I took a two year specialist in blood banking course at the ARC in Cols, OH, review at Gulf coast and read Technical manual inside and out. After all that I took the test a week after I got back from Tx and I thought I was completely prepared. There was a lot of clinical coag on the test and lots of things right from the Physicians Handbook (which I did not spend enough time on). I took the test in 2001 and had to wait an excruciating week to learn that I had passed! They say, if you think you did fine you flunked and if you think you flunked you PASSED! The review in Tx was the biggest help ever! Lisa B.