Exam format · 5 min
You need 70%. That is about 42 wrong, not a vibe.
One in three items can go sideways. Eastern and treatment planning are where that budget disappears.
Seventy percent of 140 is 98 correct. You can miss about 42. That sounds roomy until you donate 10 Eastern items you never drilled and another dozen treatment-planning stems you read like a spa menu. The math is not motivational. It is a budget.
NYSED does not publish a clean public pass-rate dashboard you should treat as gospel. Anyone quoting a precise statewide percentage in a Facebook thread is guessing. Study like the cut score is real and the internet is not your score report.
Where a 42-miss budget dies first
Area (this product's blueprint)
Ethics and ads look 'obvious' until they are not
Stroke-to-stem mismatches
Two reasonable options; you pick the cute one
You cannot plan what you did not see
Eastern / TCM (inside the mix)
A 14% haircut before Western even starts
98 of 140. The rest is not extra credit.
Keep reading
March or September: pick a date and work backward
Exam format · 6 min
Treatment planning is 37 questions of “what would you do”
Clinical science · 6 min
The 20 Eastern questions are not extra credit
Clinical science · 7 min
If you fail in March, you do not 'review harder' until September
Exam format · 6 min
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