The four strategies that we teach our own students to prepare for the CASPer test.
And this is really important because a lot of students over the past couple of weeks
have been emailing us asking us about different strategies to prepare for the test because
so far, in the videos that you've been watching we've been talking about the things you should
avoid doing and the things that constitute the common myths around preparation.
So naturally, a lot of students now want to know how to prepare for the test.
Now briefly, before I get into these specific strategies, I would like to introduce myself.
My name is Dr. Behrouz Moemeni.
I'm the CEO and founder here at BeMo where we help students with admissions to highly
competitive graduate and professional programs.
For example, we help a lot of students prepare for the CASPer test every year regardless
of the type of program they have to apply to whether it's medicine, nursing, pharmacy,
teacher's education or whatever it is, we get a lot of students that want our help preparing
them for the CASPer test.
And normally students seek our help because they want to make sure that they put their
best foot forward the first time or because they've been rejected in the past and they
want to make sure they don't make the same mistakes again.
So what are those 4 strategies that we teach our own students here at BeMo?
Well, the first one is pretty standard which is: you have to make sure that you practice
using realistic simulations rather than just reading some random questions online.
So what do I mean by realistic simulations?
I mean making sure that you have access to online practice tests that mimic the actual
test as closely as possible.
The advantage of this is two-fold: one, when you go through a realistic simulation, you
will get over the fear of the unknown because you've pretty much already gone through the
testing process.
Secondly, your brain will start to form patterns and realize that there's a pattern to CASPer
questions.
Although it's impossible for you to predict the exact questions you're going to get on
your test, but you will eventually start to realize there are different types of questions
for CASPer and when you learn how to identify them and have a strategy for each different
type of question, your highly likely to be able to ace any type of scenario or question
you see on the actual test.
In fact we have identified 20 or so different types of questions that we teach our own students
here at BeMo during the course of our paid training programs.
So that's the first sort of strategy to prepare for the test.
The second strategy is once you've written a practice test, you have to seek expert feedback.
What do I mean by expert feedback?
Well this has to be someone who is knowledgeable and mature and is perhaps a practicing professional
or it's someone who's at least got an education level at the PhD level or above.
This is going to allow you to get feedback from someone who could tell you where you're
doing poorly and how to do better.
Also they will also be able to tell you where you've done well and you should continue doing
whatever you've done well more and more as you prepare for a CASPer test.
So these first two steps, simulations plus expert feedback, you have to continue doing
this until you get to a stage where your coach or mentor is going to tell you that, hey,
you're now ready to go and write your actual test.
Because it does take multiple practice tests followed by expert feedback to get better
over time.
Furthermore, I should say when it comes to expert feedback you want to avoid the help
of family and friends because as much as they want the best for you, normally they cannot
provide you with objective feedback because of course they don't want to hurt your feelings,
but in this case, you really need someone who's going to provide you with objective
feedback.
So ask someone who's a practicing professional or maybe a university professor or someone
who can actually help you out.
So those were the two first preparation strategies.
The third one is: you have to know any sort of relevant news about your profession or
your future profession I should say, inside and out.
So you need to know what's happening in the profession, is there any sort of relevant
news that's important and it's been talked about amongst professionals within the field
that you're going to pursue in the future, just in case the CASPer test asks you for
specific knowledge of such current events, you need to have sort of an understanding
of such events because as a result you're more likely to be able to come up with appropriate
responses for any type of questions that relate to such events.
Now the next one and the fourth sort of strategy that you have to employ when you're preparing
for CASPer in advance, is you have to spend some time self-reflecting on your past experiences.
Because some of the questions on CASPer actually ask you about your past experiences.
Although these are not common, they do happen from time to time and you don't want to be
caught off guard.
For example, sometimes a question might ask: describe a time when you came into conflict
with a superior and how did you deal with this?
This requires you to be able to have a specific example from the past and when you do and
you have that right all ready in the back of your head, you're more likely to also provide
a comprehensive and appropriate response to that type of a question related to any past
experiences.
So those were four strategies I wanted to share with you, and I hope you enjoyed this
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