and AGPCNP certification exam details and the best exam review methods can be overwhelming—especially when you’re balancing patient care, your personal life, and now preparing for your NP certification. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of exam read more…

We already know the pass rates for the AANP Family Nurse Practitioner and ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner Exam hovers around 80%. This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Score by 100 points. 

While there is no magic pill or wand to significantly increase your exam score, these two techniques are the most useful, easy to implement and only requires 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 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 Family Medicine certification score by 100 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.

Researching FNP certification exam details and the best exam review methods can be overwhelming—especially when you’re balancing patient care, your personal life, and now preparing for your NP certification. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of exam review options read more…

We already know the pass rates for the AANP Family Nurse Practitioner and ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner Exam hovers around 80%. This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Score by 100 points. 

While there is no magic pill or wand to significantly increase your exam score, these two techniques are the most useful, easy to implement and only requires 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 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 Family Medicine certification score by 100 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.