EPPP Exam

The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) offers the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) for licensure and certification. For this test candidates are given 4¼ hours to complete 225 questions. The raw score will be converted to a scaled score in the 200-800 range, in order to account for different questions having different levels of complexity. To pass, ASPPB advises a minimum of 500. Most jurisdictions use this minimum score, but check with the local jurisdiction to find out the applicable standard. If a candidate is unsuccessful in the attempt, he or she may re-take the assessment, but candidates are not allowed to do so more than four times in a year. There is not a mandatory waiting time between tests, unless the local jurisdiction has this requirement, but it is advisable to let about 60 days go by in between attempts in order to properly prepare.

The subject areas of the EPPP examination are broken down as follows:

• Biological foundations for behavior (11%) - Biological and neural foundations for behavior, psychopharmacology and sustaining techniques.
• Cognitive-affective bases of behavior (13%) - Cognition and its neural foundations, premises and observed foundations for learning, recall, incentive, affect, feeling, and executive function, and elements that sway cognitive acts and/or emotional experiences and their dealings.
• Social and multicultural bases of behavior (12%) - Intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup courses of action and forces that cause change, premises about personality, and matters of diversity.
• Growth and lifespan development (13%) - Age-appropriate maturity through life stages, unusual patterns of development, and the defensive and hazard dynamics that sway developmental results that people experience.
• Assessment and diagnosis (14%) - Psychometrics, evaluation models and tools, ways to evaluate preliminary condition of and alterations by individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations or systems, and diagnostic classification organizations and their limitations.
• Treatment, intervention, and prevention (15%) - Individual, couple, family, group, organizational or community interventions for particular issues or problems in diverse people, intervention and prevention theories, best practices, and consultation models and processes.
• Research methods and statistics (7%) - Research design, methodology, and program assessment, tool choice and substantiation, and statistical models, best guesses, and measures.
• Ethical, legal, and professional issues (15%) - Rules for ethics, professional standards for performance, laws and limitations, ways to make ethical choices, and proficient teaching and administration.

As your test day approaches, make sure that you have had plenty of time to study. Review an EPPP exam study guide or study using EPPP exam flashcards so that you strengthen any areas that might be more difficult for you on the test. You'll have the rest of your life to enjoy being successful on the exam, but you can only spend time between now and your test day to get prepared. Study hard and maximize your chances of success.