Today I want to share with you the five specific strategies we teach our students to ace any type
of CASPer question. And this is really important because it's impossible for you and I to predict
what exact questions you're going to get on your test but when you employ these strategies
it doesn't really matter what actual questions you'll get because you're going to be able to ace
any type of CASPer question you're going to get on your test. But before I do that briefly I'll
introduce myself in case you haven't watched any of my videos my name is Dr. Behrouz Moemeni.
I'm the CEO and Founder here at BeMo or BeMo Academic Consulting where we help a lot of
students with admissions to highly competitive graduate and professional programs. Now over the
past few weeks I've been making these videos I've been getting a lot of emails about our CASPer
preparation programs so if you're interested at all to learn more about those programs all you
have to do is go to bemocasper.com that's bemocasper.com or click the link either
above or below this video to learn more about our CASPer preparation programs. Now going back to the
five key strategies that I wanted to teach you here they are. The first thing you have to do is
always remain non-judgmental so that's tip number one. What do I mean by that; let's say a scenario
presents a situation where you observe someone who appears to be intoxicated walking towards
their car and then the scenario says well in this type of situation what will you do? Now there is a
judgmental versus non-judgmental approach to this, the judgmental approach is this. You will say that
hey you know what there is absolutely no way I'm gonna allow anyone to drive away drunk
because they're gonna cause a lot of damage to themselves and also put the safety of others at
risk. Well this may sound good on surface but it's judgmental. Why? Because you're not hundred percent
sure that this person was actually intoxicated. You see most CASPer scenarios are intentionally
deliberately leaving certain information out so you cannot be hundred percent sure about certain
facts and this could be a type of scenario where you're not hundred percent sure the person is intoxicated
or not. Secondly how do you know for sure that if this person is walking to their car they're
actually going to drive away? You see there's too many unknowns and someone who doesn't have maturity of
thought is going to be judgmental and jump into a conclusion and say that hey there's no way I'm
wearing a lot this person drive drunk and think that they've actually done well on the CASPer
test. Well that's not the right way. What's the non-judgmental way to do this - you first need
to gather all the facts. This actually brings us to tip number two. Gathering all the facts
before making any sort of a decision. So what's the facts we will have to gather? Well is this
person actually drunk if you are able to do that and you know this is not an urgent matter because
there's a good chance that person is not drunk and maybe you smell alcohol under breath but they're
actually suffering from diabetes which also is known to cause alcohol breath as a result of key
ketoacidosis in some patients. So again as you can imagine there is no way you'll be able to know for
a hundred percent certainty. Secondly how do you know that they're going to drive away? Maybe they're
drive walking their car to grab something from their in-car or maybe their wallet they forgot
their wallet they want to grab their wallet so that they could call a cab home or maybe they just
want to drive to their car to make sure the door is locked because they're intoxicated and they're
gonna take a cab home. You see there's no way for you to know unless you gather all the facts and
you got to do this by normally having a private conversation with the individuals involved if it's
not an emergency situation and the time allows and you do this cut in a private setting, why, because
it shows that you're professional and you're not gonna embarrass someone especially if it's not
a in front of everybody else especially if it's not an urgent matter. This brings us to strategy
number three. Strategy number three says you need to realize who is directly versus indirectly
involved. Okay let's go back to our scenario if this person is driving to their car and they're
intoxicated sorry they're walking to their car and they're intoxicated and there's a chance that
they will drive away well who is directly involved the person who's directly involved is themselves
so their own safety's at risk. Who is indirectly involved? Other sort of parties that are indirectly
involved are any sort of bystanders. This person might drive away and hit another car he
may hit other pedestrians. Who else is indirectly involved? Well you know the whole community and
large is indirectly involved because if this person actually does drive away intoxicated and
actually does in the process hit someone or cause an accident this could bring the entire community
the surrounding community involved because they're loved ones are going to be impacted or their
property is going to be impacted if there's property damage. So you see this is a skill that
only comes with a lot of practice and it shows without any sort of a doubt that the individual
has maturity of thought because most applicants will get rejected don't have this type of maturity
of thought and they only see things in black and white. So that's tip number three now moving on to
tip number four for acing any type of CASPer question and that's realizing that there are
different types of CASPer questions. Yes there's infinite number of questions you could get but
there is about twenty or so different types of questions that we have identified that we
work with in our own CASPer preparation programs with our students. Here's the really cool thing: if
you learn to identify these different types of questions and have a strategy for each of them
then you're going to be able to ace any CASPer question any day of the week it's as simple as
that. Now this brings us to the final tip which is tip number five and that one involves making sure
that you after you identify the different types of questions you also have to identify
the most pressing issue in each scenario. You see each scenario is really complicated just like real life
remember CASPer scenarios are normally based on real life situations they are not limited to any
sort of profession and just like real life you need to be able to show that you have the maturity of thought
and the decision-making capability to pinpoint the most pressing issue and address that using
if-then strategy. So going back to our original scenario here's what I would do: what's the most
pressing issue well the most pressing issue is the safety of the person who may drive away and
those of others who may be on the road. That's the most pressing issue the safety of others. And
what how would I address this question using if-then strategy? Well this is what I would do:
I would say if it turns out that this individual is indeed intoxicated and they're indeed going to
drive away then I will do X Y Z to make sure this doesn't happen so that you know no one has put at
harm's ways. On the other hand if it turns out that maybe they're not going to drive away well there
is no cause for concern, maybe I'll just offer to help them call a cab. You see there's sort of
this if-then strategy you could employ and this is going to allow you to answer any type of question
if we do this correctly it also allows you not to sound judgmental or you know leave any sort of
piece of important information out as long as you address the most pressing issue. So that was it for
me, if you're interested to learn more about our CASPer preparation programs, again as I mentioned,
you can click the link either above or below this video or go to bemocasper.com that's bemocasper.com
and you learn more and if you enjoyed this video as much as I enjoyed making it for you
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