Percentage of Deck General Questions Obtainable from the Provided REC Reference Materials?

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Hey Guys,

Does anyone know what percentage of the Deck General exam questions answers are obtainable from the provided REC reference materials?

Thanks,

Pat

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Don’t know the percentage, but last year took the C/M test and printed out like 50 questions.

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Did you mean you were able to look up 50 of the questions when you took the exam?

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The NMC web site has a sample exam for every exam they administer. So you will be able to see the number of questions from their data base that is in an actual exam

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Trying to remember and I think it was mostly for Deck gen 2 that you can look up. Also significant number of questions for Deck Safety on the CFR’s. But on the NMC site their is a data base, it doesn’t go far back but it helps. I took the LAP course in MITAGS, they have a pile of questions from previous years data base. Remember spending like a week looking in the CFR’s for more than 12 hours everyday. So DG-1 and RR is what you can remember, again each test is different. They threw a stability problem in DS. LAPWARE helps extremely…

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That is true.

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Best bet is to tail the sample exams, the specific types of questions that are focused on per those sample exams and just dial in on those categories. I recently tested using that method and barely had to consult a reference material or CFR other than looking up definitions in bowditch of which the REC I went to only offered the 2019 Bowditch and not the older version.

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Thanks for the suggestions Wharf Rat!