Licensing Exam Prep Articles

The NCMHCE is 11 case studies. Ten of them are scored. What is the format of the NCMHCE? The National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination is built from 11 narrative case studies rather than a bank of standalone questions. Each case carries...

The MFT National Examination is 180 questions, and the score you get back is a raw count. How many questions are on the MFT National Examination? 180 multiple choice questions. The AMFTRB candidate handbook says nothing about pretest or unscored ite...

The RBT exam is 85 questions in 90 minutes. How many questions are on the RBT exam? 85 multiple choice questions. 75 are scored and 10 are unscored pilot items the BACB is trialing for future forms. The pilot items are unmarked and mixed through the...

The PMHNP-BC exam is 175 questions, and 350 is the score you need. How many questions are on the PMHNP-BC exam? 175 questions. 150 are scored and 25 are pretest items ANCC is trialing for future forms. The pretest items are not marked and are mixed ...

The IC&RC ADC exam is 150 questions, and 500 is the score you need. How many questions are on the ADC exam? 150 multiple choice questions. 125 are scored and 25 are pretest items IC&RC is trialing for future forms. The pretest items are unma...

The CPLEE is 100 questions in two and a half hours. How many questions are on the CPLEE? 100 multiple choice questions. 75 are scored and 25 are non-scored items the California Board of Psychology is trialing for future forms. The non-scored items a...

The EPPP Part 1 is 225 questions. Only 175 of them count. The other 50 are pretest items ASPPB is testing for future forms, they sit scattered through the exam, and nothing on screen marks them out. You answer all 225 as though they matter, because ...

Six new adaptive behavior codes arrive on January 1, 2027. Codes 97151 through 97158 are revised, the T codes are deleted, and the guidelines change with them. What is already circulating online as "the new codes" is not the new codes. The six appea...

The BCBA exam is 185 questions. Only 175 of them count. The other 10 are unscored pilot items the BACB is testing for future forms, they are scattered through the exam, and there is no way to tell which is which. You answer all 185 as though they ma...

If your ASWB Clinical or Masters exam is on or after August 3, 2026, you are taking a different exam from the one most study material was written for. Not different content. Different structure, different length, and a different center of gravity. T...

Most BCBA study plans divide the weeks evenly across the nine content sections. That feels fair and it is close to the worst thing you can do, because the sections are not close to evenly weighted. Five sections carry 105 of the 175 scored items Beh...