PASSED ON THE LAST ATTEMPT, THANKS TO NPTEFF
Hello Everyone, I have also passed my NPTE like many others but my story is little different and I hope it will help motivate hundreds of people who have lost hope of becoming a licensed physical therapist. So this post is not about how great @NPTE Final frontier and why Dr. Singh is called the PT King, it is about resolve, determination and not giving up. I am a physical therapist from India and it was my LAST attempt (that is correct, I failed 5 times and all scores were less than 500). I read a post from Niraj Tankaria where he openly said he passed on the sixth attempt and how he wanted to help others, so no one had to go through it again. I approached Dr. Singh in May 2018, send him my report and said I am not even mentally prepared to take the exam. He said ‘I can work with you to identify weak areas’ and we agreed to go for Jan exam. Then I talked to Niraj Tankaria and found out he graduated from the same program and was my senior. He said we will work together till you PASS. In the last 9 months, none of these two or anyone in the NPTE Final Frontier team said a single time that I was a weak student, my scores are less than 500, or I will fail. They just spoke at a level of positivity, which I had heard from any of my professors in all my years of schooling. You literally have to talk to them, and feel it! I started attending classes, following the timetables, listening to what they said. If Dr. Bhupinder Singh taught a 5 hour boot camp with just one glass of water, niraj matched it with a 10 hour Sunday class to clear all doubts with just one snack break. They were on a mission and joined in. I started discussing tough doubts, I debated on why the answer was correct (even TMJ questions, scoliosis S and C shape, gait , EMG,), and they never had the arrogance of discouraging me. Dr. Singh encouraged doubts and answered them with peace and Niraj said ‘Your goal is to get your score withheld- means I have to jump 100 points or more, and FSBPT should be forced to think what changed your score. And on results day, the score was withheld, I was not panicked, I had goosebumps. It was like my destiny had already been written by god with help of Final Frontier and it was just unfolding in front of me. I texted Dr. Singh and said Score withheld, he said congrats and still so calm, and he said 11 people in our group are taking their 6th attempt are withheld and everyone will Pass, and rest is history.
Thanks to my backbone my better half who never allow me to work until I study and pass this exam against other family members! He fulfilled my dreams and always be my side whenever I get mood swings. My life is just impossible without Parin and my mother in law who treats me like her daughter and she had done so much for me from cooking to babysitting! I miss my father in law who always wanted me to pass this exam. But this one is for you dad .My parents who make me happy as always just by talking in video calls from India..
Thanks to everyone on the team I passed with Pride, and Dr. Shah is a licensed physical therapist ready to change people lives in New York area.