The written exam is basically like this. Your patient's case is like this (then they give the medical diagnosis plus some symptoms and observations).... The follow up questions are: explain what evaluation procedures you are going to do for the patient. What treatment procedures are you going to do?

For the musculoskeletal question it was like what is the likely cause of the patient's symptoms? Why? Plus what evaluation and treatment procedures will you do?

Basically you have to prepare for the exam by memorizing what evaluation and treatment procedures you have to do for each case. You have to be prepared with hypothetical cases that you can recall on the spot before you take the exam as the time is VERY limited.

The cases for the written part were Parkinson's, cervical disc herniation, COPD, and any of the following: weakness of pelvic floor muscles after pregnancy, OR some knee injury.

For the practical exam you have 5 minutes to read and remember the symptoms and observations of the patient and then you perform your evaluation on a student (who is not familliar with the case, do not believe what the student says as that was my mistake) The expected results of evaluations must be clear in your mind as you proceed. After that you will be asked what treatment you will give and asked to demonstrate a treatment procedure. I'm not sure if the alloted time for all the demos was 20 or 15 minutes but it was pretty short for me.

The cases for the practical exam were stroke (they provided a video of the gait pattern and you had to base your assessment and treatment on that). Other cases were Asthma, and some lower cervical/upper thoracic musculoskeletal problem the patient got from playing tug of war.

Other tips:
You don't have to read the electrotherapy and pediatric reference book.

The stroke rehab book by carr and shepherd was nice but i wasn't able to use the techniques listed there.

I think you still have to read the vertebral and peripheral mobilization books although the latest editions are better.

Please do not expect that the cases for this exam will be the same ones in the next as I have ehard that in previous exams they had different cases and some were even asked to perform suctioning in the cardiopulmo practicals.

I don't think the examiners based the exam on the books listed on the nanyang poly website so if i were you I'd go for general PT books like the one by Sullivan and Siegelman for studying for the US boards. Outlines of assessment and treatment programs are there.

There were ten of us who took the exam. I got in touch with most after taking the exam, including an Indian who already had a master's degree. None of us passed. But the Indian is now practicing because he got married to a PR.

This should give you some edge in taking the exam. Please tell me if you made it or not and share some tips.

Good luck.