Top four reasons why most applicants failed a CASPer test and how you could avoid those
mistakes. I'm going to share with you what those four mistakes are in just a second
but first I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Behrouz Moemeni I'm the CEO and
founder here at BeMo Academic Consulting or BeMo where we help students with admissions to
highly competitive graduate and professional programs. Most students seek our help because
they want to make sure that they put their best foot forward the very first time they apply
so they don't waste a lot of their time and money and energy going through the reapplication process
or they've been rejected in the past and they want to make sure that they don't make
the same mistakes again. So what are those four mistakes? Well here they are: reason number one
is because they either inadequately prepare for the test or they don't prepare for the test at all.
And this happens because perhaps they've been on an admissions site or maybe they went on the
test administrator's website and they have seen things you know mistaken conjectures such as
hey you know what you don't need to prepare in advance just be yourself or you know these
types of situational judgment tests are immune to preparation so you can't prepare anyways. Well you
know what that's completely false in my opinion you can and must prepare in advance. Let me explain
just like any other behavior you have acquired up to this point in your life
the behaviors and skill sets you need to ace the CASPer test or you know what do anything
else in life is a learned behavior nobody is born with skills that are tested on the CASPer test.
Imagine you could find a newborn baby who was already a professional. Well that's impossible that
sounds a little bit silly where now you know why this is something that you must prepare in advance.
Just like any other test in fact some students you know are already at a good baseline level
because of their upbringing but some students are not and they need a lot more preparation
and it's not just knowing the skill sets and having those skill sets and characteristics
is also the ability to convey them in a test setting such as the CASPer test so make sure
whatever you do you definitely prepare in advance and allow yourself at least six to eight weeks so
that you can adequately prepare in advance. Reason number two why most applicants normally fail their
CASPer test is because they mistake having information with having a personal strategy.
Sometimes students go online and they go on online forums or they go and seek help from Dr Google
and the problem with these sources is first of all you have no idea whether or not
those information that you find is actually valid. Secondly if they are even valid that's not
going to give you a personalized strategy. Remember your goal is to stand out from the thousands
maybe tens of thousands of other applicants but if you go on these sort of sources it's
impossible for you to stand out. This brings us to reason number three. Reason number three is
sometimes in fact students use the same sources that i just mentioned such as dr google or some
online forum to find sample casper questions thinking that if they review sample questions
that's sufficient and they're going to be able to hopefully do well on their test.
The assumption is that this is going to help them find something similar on the test but guess what
you are probably never going to find similar questions that you find online on the actual
test. The only way that we have found works really well for our students is to find specific ways
to identify different types of questions and have a strategy for each different types of questions.
If you can identify different types of questions and be able to have a strategy for them well then
it doesn't matter what the actual questions are on your test whatever questions they throw at you
you're going to be able to ace them no problem at all. Now this was the third sort of reason and
now this brings us to our last reason or reason number four why most students fail their CASPer
test and it's because they review these sort of sample questions and they also assume that their
response to those sample questions is the right response. This is a really deadly mistake because
if you assume that you already are able to provide comprehensive answers to those sample questions
you find or you know God forbid your help finding help from online forums or Dr Google to answer
questions then this assumption is going to carry over to the test where you go in and you have a
false sense of security and you start answering questions with this sort of willy-nilly way of
answering questions not knowing whether or not your answers are actually correct or not. So the
best solution for that is you have to make sure you first of all do realistic timed simulations
of the CASPer test not just reading random sample questions you want to put yourself in the exact
conditions so it has to be a simulated practice test that you go through and then once
you do that you need to seek the help of someone who is going to be able to read your responses
and give you objective feedback. So this cannot be friends and family because they cannot be
objective for the most part because they don't want to hurt your feelings so who will you go
to you'll have to go to someone who is for example being a test evaluator or it's
been on an admissions committee or perhaps someone who is a practicing professional or a medical
doctor or maybe someone who has at least got a PhD degree or for example a university professor
who is mature professional and can read your responses and tell you where you did poorly
so you can learn from your mistakes and figure out how to do better over time. That's the only way you
could learn how to ace the CASPer test. Now those were the four reasons we have found as a result of
our work here at BeMo and I hope you're able to take these tips that I provided for you so you can
do really well in your CASPer test so you never have to go through this test process ever again. If
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