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You have an AGACNP-BC date. Hold it. Between now and then: 548 questions with all four options explained. Two timed practice exams at the full 175 items. A 13-day plan built on the current ANCC outline. No login, no expiry.
We built this the way a good preceptor runs a board review, not the way a shelf gets filled. We started from ANCC's Test Content Outline, the edition effective 17 March 2025. The exam delivers 175 items in three and a half hours: 150 scored, plus 25 pretest items you will never be able to point to. Clinical Practice is 43 percent of it, Professional Role 33 percent, Core Competencies 24 percent. So nine teaching days go to Clinical Practice and two to Professional Role, because a third of your score lives there. Check us against ANCC's published outline, domain by domain. We would rather you did.
What's inside
548 original questions, all four options explained. You finish an item knowing why this patient's trajectory decides it, and why the more aggressive option was still wrong.
Two full-length practice exams at 175 items, the number you actually sit, sharing no questions between them. Both are weighted to the three domains at their published percentages.
Nine days inside Clinical Practice, ordered by acute-care body system. Cardiovascular gets two: one for acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and dysrhythmias, one for hemodynamics, shock states and vasoactive therapy.
Two full days on Professional Role. Scope, consent and capacity, goals of care, documentation, quality improvement, the structured handoff. A third of the exam, not a footnote.
Hemodynamic profiles you have to read, not recall. Central venous pressure, wedge pressure, cardiac index and systemic vascular resistance, worked into vignettes rather than printed as a table.
A 28-question diagnostic at the back, weighted to all three domains, for one calibration sitting once the plan is behind you. Maybe the last review you paid for was a subscription that ran out before your date arrived. Give it three evenings. If the two cardiovascular days tell you nothing you did not already know, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three readers get real use from it. An RN finishing an accredited acute care nurse practitioner program. A nurse practitioner on hospitalist shifts who needs the credential on paper. Someone sitting it a second time. If vasopressor titration is already your day job, start at Day 5.
Day 6 is the hard one: sepsis, septic shock and multi-organ dysfunction in one evening. You will finish it anyway, and the vignettes stop looking interchangeable. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Every question here is written for this book; no real examination item or outline text is reproduced. Not affiliated with, authorized by or endorsed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. ANCC and AGACNP-BC are trademarks of that body, used here only to name the certification this book prepares you for. For exam preparation only; not medical, nursing or prescribing advice, and never a substitute for institutional protocol or your state's scope-of-practice law.
We built this the way a good preceptor runs a board review, not the way a shelf gets filled. We started from ANCC's Test Content Outline, the edition effective 17 March 2025. The exam delivers 175 items in three and a half hours: 150 scored, plus 25 pretest items you will never be able to point to. Clinical Practice is 43 percent of it, Professional Role 33 percent, Core Competencies 24 percent. So nine teaching days go to Clinical Practice and two to Professional Role, because a third of your score lives there. Check us against ANCC's published outline, domain by domain. We would rather you did.
What's inside
548 original questions, all four options explained. You finish an item knowing why this patient's trajectory decides it, and why the more aggressive option was still wrong.
Two full-length practice exams at 175 items, the number you actually sit, sharing no questions between them. Both are weighted to the three domains at their published percentages.
Nine days inside Clinical Practice, ordered by acute-care body system. Cardiovascular gets two: one for acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and dysrhythmias, one for hemodynamics, shock states and vasoactive therapy.
Two full days on Professional Role. Scope, consent and capacity, goals of care, documentation, quality improvement, the structured handoff. A third of the exam, not a footnote.
Hemodynamic profiles you have to read, not recall. Central venous pressure, wedge pressure, cardiac index and systemic vascular resistance, worked into vignettes rather than printed as a table.
A 28-question diagnostic at the back, weighted to all three domains, for one calibration sitting once the plan is behind you. Maybe the last review you paid for was a subscription that ran out before your date arrived. Give it three evenings. If the two cardiovascular days tell you nothing you did not already know, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three readers get real use from it. An RN finishing an accredited acute care nurse practitioner program. A nurse practitioner on hospitalist shifts who needs the credential on paper. Someone sitting it a second time. If vasopressor titration is already your day job, start at Day 5.
Day 6 is the hard one: sepsis, septic shock and multi-organ dysfunction in one evening. You will finish it anyway, and the vignettes stop looking interchangeable. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Every question here is written for this book; no real examination item or outline text is reproduced. Not affiliated with, authorized by or endorsed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. ANCC and AGACNP-BC are trademarks of that body, used here only to name the certification this book prepares you for. For exam preparation only; not medical, nursing or prescribing advice, and never a substitute for institutional protocol or your state's scope-of-practice law.
You have an AGACNP-BC date. Hold it. Between now and then: 548 questions with all four options explained. Two timed practice exams at the full 175 items. A 13-day plan built on the current ANCC outline. No login, no expiry.
We built this the way a good preceptor runs a board review, not the way...
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Passmark builds one kind of book: the one that makes your study hours count. We start from a simple conviction — a certification exam is a skills test, not a memory test — so we never hand you a wall of facts to reread. Our method comes from the science of how memory actually holds: you learn by retrieving, not rereading; you revisit on a widening schedule so it sticks; every answer is explained, right and wrong, so you keep the reasoning; and a diagnostic points your hours where they will move your score. We read each exam's current blueprint ourselves, write every question from scratch, and check every number in the book — question counts, domain weights, practice tests — against the finished pages, not the marketing. When an exam changes, our books change with it.
Passmark builds one kind of book: the one that makes your study hours count. We start from a simple conviction — a certification exam is a skills test, not a memory test — so we never hand you a wall of facts to reread. Our method comes from the science of how memory actually holds: you learn by ...
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