Are you looking for good study guide tools to help you pass the LMSW exam?
This post will provide you with links to free sample practice exams, as well as helpful study guide tools and information about a wonderful google+ hangout study group.
Below are links to sites that allow you to take a Free Sample Practice Exam:
AATBS
Academic Review
LEAP
Socialworkexam.com Daily Quiz Question
Socialworkexam Practice Test
Social Work Exam Zone - 20 practice questions
Each of these sites provide free access to one free sample exam because they are hoping that you will become interested in paying for access to their additional practice exams and/or study course.
Helpful Study Guides/Tools
LMSW flashcards - are helpful for quick reviews; there are tons of free flashcards for all the content areas covered in the social work licensure exams.
Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development - Erik Erikson's theory and a quiz to test your knowledge of it.
LCSW Study Buddy blog - covers the ego defense mechanisms with easy-to-understand examples, and provides nice comparison charts of Erikson's vs. Freud's stages of development
Studying for the Clinical Social Work Exam blog - very thorough posts that follow the content areas in the ASWB "Content Outlines & KSAs" booklet.
Social Work Podcasts - excellent podcasts covering some of the subject areas covered on exam
How to Avoid Choking Under Pressure to Perform - podcast to listen to to address test anxiety
Participate in a Google+ Study Group
Step 1: Join Google+ (watch this video for an intro to Google+ )
You can either join google+ on your own or you can ask for an invitation from Cam Murdock, the study group's leader, to join. To do so, you will need a gmail email account.
If you want to ask Cam for the invite, send an email from your gmail email account to LCSWStudyGroup@gmail.com.
Alternatively, if you are already on google+, simply circle Cam Murdock.
Step 2: Participate in Study Group (watch this video for info on how to join a google+ hangout)
Log in to Google+ at group's study times 3x/week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:00 PM PST.
In the middle section, the Stream, you will see a blue button that says “JOIN THIS HANG OUT?” Click on that and you will be instantly connected to the group.
Are there any additional tips or suggestions that should be added to this list?
Also, if you use some of these resources, could you please come back and share your experience? This way, the rest of the community will be updated on how helpful these resources are etc.
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Hi Dorlee...wonderful resource!
ReplyDeleteI shared this post in our LinkedIn alunni group and found out that one of our alums informed us that there is an iPhone app to study for the LMSW ($4.99) by ASWB that she says is well worth the price. You need to search on MSW to find it. If you search on ASWB what comes up is the LCSW exam app, which is $39.99.
Thanks so much for sharing the info about the iPhone app, Nancy!
ReplyDeleteI did a search for it and found the $4.99 version. It's located at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/social-work-licensure-board/id402910207?mt=8
That's so helpful that ASWB came out with a good inexpensive tool like that.
Hi Dorlee,
ReplyDeleteI passed my exam at the end of October and wrote a blog about it. Hope you find it helpful!! I took the exam 4 years after graduating.
http://naswnyc.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/passing-the-licensing-exam/
Best,
Ammu
Hi Ammu,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on passing your exam!
And thank you for sharing with us the post you wrote about the steps you took to prepare for the test :)
Best,
Dorlee
Below is some helpful information on preparing for the exam that was shared by Cam Murdock on Google+:
ReplyDelete100: the percentage of our study groups who passed the exam after participating in our Google+ study group! I passed the exam myself today, and I am very grateful to my study group cohorts, podcasts by +Jonathan Singer, posts by +dorlee m and the lscw.blogspot.com.
I would REALLY like this study group to continue and to help as many people as possible. It was the essential component to my passing the exam! This is the worst time of the year to put time into a new project, but I will be happy to see if I can convene a panel of recent "clinical exam passers" to re-launch the study group in January. What a great New Year's resolution to join the group and pass the exam!
In a subsequent message, Sam went on to say:
Since I graduated 5 years ago, your [Jonathan Singer's Social Work] podcasts theory and practice model podcasts were like a refresher course in things I had forgotten. I made CD copies of the podcasts and listened to them in my car, too. There are some other podcasts, but some had really basic Intro to Psych infor and others had inaccuracies and unscripted and unclear information, so I can't recommend any others.
The study blogs were somewhat helpful, but the Google+ study group I started was a great motivator. We met 3 times a week for about 1-2 hours each session. We made up test questions and we shared You Tube videos, web pages and advice with each other.
I also downloaded iPhone apps "Psych Facts", "Phobias 500", "3D Brain", "Psych Dx", and "NCMHCE01". Honestly, the test prep books I bought were the least helpful tools. I did a lot of prep, but I was only really stumped by 2 questions."