Quote Originally Posted by lukefernandes View Post
also, i see people have recommended the o'sullivan NPTE book as a good exam reference? is this book specific to the american physio exam or the canadian? and if it is the american, is it really worth getting it to study for the canadian???
hello, lukefernandes

I bought the O'sullivan NPTE for my Jan 2008 written exam
This book provides summaries of different aspects of physiotherapy, sample questions + explanations and a CD-ROM with 3 sample tests.

I did feel the summaries are very useful, it is really good for the revision at the night before PCE exam. I tried the sample tests but the are really very difficult to me and thats y I gave up to do them. Haha....
The NPTE question style is different from PCE's. In fact, you can relate the sample questions provided by the Alliance. For PCE, you may be given a scenario and you need to answer some questions related to it. For NPTE( as I see in the O'sullivan book), the questions are not related to each other.

I suggest you to have a look at the sample questions in the orientation resources and try to apply each question to different joints, diseases and practices.
I know that there is a new version of candidate handbook 2009 but I don't know if there is any change to the exam syllabus. BTW, please check every item on the lists because I found some "RARE" questions in the PCE ( which scared my pants off ) but they were listed on the EXAMINATION BLUEPRINT!!!

For those questions related to local practice, you can read the " Context of Physiotherapy Practice in Canada" if you went through the PLAR

Magee is good but there are too many tests, just study the common tests for each joint

GOOD LUCK!!

Sanchill