PA didactic year module practice exams
Board prep usually starts two years too late. Module Exams give didactic-year PA students a timed practice exam for every module — cardiology through dermatology, plus pharmacology and professional practice — at the depth your courses actually test.
Pick a module, pick a length (10, 25, or 50 questions), and take a timed, single-block exam at 60 seconds per question. The didactic mix keeps questions at easy and medium difficulty to match module-exam depth — flip one switch to add hard, board-level questions when you're ready.
All 15 modules
Cardiology module exam →
Cardiology is most programs' heaviest didactic module — and the highest-weighted system on the boards you'll meet two years later. Practicing in question form early is how the physiology sticks.
Pulmonology module exam →
The pulm module runs from gas-exchange physiology to obstructive and restrictive disease — and its question style rewards students who can read a vignette's vitals and oxygenation before the answer choices.
Gastroenterology module exam →
GI spans the tube, the glands, and the liver — a module where anatomy, physiology, and presentations interlock, and where question practice exposes the look-alikes fast.
Musculoskeletal Medicine module exam →
MSK blends orthopedics and rheumatology — special tests, fracture patterns, and the inflammatory arthropathies. It's a module where seeing presentations in question form beats rereading tables.
Endocrinology module exam →
Endocrine is feedback loops: once you can reason from axis physiology, the diseases become derivable — and module-exam questions reward exactly that reasoning.
Neurology module exam →
Neuro rewards localization: where is the lesion, then what is it. Question practice trains that two-step faster than any anatomy atlas.
Reproductive Health module exam →
The reproductive module spans gynecology, obstetrics foundations, and breast health — a content area that later feeds one entire clinical-year exam, so early question practice pays twice.
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health module exam →
Didactic psych is criteria and vocabulary: diagnostic thresholds, timelines, and drug classes. Questions are the fastest way to make DSM criteria stick.
Hematology & Oncology module exam →
Heme is algorithmic: anemias by size, bleeding by pathway, malignancies by cell line. The module rewards students who practice the algorithms until they're reflexes.
Renal & Urology module exam →
Renal couples physiology-heavy nephrology with pattern-driven urology. The physiology half is where question practice matters most — electrolytes and acid–base only become intuitive by doing.
Infectious Disease module exam →
ID crosses every organ system, which is exactly why it deserves its own module practice: bugs, hosts, and presentations, organized so they're retrievable under exam conditions.
Dermatology module exam →
Derm is a visual, vocabulary-driven module — primary lesions, distributions, and time courses. Question practice builds the descriptive fluency the exams (and clinic) expect.
EENT module exam →
Eyes, ears, nose, and throat is a compact, presentation-driven module — red eyes, ear pain, sore throats, and the handful of emergencies hiding among them.
Professional Practice module exam →
Ethics, law, patient safety, and evidence-based medicine — the newest content domain on the national blueprints, and one most programs thread through didactic year without a dedicated course. Question practice fills that gap.
Pharmacology module exam →
Pharm runs through every didactic module, which is why a cross-system pharmacology exam is the single best integration check: mechanisms, classes, and the adverse effects that follow from them.
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What are FirstPassPA Module Exams?
Timed, single-block practice exams scoped to one didactic module — 10, 25, or 50 questions at 60 seconds each. A "didactic mix" keeps questions at easy and medium difficulty to match module-exam depth, and you can include hard board-level questions any time. They live in the app at firstpasspa.com/module-exams.
Can I use FirstPassPA during didactic year?
Yes — that's what Module Exams are for. The same 6,400+-question bank, flashcards, and blueprint tools carry you from your first semester through the PANCE, so nothing you learn in the app is wasted when boards arrive.
Is there a free way to try a module exam?
Yes. The free tier includes 10 questions a day, and the 7-day free trial unlocks everything with no credit card required.
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