 All right you guys so there are a ton, well not really a ton, there's really just three tests that you typically take for PA school. I guess you could kind of say sometimes four. Those tests include the MCAT, the GRE, the PA CAT and the CASPER test. And so I've had a lot of questions about the CASPER exam and what it's about, what is this exam, what do you have to do with it. People don't know anything about it and so that is what we're going to be talking about today in this video. What's up you guys this is Denna welcome back to my channel. Okay so again I've had a million and one questions about this CASPER test and I didn't have to take it for PA school. It wasn't something that was used for us when I was applying but now over the past like two or so years there have been a lot of programs that are incorporating this CASPER exam and so that is what I wanted to talk to you about like what is this exam and you know like how do you study for it because that's really the main question that I've been getting asked. So if you're new to my channel thank you so much for joining me today go ahead take a moment right now to subscribe and also if you are not new to my channel thank you guys so much for coming back to listen to this video. Okay all right so this video is about the CASPER exam and now you can go and find out all the information that I'm talking about on the website the CASPER website I will leave that for you but it is takecasper.com and CASPER spelled C-A-S-P-E-R you know kind of like the friendly ghost CASPER right and this test is kind of an illusion like it's elusive I guess you could say kind of like CASPER is but it is a situational based exam now what do I mean by that it means like it's giving you scenarios okay this is not based on anything academic like you would think of when it comes to your GRE or your MCAT or your PA CAT which are all about like the sciences and English and vocab and you know things like physics and math this has none of that this is all about situations and it's pretty cool because I think that's where I shined in my PA school interview I had a situational based question that was posed to me at the end well posed to all of us in a group at the end of our PA school interview it was our group interview it was the last and final thing that we were doing and we were asked to given a scenario we were providers we were given a patient and something like detrimental happened to the patient after we had seen them it wasn't our fault I guess you could say in a sense like it wasn't anything like oh we operated on them and then they had like a detrimental outcome but it was more so a matter of we were asked to do something by our attending and then it was done and now this happened to the patient afterwards and so they asked who was to blame and we had to rank the blame you know from one to five and for me I think that that is where I absolutely shined them the most I wasn't as shy as I usually am you know I was able to speak up and give my opinion and you know I really like um I guess like kind of getting into conversations and and I don't want to say it arguments but you know like I like banter I like when somebody challenges me to think outside of the box and I like when I'm able to challenge them as well and so in that moment like it just brought me back to like my elementary school days when we had like mock trials um and I was able to be you know put my little lawyer hat on and start talking and that is essentially what Casper is but um in a computerized like base format okay so you're going to have this exam that gives you several different scenarios that you're going to have to run through the exam is anywhere from 60 minutes to 90 minutes so an hour to an hour and a half it all depends on I guess you and how quickly you move through the various different sections um you do have a 15 minute break in between each section and again this is a high stick exam I did want to tell you guys that we are going to be doing a live Q&A with Dr. Adam Rush of Rush Review that talks about how to perform well on high sticks exams and so if you're interested in that you should go to getthatsuniversity.com to find out more information about it because it's going to be open to everyone I will send out a link if you have subscribed to GTCU and sent your information you will get the link so that you're able to be a part of this session because it's important to understand the different triggers um and the different things that make you perform well on an exam and the things that make you don't perform well right it makes you perform poorly on an exam and that is what we're going to be touching on this Tuesday in that live session so be sure to you know tune in for that but this exam is high stakes right this is one of the additional things that you have to do to get into PA school for some programs and so it's important to understand how you're going to perform on that and how you should I guess you could say or can perform well by using some of these tips and tricks this is not an exam that you can study for and I want you guys to be aware of that okay this is not something I can be like oh you know what um I need to go study situational exams no this is you this is about you and how you're going to handle a situation because they want to know the character of person that they are allowing to come into their program and that will be treating future patients in um you know the upcoming future once you've graduated from PA school so they want to ensure that the type of person that they're allowing in their program is going to be a great PA essentially so that is why most schools are turning towards this exam as one of the components of their application cycle so with the casper exam you're going to have 12 various different sections and each section is going to be either like video based or word based questions you're going to have like various different scenarios in that and you're going to have about five minutes to answer each um each of those questions in the section now when you're going through this again this is all based on how you would handle that particular scenario so don't like don't psych yourself out and think like okay well how do they want me to answer this you know because that is not what it's about it's about you as a person and how you're going to handle it and that's why I say you cannot study for this exam this is not an exam that you're actually going to be able to study for you just have to know who you are as a person and what you stand for and I think that is like the most important thing when you're dealing with providers and when you are a provider you want you know somebody of good character um you know because what is the saying that character corrupts good company or something like that um or good character is corrupted by bad company and so you don't want somebody that has bad character you want somebody that has good character that will take care of the patients that are going to care about their patients that are going to care about their colleagues and so you want to ensure that you're answering the question based on how you would actually do this in person okay so don't lie don't or don't try to think about how they want you to answer it because that is not what they're looking for the test is like kind of like algorithm based and so it will be able to tell you know like the type of person that is answering it if they see that you answer one question a certain way but then another question a different way and it doesn't quite like match up you know that's going to be a red flag as well so you just want to ensure that you're just continuing to make the the decisions that are based on things that you would actually do okay I've already told you that it's 60 to 90 minutes so that is something that you will want to keep in mind it is graded by actual like human beings not a computer um there are like I said some algorithms in there to just kind of see like okay like this is how they answered this but this is how they didn't answer this one but the overall grading of this exam is by a like group of humans okay so they're going to be looking at you looking at how you answered the questions listening to the cadence of your voice and the things that you're saying and then make their assessments based on that and then the scores are sent to the school directly how it scored I don't know if it scored on like one to a hundred I'm not really sure about that it doesn't really talk about that on the website but I'm sure maybe you can call them and see what they have to say but that is essentially what the CASPER exam is the CASPER test is again situational base 12 scenarios 12 different sections various different scenarios you're going to have 60 to 90 minutes to get through it it's going to be sent to your school directly and and you're going to be done with it and you're going to be able to prepare now for your actual academic based tests like your PA category jerry if your school requires those those exams for you okay so hopefully this gives you guys a little bit more ease that okay this is not something that I need to be completely super super stressed out and concerned about because it's not something that I need to study for I just go in and I take the exam like Adana you know I would go in and take it like me and you would go in and take it like you and answer the questions based on yourself and then go from there okay all right you guys keep keep trucking you guys you're almost there um you know again CASPER is opening up at the end of april CASPA the application site so preparing and understanding how all of these various different exams are and what they entail is important so continue to come back every sunday and tuesday for a new video from me follow me on instagram at AdanaPA and on instagram I get that to university if you haven't already on so go ahead and subscribe okay uh join the family and thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time bye