These examinations incorporate advanced HTML features, including JavaScript and Frames, so that a Web Browser equivalent to Netscape 2.0 or higher is required. Increasing your monitor screen size or resolution (800 x 600 or more), and decreasing the size of menubars will also aid in viewing. Specific instructions about answering the questions are given below.

Subject Categories and Item Types

Instructions

The multiple choice questions in the General Pathology, Organ System Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Extended Matching banks have three formats.

• For single answer questions, click on the checkbox next to the letter for the answer. The first answer you click will be scored, and the response will appear in the lower left frame.

• For multiple choice questions, you will click on the checkbox next to the first question you want to answer, then click on the radio button next to the lettered answer. Then click on the checkbox next to the second question and then on the radio button next to the lettered answer. After clicking on the second answer, a score will be generated and the responses will appear in the lower frames. For matching questions, the lettered responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

• For extended matching questions with 12 items, a checkbox must be clicked next to each question first, then next to the lettered answer. This is performed in sequence for each of the three questions. After the third answer is chosen a score will be generated and the responses will appear in the frames at the bottom.

• For extended matching questions with 20 items, type in the letter of your response to each question, then click on the "Check Answers" button for the scoring. You may then click on the "Answer Key" button for an explanation of the responses.

• Clicking on the "Laboratory Reference Values" button will pop up a new window over the top of the screen. You can scroll through the contents of this window to view normal reference ranges for common laboratory tests.

• If you encounter error messages, try starting again from the Exam Main Menu, or restart your Web Browser.