Licensing Exam Prep Articles

The Prep Room, Episode 10. 51:37. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A candidate fails her licensing exam by a handful of points. She opens the score report, sees "below" next to two domains, closes it, and decides the fix is to sta...

The Prep Room, Episode 8. 62:18. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A social worker gets a subpoena for a client's records. She has been told her whole career that confidentiality is sacred, so she ignores it. Two weeks later she is...

The Prep Room, Episode 9. 66:09. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. Two patients arrive at the emergency department on the same night. Both are febrile, both are confused, both are sweating and tachycardic. One started a high-dose a...

Most treatment plan examples you find online are written to look like a treatment plan. They are not written to survive a records request, and those are different jobs. Here is the pattern. The goal reads well. The objective underneath it does not c...

The MFT National Exam is 180 multiple choice questions, and your score is the number you get right. No scaling, no curve, no conversion into a 200 to 800 band. AMFTRB equates across forms so that a harder form is not punished, but what comes back to...

The NCMHCE is built from 11 case studies. One of them is unscored, nothing on screen identifies it, and you will not know which one it was after you leave. Each case carries 9 to 15 questions, so the form runs somewhere between 130 and 150 items, of...

The PMHNP-BC exam is 175 questions and 150 of them count. The other 25 are pretest items ANCC is trialing for future forms, scattered through the exam and unmarked, so you answer all 175 as though they matter. You get three and a half hours, which w...

The CPLEE is 100 questions and 75 of them count. Twenty five are non-scored, nothing on screen marks them, and you get two and a half hours for all one hundred. That is about 90 seconds a question. Before any of that matters, two things are worth se...

The IC&RC Alcohol and Drug Counselor exam is 150 items and 125 of them count. Twenty five are pretest, unmarked and scattered. You get three hours, which is about 72 seconds a question. Scores come back scaled from 200 to 800, and 500 passes, pe...

Most study plans are built around the calendar. You count the weeks you have left, divide the material into equal parts, and work through it. That is the wrong denominator. Every board publishes how much of the exam each content area is worth, and t...

The ASWB Clinical exam is 122 questions. Only 110 of them count. How many questions are on the ASWB Clinical exam? The ASWB Clinical exam has 122 questions. Of those, 110 are scored and 12 are unscored pretest items that ASWB is trialing for future ...

The ASWB Masters exam is 122 questions. Only 110 of them count. How many questions are on the ASWB Masters exam? The ASWB Masters exam has 122 questions, of which 110 are scored and 12 are unscored pretest items. The pretest items are unmarked and m...

The BCBA exam is 185 questions. Only 175 of them count. How many questions are on the BCBA exam? The BCBA exam administers 185 questions. 175 of those are scored and 10 are unscored pilot items that the BACB is trialing for future forms. The pilot i...

The EPPP Part 1 is 225 questions. Only 175 of them count. How many questions are on the EPPP? EPPP Part 1 administers 225 questions, of which 175 are scored. The other 50 are pretest items ASPPB is trialing for future forms. They are unmarked and sc...

The NCE is 200 questions. NBCC scores 160 of them. How many questions are on the NCE? The National Counselor Examination has 200 multiple choice questions. 160 are scored and 40 are unscored items that NBCC is field testing for future forms. The uns...