You can take it from home
there's no correct answers. no way to cheat. it's like MMI...there are multiple acceptable answers/no right or wrong answers. I don't know how to stress this enough, but DO NOT STRESS OUT ABOUT CASPER. it's a very small portion of your application to only like 1% of schools that make up your school list. please, don't stress.
okie dokie...obviously one should answer the prompt (i.e. recognize the pertinent issues) and there are answers that are better than others. i'm just telling people to relax because one's natural reaction (if you're a an empathic human being) will provide an acceptable answer. I didn't prep for casper and I only did some minor research/practice for MMI and I ultimately did really well. And also, it's common sense not to supply extremely unethical/racist/sexist/insensitive answers. SO, me saying there are no wrong answers and to not stress to the people reading this thread is implicit on their knowledge to not answer casper/MMI questions with super unethical/harsh/discriminatory answers, and I think mot ppl reading this thread know that.
Would you say there's more ethical dilemma like abortion or patient's confidentiality, or common sense things such as how to avoid conflict, how you deal with stress, how you design a return policy for a store, etc?
For schools that JUST implemented CASPER this cycle, do you think their applicant pool overall would have a pretty low percentile rank? Since it's the first time the school is using it AND most people take it cold. Essentially, isn't everyone in the same boat with this new exam?
You have to take a screenshot with a webcam to prove you're physically there. It could be ghostwritten by a friend but you're just cheating yourself because its the exact same skills as interviewing, so if you wouldn't be able to succeed in the first place you're just wasting your time and money interviewing.
There are both ethical questions and interpersonal questions. I think abortion might be a little too inflammatory but everything else you mentioned is fair game.
Consider the possibility that schools using it for the first time may just be using it as a pilot, and will be studying how casper scores correlate with applicants selected for interview and acceptance using previous standards, in which case your score will have no bearing for this cycle. Its not really a test you need to study for, and if people have done MMI prep then they have preped for casper so hard to say that everyone will do poorly. Also some may have taken it for other schools in previous cycles.
Are most applicants re applicants? Have most re applicants interviewed at MMI schools at some point in their life time? I think we are talking about a fairly small percentage here.
i'd say Casper is more the latter!
You shouldn't make claims to support your answers on casper, and the questions are not really like that anyway. They may want you to give an example but they are looking for you to explain the process, not the specific circumstances. The markers do not have your file or any information other than your answer to that specific question, and have no way to verify any claims you make. Therefore you don't get any more points describing a time you had a conflict with a colleague when you were CEO of a non-profit providing life saving care to those in need vs when you had a conflict with a colleague when you were working on a group project in BIO 101, if your description and problem solving process was the same.
Unless they voluntarily disclose that it won't impact your application, no school is going to specify how they integrate it, otherwise students won't take it seriously if its not counted which defeats the purpose of testing it in the first place.
Well I did apply to Rosalind Franklin and NYMC, should I just go ahead and do it, and send it to the schools that I applied to on the list?
I understand what you mean. It's not a test where you can always find the right answer. But from what I've learned it can still be prepared for to some extent. People could practice beforehand through simulating question scenarios & learning what makes the 'best answers'. Although it might not drastically change outcomes, to my knowledge casper compares the quality of student's answers to each other to some degree. That means even doing a little bit better can set you further apart from the mean. Know what I mean?
They record you during the entire process.
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