You're trusting FirstPassPA to prepare you for the exams that decide your career. That deserves a straight answer about where our content comes from, who checks it, and what happens when something is wrong. Here it is.
Every question in FirstPassPA is authored for FirstPassPA — we don't license or repackage another company's question bank. Questions are written to mirror the style and difficulty of NCCPA board items: clinical vignettes, single-best-answer format, and answer choices built the way real exam items are built.
Every question is clinically reviewed and edited by Ryan Busch, PA-C before publication, and every question is mapped to the current PANCE/PANRE content blueprints by organ system and task area.
We use AI tools in our content pipeline, and we'd rather tell you exactly how than pretend we don't:
Medicine moves, and board answers move with it. We run recurring guideline-currency audits across the question bank, checking content against the current NCCPA blueprint and current specialty-society guidelines (for example, ACC/AHA cardiology guidelines and their equivalents in other specialties). Our diagnosis outlines carry per-topic references so you can see what a summary is based on.
No question bank is error-free — including ours. What matters is how fast errors get found and fixed:
Reports are reviewed daily, and most confirmed fixes ship within days.
FirstPassPA is independently owned and operated. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NCCPA or PAEA. PANCE, PANRE, and related marks belong to their respective owners; references to them describe what our content prepares you for, nothing more.
Questions about any of this? Email support@firstpasspa.com — you'll get an answer from a human.