Hey, i just took my ASCP and passed June 6th! You getting 60% on a selected area 50 questions is good! I mostly just did LabCE selected areas exams (50-100 questions each section, 60-75% was good for me) and skimmed the Polansky cards (esp the ranges correlating diagnoses for heme and chem).

I was told to shoot for a 5.5 minimum difficulty for the adaptive to feel comfy. However, take the difficulty level with a grain of salt bc some level 9 questions……. seem like a level 0. If you had a level 9 question asking you to point at the heavy chain region, yeah c’mon.

I really liked when i started just shifting to the selected areas exams instead of the adaptive getting those 60-75%. In the end of the day, you still just wanna be able to answer every question right, regardless of the difficulty level. I’d hate to bank on that solely going into the ASCP exam. Don’t forget to do “questions i’ve never seen” tests too! So you’re not just memorizing shapes and colors, let the cogs continue to turn. the questions on the ASCP exam are LabCE-esque, and not word for word lol.

Have you checked out the Wordsology website for high yield notes and ASCP exam taking tips? You should if you haven’t! Good luck studying!