The SAE will identify those areas where a candidate's knowledge base is lacking and help the candidate to better prepare for the exam.
Candidates receive total scores and a summary of strengths and weaknesses by content area.
The SAE also contains explanations for each correct and incorrect answer, thereby helping the candidate to better understand the reasoning which supports the correct therapy. Provide a way for candidates to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses through a self-scoring system. Bonafide test items were taken from the CCGP item bank to cover all test domains. Working on their own, each task force member developed explanations for the answers to 30 of the items. The task force, as a whole, reviewed and approved the explanations for all 150 items.