Social Work Test Prep

You may have had this experience–some of my tutoring clients have reported it:  You read a vignette and you get sucked in.  The heartache, the pain, the misery.  It’s all too much.  Your burnout meter goes into the red.  Or, harder still, elements of the vignette remind you of your own experience–family problems, relationship problems, [...]

Here’s a multiple choice test rule of thumb that social work test preppers should keep in mind: Read the question, then, hit pause. Don’t read the answers. Think about how you would answer. Okay, now read the answers. Do any of them match or even echo your thought? Great. [...]

A long page of licensing exam tips from Berkeley Training Associates is here. How to prepare, what to study, and approaches for exam day. Take a look.

Here’s another oft-repeated rule of thumb that bears repeating again:  What the board is testing for is basic competence.  That means that if you become licensed, they want to be sure you will do no harm.  

How do they test for this?  They ask again and again about clients who haven’t been screened for a [...]

This from a PsyD:

The questions on the practice tests are the same as the ones on the exam. Run the practice questions over and over and over…and over. It’s worth it. On exam day, you’ll know the questions, you’ll know the answers. It’s the same stuff.

Hope so. Those questions cost [...]

More pearls from licensed folk:

If a question has cultural markers (“Your client is an Asian-Ameican who…”), then you are being tested on cultural competence. The answer that is specific to culture is just about always going to be the one to choose. (Try it out on practice exams–works!)

There’s probably a licensed person or two kicking around in your life somewhere. Your supervisor, for one. How’d they get there? How’d they get through the test? Some of what I’m hearing:

An LMFT reports working with a test writer during the time he was studying. Her words of wisdom: [...]