I'm taking my CASPer test on Nov 17th and I'm looking for some free practice tests in addition to the sample test posted by the test creators. If anyone has any resources specifically free full length tests or tests that I can practice on for free, please let me know! Thank you for your help 🙂
Free CASPer Practice Tests?
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There is a mini practice CASPER online available for all students. But I agree with @Monster_Cat, you don't really need much practice to prepare. And yes, typing fast is a must. I consider myself a relatively fast typer(~110wpm) and still find myself pressured for time
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Even just two minutes more would make such a huge difference.
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Unfortunately, it's just going to get worst over the next few years as more schools adopt CASPer. Get in fast !!!!
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I personally think that any prep is useless, unless you cannot type. Seriously, the questions and scenarios are not even remotely challenging if you know how to interact with people.
Many people rank poorly on situational judgement tests like CASPer because they go in with the attitude that they don't need to prepare or can't prepare for them. Do a lit search on the fakeability of tests such as CASPer you'll see there is plenty of evidence indicating otherwise.....
Of course this attitude is expected of new tests. People had the same mentality towards MCAT and USMLE prep many years ago.
The CASPer test makers and the schools/programs using CASPer want you to believe that a test like CASPer requires no prep or that you won't benefit from previous practice ....so that the validity of the test is maximized.
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take-casper.com has two free practice CASPer tests. http://take-casper.com/sample-casper-tests/
Things are not getting easier that's for sure. There are now approximately 15 academic programs using CASPer. Expect that number to increase over the next few years.
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Not preparing for a test like the MCAT or USMLE is clearly foolish. What makes you say that was the case years ago? When I mentioned taking the MCAT, physicians I work with who took the MCAT several decades ago talked about the importance of preparing for it.
I'm talking about the days when the MCAT was known as the PSAT in the 1940s. The mentality was that you didn't have to prepare for it ( ie. No prep course or practice tests) because it was supposedly based on many years of past schooling so if you didn't do well you were essentially screwed and there sure wasn't an MCAT prep course or commercial practice tests back then... However, things are very different today and you said so yourself that it would be foolish not to prepare for either of those exams.
Countries like Canada and the UK have been using CASPer like tests for years and many of their applicants prepare in the way you would for the MCAT.
Countries like Canada and the UK have been using CASPer like tests for years and many of their applicants prepare in the way you would for the MCAT.
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Yes, it would be foolish not to prepare for an exam that requires me to remember a large volume of information that took me two years to learn. But if I need to prep to be tested on how I handle everyday situations, I consider that a problem. I prep for medical school interviews by ensuring I can answer any questions regarding my research, as well as questions specific to that school. I don't even think about the "softer" ethical questions ahead of time.
I am sure that you're right that prepping for CASPer may become another common expense. Many pre-meds are anxious and will do anything to gain any edge they can, regardless of what it costs. I just don't think there is any actual need in this case. Success on this test merely requires that you're an ethical human being.
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CASPer was crap
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Have a webcam set up and ready for your appointment. I suppose I did not read the instructions carefully enough, and I presume there was a note somewhere telling you to have one. They "verify" it is really you by doing so. I never verified. They never bugged me about it afterwards.
