Just passed my ABOG exam — here's what actually helped

Congratulations!! This is so encouraging. Can I ask — how many practice tests did you take total before the real exam? I'm about 3 weeks out and trying to figure out how much more practice I need.

I also passed using a similar approach! The scenario-based questions are where most people struggle. One tip I'd add: read the entire question before looking at the answers. It sounds obvious but under exam pressure you start scanning for keywords and miss the nuance.

The 6-week timeline is almost exactly what my instructor recommended too. I'm currently at week 4 and feeling decent about the ABOG - American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology material but CAOHC - Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation topics are still shaky. Did you find the practice tests here covered both subjects pretty thoroughly?

Thanks for this post — bookmarking it for motivation when I hit a wall during studying. The point about understanding reasoning over memorizing is huge. I started doing that recently and my practice test scores jumped about 12 points.

Congrats on passing! The thing that changed everything for me was obsessing over wrong answers instead of just moving on. Every time I missed a question I'd ask myself why that wrong answer seemed right — usually it was because I didn't fully understand the underlying mechanism, not just the fact. Honestly that shift alone probably saved me. For reproductive endocrinology specifically I found a ton of good practice doing free abog reproductive health endocrinology questions where I could really dig into the explanations.

The exam loves to give you two answers that both sound reasonable and you have to know the distinction deeply enough to pick the right one. If you're just memorizing correct answers you're going to get tripped up by those. Study the concepts behind the distractors and you'll start seeing the patterns. It clicked for me around week six and after that the practice scores jumped pretty fast.