I cannot believe it, I am GIDDY in the HEAD with relief, shock, and disbelief!! Seriously, I was a nervous wreck before, during, and after, and had NO idea how I'd done...
THANK YOU THANK YOU a 1000 times to everyone here -- the wonderful, wonderful Andrews instructors Debby and Sue, whose tough-love grounding in the basics puts us way ahead of other coding students, to Glenda who had helped keep me on track and organized from day one, to Linda who first gave me the encouragement to try this...OMG I sound like an Academy winner lol...TO ALL OF YOU fellow students who gave me pep talks and cheered me on in my darkest moments, thank you all so much!!
When I calm down I'll be happy to share my tips and what I did to prepare, for now I will say that if I had failed, my number one reason would have been time management. I got bogged down on tough questions that ate up precious time, and had to scramble at the end making a few educated "guesses." My top tip: go through the exam booklet, find the questions you'll have an easier time with (for me those were anatomy, terminology, practice management, ICD-9), answer those first, then the sections of CPT you feel you know best (in my case, Anesthesia and Integumentary), answer the questions with one code first, and move on before you get bogged down.
Ohhhhkay, well, I still have Module 4 assignments looming, so it's on to those and the CCS!