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Social Work Test Prep Helping MSWs get through the social work licensing exam. Get closer to your LSW, LCSW, LISW, LICSW (and so on). Free practice exams, tips, tricks, success stories, and tutoring by an experienced tutor.

Welcome

Welcome, glad you found the site.  The mission here:  To help get you through the social work licensing exam process.  Among the many features, some favorites:

• A page of links to Free Practice Tests (from AATBS, BTA, Gerry Grossman, and the like).

• Help getting through the exam from an Exam Prep Tutor.

• Dozens of blog posts including quizzes, links to test-prep audio, flash cards, and lots more.

Please feel free to write with any questions.  Good luck preparing for the exam!

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Exam Prep Fundamentals

From PsychCentral, 7 Tips for Coping with Finals.  ’Cause what’s the social work exam if not a big, big final?  The bullets:

1. Schedule your time to focus on studying.

2. Don’t blow off sleep.

3. Shut down social networking and gaming.

4. Don’t blow off eating.

5. Try rewriting or summarizing your notes & chapters.

6. Don’t forget “me time.”

7. Cramming may work, but…

Reasons and details in the article.

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Achieve

Trying to pass the exam? Here’s a researched-based how-to from PsyBlog.  Eleven bullets (described on the site):

1. Stop fantasising

2. Start committing

3. Start starting

Continue reading Achieve

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More Social Work Podcasts

Always good/helpful listening.  Recently:

The Process of Evidence-Based Practice: Interview with Danielle E. Parrish, Ph.D.

Behind the Scenes at the Social Work Podcast: Interview with Jonathan Singer

Adoption Policy and Practice in the U.S.A.: Interview with Ruth McRoy, Ph.D.

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TM and the Test?

Transcendental Meditation May Improve Academic Performance (PsychCentral):

Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, “below basic” and “far below basic,” the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

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Overcoming Exam Anxiety

Anxious about the exam? So’s just about everyone else. Here’s a 14-page info/worksheet set designed to help. You’ll be brushing up on CBT while you’re at it. Enjoy.

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Exam Prep Mentor

Write SWTP to begin work toward passing the social work exam.  Get help with managing test anxiety, time management, and various test preparation strategies.  More details on the Tutoring Services page.

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Tutors Wanted

SWTP gets tutoring requests all the time.  Badly needed: tutors to do the tutoring!

Do you know your way around the social work licensing exam?  Good with test preparation?  Helpful with test anxiety?

Please send your resume and a short description of your experience with the exam and, if you have any, with tutoring to:

socialworktestprep@gmail.com

Tutoring happens on the phone, when you want it to–a great way to pick up some extra cash while helping people help people.

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ASWB Exam Changes

A handful of not-all-that-significant-sounding changes to the ASWB exam are detailed on this FAQ page.  Answered:

What has happened to the ASWB examinations?
What is a content outline?
Why have the examinations changed?
What’s different about the new examinations?
Why has the number of content areas been reduced?
Has test content changed?
Are the new tests harder/easier?
Has the passing score changed?
Are the questions different?
What if I have been studying for the 2010 outline?
What are KSAs?
Will every KSA be tested on every exam?
Can I choose which version of the exam I want to take?
Are new study materials available?
Are these materials comprehensive?
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Social Work Exam Study Group

Looking to form a study group?  Post in comments below:  Where are you?  What are you looking for?

Be sure to put a best way to contact you in your comment.  (Putting your email in the email form doesn’t make it show up in comments–you have to write it again!)

Good luck all.

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Effective Studying

From PsychCentral, here’s a list of 10 Highly Effective Study Habits (see article for details).  The list:

1. How you approach studying matters

  • Aim to think positively when you study.
  • Avoid catastrophic thinking.
  • Avoid absolute thinking.
  • Avoid comparing yourself with others.

2. Where you study is important

3. Bring everything you need, nothing you don’t

4. Outline and rewrite your notes

5. Use memory games (mnemonic devices)

6. Practice by yourself or with friends

7. Make a schedule you can stick to

8. Take breaks (and rewards!)

9. Keep healthy and balanced

10. Know what the expectations are for the class [or test]

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