Pocket Prep Behavioral Health 12+

Fantastic LMSW exam resource

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!

Well built; questions not helpful

I found the app to be well built and easy to use. The dropdown study feature on each question is as great. The practice exams and missed question quizzes were also an awesome feature. The app made it very easy to quickly move through a lot of questions and retain the content.

Having said that, I’m not sure where they draw their questions from, but the types of questions in this app were very different from the questions on both my ASWB practice test as well as the actual test. I didn’t want to pay $85 to take the practice test because I thought the pocket prep practices tests would be sufficient. But in so glad I did, because the pocket prep practice exams were very different than the real one. On the actual ASWB test, they had a lot of judgment and reasoning oriented questions whereas the pocket prep had mostly recall/memory questions in my experience. Additionally, the reasoning questions the pocket prep included were way to easy. There would usually be one VERY obvious answer and the others were pretty silly. But in the actual ASWB exam, there were usually two, sometimes three, plausible answers.

All that to say, definitely pay for the actual ASWB practice exams. And you can use pocket prep as a quick study resource when you’re on the go, but there are other better guides out there to utilize as your main study resource.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! We would love to take a look at the questions and specific ASWB exam prep you are referring to. Can you please send an email to support@pocketprep.com so we can be sure to address your concerns? Thanks so much in advance!

Lots of material, baffling grammar needs editing

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!