In the Throes of CPCE Cramming
“Things I Wish I Would Have Know Last Fall.” The working title of the book I might write when I graduate from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. I’m not bitter but there are so many small things that could have made this graduate school experience great.
And that’s about as negative as I am going to get. This blog is going to focus on my time as a grad student at the Chicago School and how can improve your experience.
I am in the midst of finishing up my semester and studying for the CPCE that I have to take in a couple of weeks. We are the first class to have to take this test and it is required to receive your degree from the school… And thank you for choosing us.
Anyway, I have found a couple of things really helpful in preparing for this exam:
- CPCE Secrets- It cost about $40.00 but it can be downloaded as an e-book which allows you to split the cost with a couple of people. It is about 158 pages of psychology goodness outlining all of the main concepts and theories.
- ProProfs- I love this site and have used it since the first semester. You can find free on-line flash cards here and someone has already been nice enough to put questions from NCE encyclopedia up there.
- GarageBand- I have been using the GarageBand software on my Mac computer to make podcast to download to my Ipod. It gives me another medium to study through rounding out my experience. Apple has made it super easy to do make podcast, I even have jingles, intros and outros.
- Encyclopedia of Counseling- Howard Rosenthal did a great job to put this book together for the NCE which shares lots of similarities with the CPCE. It isn’t nearly as thick on going over concepts as the CPCE Secrets but the question and explanations are golden.
I cannot stress enough that no matter what you think it is not to early to start looking over this stuff. I wish I had started casually looking it over at the beginning of the summer going into my second year. At this point in the semester things have started to tidal wave.
I haven’t taken the test yet so I will let you know how things go.
