The first (official) practice test is in the books and I survived with some academic dignity intact. 62%, haters. Full disclosure of my mediocrity on display.
**See below for general review of my experience.**
1. Ouch, test construction, I thought we were tight.
2. Apparently all that Ethics work I've been doing is paying off. (Yea, boi!)
3. My clinical psych score is low, but in my defense I haven't been doing clinical work for a year--pretty crappy excuse, eh?
4. My behaviorist friends (Adria) should be ashamed of me.
5. Not to shabby on I/O. A shout out to the AATBS audio files for some exposure.
6. I should not be raising children, because I know almost nothing about development.
7. This score is likely to go up as I will not need to be regressing to the mean (holla).
REVIEW:
This test was a really good idea, it is Academic Review by the way and is in my "Things I've found useful" section. MH & EB both recommended this as a strategy for a good baseline. Also, if you only have free/hand-scored practice tests this gives you a chance to get a) total score, b) breakdown of subject matter, c) and comparison to the mean scores easily.
Among the advantages is that it will give you a good picture of your strengths and weaknesses and potentially give some focus to your studying, which I will not turn down at this point.
FYI...there are other practice exams by the Taylor Study Method and AATBS, similar to this one from Academic Review (PsychPrep has sample questions, but don't think it is in a full test format with scoring, etc). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to use one!
I am with you MS- Test Construction = 4/10: 40% :) And my Research score wasn't much better at 56%, yikes! Don't tell! -MH
ReplyDeleteNice! On my second one, I knocked Test Construction on it's ass without studying it. Luck of the draw, and will probably continue to be variable until I study it for realsies. :)
ReplyDeleteI won't tell. ;)