Hi everyone!
I also wanted to chime in on this thread now that I'm done. This thread helped me a lot in terms of gauging how much I needed to study and it was also helpful hearing about other people's success stories and study habits!
I ended up studying for roughly ~60 hours (i.e., 3 weeks) and I passed the NY cutoff of 75 with a sizeable margin. My main goal was to study for the least amount of time possible and still pass. I was lucky enough to have the psychprep audios, chapter notes, and both psychprep and ATTBS practice exams handed down to me, so I also did not spend much money on other materials- except for a EPPP app (~$30) that was based on the fundamentals book. Out of all of these materials, I would say the audio recordings were most helpful to me and especially the KEYTERMS audio where she spends two hours reviewing the main key terms. I listened and reviewed these key terms in the final few days leading up to the exam.
Background:
Ph.D in clinical psychology with high program pass rate (90%+)
Psyc GRE was an entrance requirement for my program. Personally, I felt that many of the EPPP material were the same foundational materials I studied for in my psych GRE. The main difference was that the EPPP focused more on application-type questions, rather than straightforward facts. Many of the mnemonics I used to learn the brain and developmental stages for the psych GRE were still useful for EPPP. I'm not sure if other people feel that the psych GRE was also similar in materials, so let me know if this was true for you!
1) ATTBS exam A: 64% (This was my baseline)
2) Psych prep A-E: I did these 'passively' (i.e., I was watching reruns and completing 50q at a time)- I DID NOT SCORE ABOVE 60% EVER.
3) Retired questions: 70% (I think this was an overestimate- there were several questions I answered correctly not because I knew the answer, but because I remembered them from the other practice exams). I completed this the last weekend before my EPPP.
Despite never passing a practice exam, I scheduled my EPPP based on the average scores people got in this thread. It seems like the general trend is 60-70% and my thought was that if I'm testing with you guys, and we are all getting similar scores, then the exam will be scaled to reflect this. I'm not sure if this was a correct thought, but it was definitely a helpful thought! Furthermore, it was helpful to remind myself that while psychprep (and other training programs) are helpful tools, they also want to make money off of this, so it makes sense that their practice exams are much harder and why people rarely hit the 70% pass rate comfortably on those exams.
I also wanted to chime in on this thread now that I'm done. This thread helped me a lot in terms of gauging how much I needed to study and it was also helpful hearing about other people's success stories and study habits!
I ended up studying for roughly ~60 hours (i.e., 3 weeks) and I passed the NY cutoff of 75 with a sizeable margin. My main goal was to study for the least amount of time possible and still pass. I was lucky enough to have the psychprep audios, chapter notes, and both psychprep and ATTBS practice exams handed down to me, so I also did not spend much money on other materials- except for a EPPP app (~$30) that was based on the fundamentals book. Out of all of these materials, I would say the audio recordings were most helpful to me and especially the KEYTERMS audio where she spends two hours reviewing the main key terms. I listened and reviewed these key terms in the final few days leading up to the exam.
Background:
Ph.D in clinical psychology with high program pass rate (90%+)
Psyc GRE was an entrance requirement for my program. Personally, I felt that many of the EPPP material were the same foundational materials I studied for in my psych GRE. The main difference was that the EPPP focused more on application-type questions, rather than straightforward facts. Many of the mnemonics I used to learn the brain and developmental stages for the psych GRE were still useful for EPPP. I'm not sure if other people feel that the psych GRE was also similar in materials, so let me know if this was true for you!
1) ATTBS exam A: 64% (This was my baseline)
2) Psych prep A-E: I did these 'passively' (i.e., I was watching reruns and completing 50q at a time)- I DID NOT SCORE ABOVE 60% EVER.
3) Retired questions: 70% (I think this was an overestimate- there were several questions I answered correctly not because I knew the answer, but because I remembered them from the other practice exams). I completed this the last weekend before my EPPP.
Despite never passing a practice exam, I scheduled my EPPP based on the average scores people got in this thread. It seems like the general trend is 60-70% and my thought was that if I'm testing with you guys, and we are all getting similar scores, then the exam will be scaled to reflect this. I'm not sure if this was a correct thought, but it was definitely a helpful thought! Furthermore, it was helpful to remind myself that while psychprep (and other training programs) are helpful tools, they also want to make money off of this, so it makes sense that their practice exams are much harder and why people rarely hit the 70% pass rate comfortably on those exams.