Your Exam, Your Way

You have read this book and gone through several suggestions and recommendations. You will also read and hear a lot more from other CTAs, coaches, candidates, and experts while you prepare for your review board.

Some would recommend different approaches than others. If you speak to 10 different CTAs, you will probably hear 10 different bits of feedback on how they prepared for and attended the review board. Along with a significant overlap, there will be different points of view.

For example, some would recommend using MS PowerPoint presentations instead of flip charts. Others would recommend a different structure and time plan. Some might be entirely against the catch-all presentation stage, while others might support it. This feedback could be coming from actual CTAs, which means that what they have recommended worked for them. Yet, it might not work for you.

What you need to keep in mind is that there is no right approach. You need to figure out the...