I haven't had enough coffee today. Alright, what's going on guys? My name's Tass and welcome back to the second video on my channel. As promised, today's going to be about the Casper Test, what it is, and how I studied for it. But before we get started, I do want to apologize so much for the delay between the first video and the second video. In all honesty, I've filmed this video a couple of times now, but because the Casper Test is so complicated in my opinion, I really didn't like the way that I was presenting the information in the beginning. So third time's a charm, maybe this one will be the one that finally goes on YouTube, but we'll see. So I wanted to talk a little bit about what the Casper Test even is and the way that I would compare the Casper Test is to the MMI interview format. It's similar to the MMI in the way that it's set up. but also the reason why it was created even in the first place. So, MMI and CASPer alike were created because med schools realized that they needed more than just an MCAT score and a good GPA to really gauge if their candidate is ready for medical school and ready to become a doctor. And so, like MMI, CASPer is meant to gauge your personality, what you would do in certain scenarios, different types of conflicts. and just overall whether you would be prepared to face that tough lifestyle that a physician typically faces. What's interesting about CASPer is that schools typically ask you to do CASPer before jumping in and inviting you for an interview. So you're basically doing CASPer first for them to kind of get an idea of your personality and then from there if they like your score enough they'll invite you back for an interview. So you get secondary and Casper kind of around the same time and then typically that's when hopefully an interview will follow. So, also like MMI, Casper has its stations as well. And in each of these stations, you're presented with scenarios. Unlike MMI, Casper is online. So you're getting these virtual stations, you're going into each page with a different scenario whereas MMI you'd be walking into a different room with a different scenario each time there'd be a person there, right? But very similarly, you get scenarios nonetheless. With Casper, you have 90 minutes to finish 12 stations. In these 12 stations, you're going to be viewing either a video scenario with actors acting out a particular scenario, or you're going to be reading a particular scenario. After that, you have 5 minutes, and I cannot emphasize this enough, you have 5 minutes to answer 3 questions for each scenario. These questions can obviously be about the scenarios given, but there's a catch. Sometimes they're also about your own experiences. So if you get a video scenario with actors acting out like a particular conflict or something like that, one of the three questions that they ask you afterwards can also be, have you ever been in a conflict? How did you resolve it? But the worst part of this whole thing and the worst challenge about it is that you only have five minutes, which means that although you want to be accurate, and as reflective as possible. You don't have the amount of time needed to actually just go into the test without studying for it, without preparing for it, and succeeding as well as you could be if you did study and prepare for it. So that's kind of the reason I wanted to make this Casper test video in the first place because I know that it's pretty challenging to get through, especially when you only have five minutes time to actually answer three questions as thoroughly as possible. And so I wanted to go into detail about what I did to study and like the particular resources that I used for the Casper test because I felt like overall it really did help me. In addition to that, I'm kind of going off of my last video and kind of doing a... mini what I wish I could have done better segment in this video as well. So you'll see that at the very end. So during my study process, the first thing that I did obviously was I went onto the Casper test website. So there's an actual Casper test website that you can Google and it'll probably like be one of the first links that pop up. But either way, I'll link it down below. Well, the reason that I went onto the Casper site first is because I felt like that was obviously like the hub of all the resources that I could possibly get. I wanted to know. who graded the test, how the test was graded, how much time do I have to answer each scenario, and what even format the scenario comes in, right? So what I found on the Casper website was kind of amazing. I kind of got an idea of what the test was, how long it was, who graded the test, and how the test was even scored in the first place. The reason for that is that Casper actually has this article section, and there's just a bunch of articles on... just all these things that you really want to get. familiar with in order to really understand what the test is meant for. And they also list the principles that they're looking for that Each candidate should demonstrate in order to achieve a higher CASPer score. So that was really helpful, but more importantly, the CASPer website was actually helpful in providing some small scenarios that could really help you kind of get an idea of what the actual CASPer test would be like. So on one of the pages, which I'll also directly link, they provide you with three to four CASPer scenarios with around three videos. that you actually can get an idea of what the Casper test is like with. But in addition to that, what they also provide is a systems requirement check video. And what I used that for was to get my final practice in. So it's actually a full-length Casper test. And it's just meant to kind of test to see if the technology that you're using to take the test works. But obviously, a lot of students do use it as a full-length final practice before Casper. So I didn't want to use all these Casper resources right away. What I wanted to do... When I went onto the Casper website was actually just get enough information for me to get started on looking for other ways to prepare for the test. So I saved all the resources that I found on Casper in terms of like the test prep material for later. So because I didn't want to use the Casper test prep stuff right away, I had to Google more test prep materials that were not a part of the Casper company website and resources. The first thing that I found was BMO, which was actually pretty amazing. BMO is another test prep company. But basically with BMO's website, I actually found around 8 free scenarios and what I really liked about using these scenarios was that BMO provided an ideal answer so you kind of had an idea of how to start answering these Casper questions on your own. What I also used from BMO was on Amazon so it was an It was basically a BMO ebook and it came with like 24 practice scenarios. So 12 they kind of gave the answers to and it was kind of like a guideline on how you should answer. In addition to that, the last 12 were Casper scenarios, but they didn't have the answer guidelines anymore. So they kind of gave you these. 12 extra practice questions without guidelines so that way you can really get a feel for how well you're doing and how much you've actually gathered from the knowledge that they've given you so far. The reason that I really like this was because truth be told BMO's test prep services also offers the prep courses but those go for like hundreds of dollars and I felt like for me personally financially speaking the book was doable. And it was fine on its own. The next thing that I did, and it was just kind of to really make sure that I had a strong foundation in answering MMI-like scenarios, was using MMI books. So I actually read one by somebody with the last name Desai. I'll link it down below as well. That was just really an extra method that I took in order to really understand what... the MMI process is like and it provided me with extra scenarios on top of what BMO already gave me. It kind of solidified everything that I had already learned from BMO but in addition to that it gave me some things that you know I didn't get to see in the BMO practice scenarios just yet. I'll make sure to link that one down below too. Lastly I just returned to the Casper test like I said earlier I wanted to keep all those things that I pushed aside for the very end so I think a couple of days before my Casper test was when I started using those three or four scenarios that I just found on the Casper website. But then after that, I think the day of Casper, I used the system requirements check full length to make sure that my computer was working. And then in addition to that, just making sure that I really had a good grasp of the Casper. Test. And now it's time for what I would have done differently because obviously there's a lot of things in this cycle that I just did not have a clue in and I wish I could have done differently. So hopefully you guys won't make the same mistakes as I did. But yeah, it's time for that segment right now. I guess like the first thing that I would start with is my typing speed. So I think I type around like 80 words per minute, which is already good. But when you're crunched for time and you only have five minutes to answer three questions in depth, I really felt like I needed to really train as a scribe in order to answer the questions completely. So I think I wish I could have practiced more with typing out my answers. Instead, when I was looking at each scenario question that BMO or the MMI books actually handed me, I was kind of just thinking through my answer, not really writing them down or even typing them. And I wish I could have done that more so make sure to always like take typing into consideration, too Because that's definitely a factor another thing is I wish I could have looked up more Casper scenarios as surprising as that sounds while BMO like gave me everything that I needed I felt like I didn't get the whole picture when I found BMO. I was just like this is it. Like this is definitely what I'm going to be using and that's it. But basically, this is all that I have and did do from the Casper test. 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