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Many medic students have often wondered:  “How likely am I to pass Registry?”  Naturally enough, the best way to answer that is for employees of NREMT to do some number-crunching, since they already keep all the statistics handy.  They were even nice enough to write and publish a journal article detailing their work, which shows that a student’s chances of passing are related to some program characteristics (instructor qualification, program accreditation) and several student characteristics (including age, prior education, and whether taking the class is a job requirement, among others).

Some of the results seem pretty intuitive–people who had more education, or were ranked higher in their high school classes, did better.  Accredited programs had more students pass.  More educated instructors also had more students pass (although physicians running a program didn’t give a statistically different improvement, possibly because only 1.2% of programs are run by doctors–it’s tough to get reliable statistics with a group that small).  Not surprisingly, people who attended a paramedic program that weren’t there for a job requirement (i.e. they wanted to be there) were more likely to pass.

So what are your chances?  Well, I’ve put together a handy Access program that will estimate your chances (please note that, due to rounding, my numbers are sometimes 1% higher than the study’s numbers).  You can download my little creation here.  If you don’t have Access on your computer, this viewer may let you view the file anyway–but I don’t know that the calculation will work.