Step I FA enough for behavioral science?

Started by tiedyeddog
Get help with your application

Use all the free resources available to you from SDN: articles, guides, expert advising, forums discussions, and school research.

Browse articles Compare schools My application plan Read Interview Feedback
Practice for interviews Ask an Advisor
Sort by date Sort by votes
tiedyeddog said:
Ok, what about FA + kaplans Qbank +UW?

I guess my question is do I need to a review book specifically for BS?
Click to expand...

I went through both HY and BRS Behavioral. HY was useless across the board. BRS was great for building foundation, but in retrospect, I actually don't think it helped me get any additional questions correct on my real exam. The behavioral that will show up on your exam will mostly be ethical situations that you can't really study for. After I finished my exam, I felt that I practically could have spent zero minutes on behavioral for the past year and still had answered those questions.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Phloston said:
I went through both HY and BRS Behavioral. HY was useless across the board. BRS was great for building foundation, but in retrospect, I actually don't think it helped me get any additional questions correct on my real exam. The behavioral that will show up on your exam will mostly be ethical situations that you can't really study for. After I finished my exam, I felt that I practically could have spent zero minutes on behavioral for the past year and still had answered those questions.
Click to expand...

thanks for the explanation, this is exactly what I needed to know. 🙂
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Phloston said:
I went through both HY and BRS Behavioral. HY was useless across the board. BRS was great for building foundation, but in retrospect, I actually don't think it helped me get any additional questions correct on my real exam. The behavioral that will show up on your exam will mostly be ethical situations that you can't really study for. After I finished my exam, I felt that I practically could have spent zero minutes on behavioral for the past year and still had answered those questions.
Click to expand...

Thank god. I definitely didn't feel like studying BRS Behavioral too intently.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
There is obviously the chance that you could get a question on abortion, reportable diseases, abuse, etc., where it might be helpful to have studied that stuff beforehand, but most behavioral questions on the real deal are just ethical situations that you need to use your social-IQ to work through. As I said before, I could have answered all of the behavioral questions that showed up on my particular form without having even studied. I hated / still hate behavioral. I wish I had never studied for it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.