This is a great question.

This is a great question. How do you have time to flip through all the guidelines and stuff during the exam??? My practice exam I'm getting 58% and I'm struggling. And I'm struggling. The key to the exam is just to know your manuals. It is not meant to memorize it. It is not meant to be an expert in it. So read through your guidelines every time you have a scenario. When you have a day that you feel like if you were to sit down and do a scenario or do whatever, and you do not think that you would retain or do anything, just sit and just read. You're going to retain more on those days when you don't push your brain and you just read and try to absorb that it's going to start to somewhat make sense. Again, you're not going to memorize it, but you're going to remember, oh yeah, when I have a cabbage, there's guidelines that I need to go to for that when I have a scenario that has HIV or AIDS and I'm coding the diagnosis codes, there are guidelines that go with that. Anytime we're in pregnancy, there are guidelines that I need to make sure that I'm consulting. So it's not a matter of you always have to go and look, but if you know the topics that are located in the guidelines and when to go to them, then it kind of helps it go faster. Now, the other thing that I always like to recommend is do practice exams. Do as many scenarios as you possibly can. If you're not in the manuals and you are not in them every day, and you're doing scenarios in one way, shape or form, then you are not taking full advantage of what those manuals have to offer. Again, it's not a matter of memorizing, it's a matter of knowing when things are there, where to go, and how to quickly and effectively flip through those. So hopefully that helps. If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to reach out.