An independent, unofficial guide to the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) — not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
CardiovascularGI Infectious DiseaseMusculoskeletal NeurologicDermatologic EndocrineEENT GUHematology PsychiatryPulmonary RenalReproductive Professional Practice
| Content Category | Weight on this platform |
|---|---|
| Cardiovascular, GI, Infectious Disease, Musculoskeletal, Neurologic | 40 items each — largest categories |
| Dermatologic, Endocrine, EENT, GU, Hematology, Psychiatry, Pulmonary, Renal, Reproductive, Professional Practice | 30 items each |
Independently researched from NCCPA's publicly released PANCE content blueprint — verify current category weighting against NCCPA's own materials before relying on it for study planning.
The real PANCE mixes all fifteen content categories together within each of its five 60-question blocks, rather than testing them as separate named sections with their own timers. This portal instead lets you drill one category at a time: pick a category below and take a focused, timed testlet (15 questions, or fewer for smaller categories), paced at roughly the real exam's overall minutes-per-question. It won't feel like sitting a real 60-question block, but it's built for honest, untimed-then-timed review of each category.
The real PANCE converts your raw score to a single scaled score (200-800, passing at 350) using NCCPA's own proprietary conversion, which is not publicly reproducible — and a small number of the 300 real items are unscored pretest questions you can't identify while testing. This portal cannot recreate that conversion, so testlet results here report plain accuracy (percent correct) on a fixed testlet, with a study-signal label — not a scaled score of any kind.