Behavioral Health Pocket Prep +12

I passed my LMSW exam today on my first attempt. I missed just 16 questions. This is absolutely because of using this app to prepare. I cannot stress enough how helpful this app was— the fact it can track missed questions, your weakest subject, and provides excellent explanations for answers was the best way for me to study. I did not use any of the other guides I actually bought. At first, I was frustrated when I got things wrong. But I made sure to read the explanations provided and eventually I started understanding how the exam questions are set up and definitely learned how to slow down and really see what the questions were asking. I even picked up research and DSM-V facts I struggled with in school! I was referred to this app by my internship co-worker who also used it and passed her exam the first time after just one week of prep. Please, give this app a chance. Do EVERY question in the question bank. Read the explanations even for questions you get right! It really did help me with the exam, even if I was sitting there thinking I had failed right up to receiving the results. I want to thank the developers— you helped me reach a life-changing achievement!

LMSW prepping for the LCSW exam. Love the ease of using this app! Clearly a lot of work has gone into writing the questions for this app. Love that content is up to date and uses Dawn Apgar’s prep text (which I am also studying). The new price structure is unfortunate (get the old app and sign up for the lifetime premium if you still can!), but understandable and hopefully most of us won’t need it for more than 3 months. One major critique: the writing of the questions frequently needs editing for clarity. Sometimes a word is left out or the sentence structure is convoluted, not following norms of the English language. This adds unnecessary difficulty to practice questions and I can’t imagine what that is like for a non-native English speaker. Please add additional editing review stages for grammar and clarity.

Back for a follow-up: some questions are not accurate. I had a question yesterday referencing pages is Apgar’s book which it turned out, had none of the content referred to in the question! I also just had a question that is factually wrong (about face validity)!

Back for the third time—looks like the copy editors updated the question above! Yay! Do I get paid for that? Adding another review because I found ANOTHER error and emailed the Help about it. Requesting a refund this time. Studying is hard enough without studying inaccurate answers!

I utilized this app recently for my LCSW studies and I have to say it helped me a lot. To be completely transparent I used this app, the Dawn Apgar book, 3 months of intense study time especially- Saturdays and Sundays (I work full-time, 5 days per week)and the Dawn Apgar 6 month subscription- I preferred this app though). I did a subscription of this app for 2 months and did all 1000 questions. I loved the fact that there was an explanation for why the selected answer was either right or wrong and also a review, if applicable, of the other answer options or why the other answers would not be applicable.
I loved the stats, gave a great boost of confidence and I loved the ability to flag and review. The practice exam felt real…my anxiety doing it told me so.
I passed my LCSW, 1st try, and I can honestly say the questions on the actual exam were strongly inline with the content of this app, even some things that were not in the Dawn Apgar book. I would not say throw out Dawn Apgar because it helped as well. But in terms of learning to answer questions and tracing the brain to answer then, given the volume, this is a great addition. Like I said…WORTH IT!!!