Hi Else,

First of all, congratulations for passing the PCE written part. It is great information what you wrote in the last post regarding your experiences with the first written part of the PCE.

That is right American licence exams are different basically from the Canadian PCE. I think the American one is sort of theortical questions even containing anatomy questions, on the other hand the Canadian PCE exam is kind of practical case studies what is called vigenettes with several questions regarding every case. Actually, I printed the blueprints of the PCE to keep them beside me while studying. However, I will recieve the eligibility letter this week from the Alliance to apply for the PCE exam, I am hoping to take it next November.

Oh, yes, I can imgaine how it is diffcult to fly from UK then take the exam. I think you needed some sort of rest before taking the exam and good sleep. That is right some sample and questions similar to the test can be helpful. However, you got experienced with the exam after the first trial. If we have 4 hours for 200 questions then every question has 1 minute and some seconds however there should be sometime devoted for reading the vigenette itself, so basically every question has 1 minute time.

I am interested in asking you what books or resources did you study ? Of course different from the Ameican licencure resources because they are worthless in the PCE exam. I am reading through the Orthopedic assesssment Mageee.... however, I am thinking about studing or reading through the diseases by disease according to the blueprint and I know myself I need to study well the Cardiopulmonary part because it is long time I did not go through it since undergarduate and I did not practise it through work.

best wishes
EMAD