Am I going to fail?? I'm going to be
honest with you guys that R.D. exam
is no joke!
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So HI everyone my name is Kim
I am a registered dietitian as usual if
you're new to my channel welcome go
ahead and push that subscribe button for
my regular visitors: welcome back. I'm
going to be honest with you guys that
R.D. exam is no joke! It's a hard aye!
Sometimes I think I'm in Canada so I
like to aye a lot. (Kiss) love to all my Canadians
out there. That R.D. exam had me very
very anxious. I'm just going to share
with you a few things I did to pass my
R.D. exam which may be helpful for you. If
you guys have watched any of my previous
videos popping up now. Click on it. You
guys will know that I did my internship
with the United States government so my
internship had a very heavy clinical
base and clinical foundation. So towards
the end of my internship my internship
director was encouraging all the
dietetic interns to go ahead and start
applying for a job because you're going
to be our R.D. eligible. So for those of you
that do not know basically what R.D.
eligible is it's when you're finished
with your internship, you haven't taken
your exam but, you can still apply for a
job and have a dietitian co-sign on your
notes. So that's what we all started to
do and I was offered a job before I
finished my internship. So I finished my
internship on a Friday and that Monday I
started my job. So what does this have to
do with the R.D. exam? So actually I was
not someone who you know took time off
right after finishing my internship and
just hit the books . The reason for that
is you know right after the internship
you need money, so definitely I was like
well you know why not kill two birds
with one stone get some money because
you know there's bills that have to be
paid and also learn as much from
actually being in the clinical setting. I
actually waited three months to take my
R.D. exam after I finished my internship
and during this time
I was working and I was studying. So
something that was always a little
difficult for me was memorizing the
whole entire list of medications and the
different micronutrients that it affects
so being able to work and to see how
solu-medrol can affect someone and to
see how all the other medications out
there could affect someone actually
helped me with my studies. Another tool
that I used was this book that I have
right here in front of me. I hope you
guys can see it's my R.D. exam review guide.
I actually got this book about two years
before taking my R.D. exam. Reason why I
got it two years before taking my R.D.
exam; another video popping up right now.
It was the only tool that I used to
study for my exam. So something that I
should have said with the Breeding and
Associates book it breaks down what the
exam will cover. So during the time that
I took my exam is said that 40 % was going to be on clinical and
community nutrition which I feel that
was my strong point. Twelve percent was
going to be on food science, food safety.
Ten percent was going to be on
counseling, communication, education and
research. Seventeen percent was going to
be on food service which was my weak
point and 21% percent was going
to be on management, marketing, quality
improvement, human resources. Something that
was always a little difficult for me
during the entire studying process where
these calculations that you find in food
service. Like finding the fixed cost?
Finding the number of servings from a
number 12 scoop size in a 12 gallon
container? The only thing I really
understood were FTE's, edible portion and
as purchased portion so the food service
was always a little difficult for me. So
certain things that I did as well
besides actually working in the field
and understanding why we do things in
dietetics the way that it's done and
studying for my exam simultaneously
while I was working, I had to learn to
relax! Because as I stated earlier I had,
I was just very nervous I was
nervous Nellie. Something that I did um
different relaxation techniques for
instance I would pray a lot and I would
pray often. I would pray right before I
study and I would pray after I studied and
I was like Lord Jesus please help me to
retain this information. I was hired as
someone that is R.D. eligible so if I
didn't pass my dietitian exam I was
going to be fired! Something else that I
did decide to do, the night before my exam I just
stopped saying because I said well if I
don't know it now, I'm not going to know
it. So when it was the day for me to take
my exam I actually had one of my family
member drive me to the site because I
mean the site was probably an hour and a
half away so that did give me some
time to review certain things that I
didn't know. So I actually got to my
destination about an hour early because
as I stated before in a previous video I
like to scope out locations especially
if I haven't been there before. I became
familiar with the location I saw the
amount of traffic that was flowing
through. During my exam I was a bit
shocked because my exam focused a lot on
clinical. Off the bat I kid you not, I
could've swore I was taking a pharmacy
exam. Now I don't remember how many
questions I actually got on the exam. My
dietetic internship director said
something to me; don't quote me on this,
like... like.. it was like 200, like 200
questions on the test I can't remember.
So the way how the test works you have
and don't quote me on this because I
mean I took my exam a while ago, about
200 questions if i'm not mistaken and my
internship director said the test will
shut off on you automatically as soon as
you get enough points to pass. With that
200 questions she was saying okay like
the test is automatically going to shut
off as soon as you get the proper amount
of points. So when I got to question like
180 I was like okay? I was like God why, why is
it my test shutting off, am am I
going to fail?? and 181 test is still
going ,182, 183 and I'm sweating and
then I pause and I
said a little prayer. So I got to question
188 if i'm not mistaken and my test
shut off: Congratulations you passed and
i was like all right. I'm a dietitian!
Because you guys know I had a lot
on the line. I had this job that I wanted
to keep at my local hospital and granted
I worked for three months so coming
right out of my internship I mean I
didn't get the time to sit down and just
delve myself into the information. So
there were six of us in my dietetic
internship class and one of the dietetic
interns took her test, she was the first
one, she took her test like three weeks
after the internship finished and I was
the second to last person to take my
test. And also got like a lot of
situational questions where two answers
could be right but, it uses it likes to
use you know what is the best answer.
So these are just a few tips, few
things that I did to pass my R.D. exam. For
other dietitians out there please
leave in the comments section below what
are some things that you did to pass
your R.D. exam? What are some tips that
you want to give future dietitians,
dietetic interns because now is that
season where you guys are about to take
your exam. As always remember to like as
well as subscribe. Thank you guys for
watching have a good day bye.
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