I busted hump studying and managed to pass. I got hardly no experience in with exotics, and almost all of my large animal experience comes from growing up on a farm, not from my classes or work. I have no work experience in a clinic either, as all my extern sites were also at shelters. My first job was at an animal shelter, where I worked all through college. Well, I can't say for sure what's a better choice, but I will say that I honestly don't think actually working in the field helps with the test questions all that much. Good luck, snuggle your pet(s), and keep you chin up! A vet would be best to work with, but even a shelter or a riding barn would help a little. They won't think you are dumb, they will think you are not giving up, and working hard to learn your stuff right. Having the hands on experience to picture and draw from, I could link the mountain of information to hands on memories, which is really how I get a lot of it to stick.Įquine is your weakness? Find a equine/large animal vet that will let you volunteer with them a day a week or every other week. So for my preceptorship I specifically sought out an exotics clinic (because I really like exotics, but also) to round out my hands on experience. I worked in a small animal (cat/dog) clinic before and throughout my program.
I was lucky enough to grow up on a livestock farm, and exchange riding lessons for mucking stalls and caring for horses at another farm. Honestly though, I am not a very good academic student.
Sometimes I grouped my study topics by semi-similarity, like pharmacology and anesthesia, to better connect the whole picture. Some questions I had no idea, but I learned, and went to those chapters to review. So some of my questions I got right away (ones I knew well) which helped keep my spirits and moral up, and also meant I wasn't forgetting that stuff while I studied stuff I didn't know as well. You can pick and choose topics, which I used to study like this I'd pick 1 topic I knew really well, 1 I knew kinda or pretty well, and 1 I really didn't know. It has questions and practices quizzes/exams, and can really highlight where your knowledge deficits are. I got the online version through evolve/Elsevier.
I found the test prep "Review questions and answers for veterinary technicians" by pendergast very helpful. It is an enormous pool of information they can draw from to ask questions, it's a REALLY hard test! The questions are a bit randomized, so there is a tiny bit of luck of the draw.
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