CPC Exam Time Management Tips (Part 1)

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CPC Exam Time Management - how do we manage our time? You are going to have some unanswered questions, it's very likely. Now if you are doing the hour per column method, it's very hard to leave some unanswered and stop and then move to the next column and flip your example. You got to picture this now. Remember, be visual and rehearse it. That little timer goes off, you reset it, and you figure out: "Question 31. I got to turn to question 31 in the booklet and start that second hour." Not that you're going to get graded on each column, but it will again give you that momentum that really push it. It's optional if you want to do it this way. That's what I recommend. You're going to have time to come back and try to answer those ones that are unanswered because it is 5 hours and 40 minutes, so if you're doing one hour per column, you still have 40 minutes left over.
You might find in another column you'll go so quick, you have time left over. You actually got them all done within the hour and go back to the ones in the other columns you didn't finish. The purpose of it is to get your speed up because you want to be able to read all the questions.
Now, because you're going to get 45 wrongs, this is what I recommend you do: Assess each questions. You go to answer it. If it's an easy one, answer it right away. If it's one that you know for you, you particularly have problems with or just scares you, rate it real quick - one dot, two dots. One is medium, two dots is really hard. Move on, just skip it. You're doing this in your exam grid next to the numbers 1 to 30, 31 to 60. Just a light dot, you can erase stray marks at the end of the exam. Don't put it near the bubbles; put it to the left of the number. That's your map. That scan form is your map. You don't want to put it in the booklet because then you have to flip through it.
It's a comfort level thing. You have to trust yourself that you can do this and that's why you practice ahead, and then move on to the next one. What that will do is all the easy ones will be answered, because remember, each question has the same value. A quickie medical terminology question carries as much weight as a cardiac cath, longish report one.
Don't over think or read into a question - how many here are over thinkers? Probably all of you if you're really being honest. Coders, they think, "They're tricking me. They're trying to trick me." "Oh I know this procedure. We do it in my office all the time." Oh! Now you're depending to reimbursement knowledge. Okay?
Deal with the facts that are right in front of you and that's it. Remember, it's a scenario where I call a blip or a blurp, it's not a full note oftentimes. Sometimes, you get an OP report that's a full OP report, but normally it's a scenario. "Mrs. Smith came to see Dr. Jones. She has been here two years ago..." That's not how a real note reads, right? Whatever they tell you, if they tell you it was a complicated yadayada and you go, "That doesn't sound complicated to me. They're trying to trick me. That's really limited. That's not complicated." You are over thinking it. If they tell you the word, the buzz word in the blip, take it. That's a gift. Take what they give you, don't overthink it. That will come through when you're doing your practice test. If you're an over thinker and you go, "But I thought... I was over thinking it." You'll start training yourself to not overthink.
When you go to sit for the real exam, you'll catch yourself doing that. Remember, your job is to pick the best of the possible answers. You aren't taking a scenario, ignoring the answers, trying to code it and see if your code that you got matches one of the answers. You don't have that kind of time. You need to look up the answers and then go read the scenario. I mean, except for maybe some medical terminology questions or whatever. Once you know what the differences are between the answers you know what to abstract for in the scenario, right? Because you're nervous and you're taking the test and you're reading everything and everything seems important, and you'll be circling and underlining and highlighting everything. Then you go look at the answers and then "Oh! They're really testing me on the difference between A and B. And you go look at, "Oh! It's A. It is right here."
If you keep that in mind that your job is to pick the best of the four possible answers, the answers are key. It's really what you want to start with. That's going to help you know what guideline they're testing you on.
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Thanks. These sound like really great tips. I will make sure to practice them ahead of my exam.

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