Hi everybody, welcome back to another video. My name is Jim Luca, aka Dr. Calcagno, and this is going to be video 3 and my personal favorite in our getting ready to write the CASPer test video series. Today we're going to be going over the highest yield tips for anyone getting ready to take the CASPer exam. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing my favorite tips for both the written as well as the verbal parts of the CASPer test, and I'll let you know which particular tip. correlates with what particular part of the test as well. Starting off with tip number one, this is called banking time. It is going to be incredibly useful for the written parts of the Casper test. Now at a high level, the concept of banking time works like this. You need to keep in mind that when it comes to the written or the tight parts of the Casper test, Each of the different question stems will have three different questions that follow. You will get five minutes to answer all of the three questions together. And what that means by definition is that if you get stuck on that very first question, you don't get more time to answer the other two questions. And if you really can't think of something to say and you spend all of your five minutes on that first question, then many students could run into a less than optimal score for that particular question stem. So when it comes to banking time, what I want you to consider doing is that for that very first question, you're going to give yourself two minutes. two minutes to answer that question. For the second question, you're going to allocate an additional two minutes. And for that final question, three of three per the question stem, you're going to give yourself one minute to answer that final question. What you're going to do is that when it comes to that very first question, if you are stuck on it, you are going to give yourself a total answer time of two minutes. After that part, you're going to cut yourself off and move on directly to the next question. Again, giving yourself only two minutes to answer that second question. And after that, you want to cut yourself off again and move on to the third question. What this will allow you to do is utilize your strengths to answer the questions you can while leaving behind the questions you can't. On the other side, though, the concept of banking time means that if it only takes me 60 seconds to answer that first question. and I'm confident in my answer, then out of the original two minutes that I've allocated myself to have for that question, I now get to bank 60 seconds of additional time. That then moves through to the next question. So I only spent 60 seconds on the first question. Now I have three minutes on the second question. If I only took a minute and a half, then I would bank that additional minute and a half of time and move that down to the final question. And in this way, the concept of banking time really just helps with time management on the Casper test. Now, the second tip, and this one is going to be very valuable, again, for the written part of the CASPer exam, and this is going to be the importance of pre-remembered experiences. And what I mean by this is that because you're only given five minutes to answer three different questions, when it comes to your exam day, a lot of times, if they ask you something to do with personal reflection, you are not going to have a lot of time to think of a very strong personal experience and then answer all the different questions about this. So it does serve your best interest. If beforehand you come up with a few different experiences that you think you will be able to use on the Casper test. Now, I actually wrote out my favorite list here. These six questions I think that students should have answered for themselves before they go into the actual Casper test in terms of experiences. The reason why I chose these is because I think there is good. crossover with these experiences here so that even if you don't get asked about one of these six exactly you have a story that could be used for many different types of questions sams the first one is to come up with a time that you failed the second is to define your biggest personal success The third is to come up with a time that you've given feedback to someone else, and they might ask you about how you would change that or how the individual took it or in what context you gave feedback. The fourth one would be to go over a time that you've received criticism. So not just being able to give feedback, but being able to receive criticism and how you implement that and how it affects you as a person moving forward. The fifth one would be to come up with a time in which you've shown resiliency. And then finally, the sixth one, to come up with a time that you have. helped to implement change. I think these are incredibly high yield and definitely something that could catch you off guard on test day, but if you come up with them before, will definitely help you out. Just want to draw your attention to a really quick note that I like to tell students that when you pick your experiences for these self-reflection questions, especially for the ones that ask you to comment on your biggest personal failures, for example. You want to tactfully choose these experiences such that you are showing insight, you are showing reflection into your past and how it would implement change in the future, but you don't want to cast yourself in a bad light as an applicant. It is my advice to never pick a particular personal example that demonstrates a time where you messed up. and someone got hurt or there was a very large consequence as a result of something that could be entirely blamed on yourself. Tip number three and the first one really to focus on the video side of Casper is to pay attention to your mannerisms especially when you are watching recording. ...feedback from yourself. And what I mean by this is that, different from the written or typed part of the Casper test, when it comes to the video recorded part, you really want to pay attention not just to what you're saying, but how you say it. For example, I think that everyone going through practice scenarios with themselves on video should watch for filler words that they're inserting a lot. Things like um or hmm. They're not going to be assessed specifically by Casper, but if you could reduce the amount... of individual feeling words that you're putting in there, you actually help to portray a stronger sense of communication. And that's something that is actually assessed specifically by Casper. Another thing that I would advise against is to really pay attention to what you're doing with your hands and how you're swaying in the seat, and even the way that you are looking directly at the camera. Again, these are not going to be things that are going to be outright tested by Casper. but they all do help to sharpen your ability to communicate with other people, especially your ability to hold eye contact and portray a voice. If you're looking down the whole time like this when you're talking, it does come across as a little bit different, maybe even slightly unprofessional than if you were to look directly at the camera, sit up straight, and just change the inflections and pauses in your voice. Tip number four, and another one that's going to be useful for the video component of the Casper test, is to recreate test conditions early on in your studying that you will see later on when you're actually taking the Casper test. There's a concept known as state-dependent learning, whereby people are able to remember more on test day if their physical and mental state on the actual test day were similar to when they practiced for the test. What I would advise students do is to pick a good spot in their house, a quiet spot, where they're not going to have any distractions, and they're going to make sure that they have good Wi-Fi as well on test day, and do their practicing there. If you do the majority of your practicing at a school library or at a friend's house, and then on test day, you're in a totally different environment, there are so many other variables that you're going to have to keep in mind. And any additional thing that's going to distract you from the test could actually serve to decrease your score in the long run. So I would recommend simulating the test conditions as early as possible and to the best of your ability when you are practicing. Tip number five is to work on your typing speed. While Casper itself is not a typing test per se, it is going to be at your great advantage if you are able to type. more words per minute, and then help you to just convey a little bit more of what you are thinking onto the actual written response that you're going to be submitting for evaluation. Now, one of the best ways to do this is just use the Casper booster typing generator to help you increase the amount of words per minute that you're able to type and help to just gain a little bit of fluidity or efficiency while typing. It is never going to be a bad thing. It is always going to help if you are able to go into the Casper test. being able to type more words per minute and being able to actually convey what you are thinking down onto your computer that you're going to submit for evaluation afterwards. So while Casper itself is not just a typing test, it is never going to hurt and it's always going to benefit you, in my opinion, if you are able to type just a little bit faster and a little bit more efficient, I would highly recommend the Casper Booster typing generator. And finally, tip number six, this one could be used for both the written as well as the recorded parts of the CASPer test. This one is to not focus on previous questions. If you did a particular question, for example, that you think that you didn't do too well on, what you need to remember is that your score on any question on the CASPer test is not going to carry over to future questions that you're doing. But what will affect your score on the entire test is if you spend a lot of time increasing your anxiety and distress about previous questions that you didn't do too well on. Once you move on from one question to the next one, you have to be able to leave that question entirely in the past and focus on what's still to come on the rest of the test. Because more often than not, you did way better on that question than you think. And even if you didn't, even if you totally bombed that last question, if you spend all of your time moving forward thinking about that question that you didn't do well on, the rest of your questions and your answers are going to suffer as a result. It's going to bring your entire score down. when you're practicing, be sure to practice independent different questions. And don't really spend too much time thinking about one to the next focus on what's still to come. But all right, everyone, that's all the tips that I have for this video. We'll see you all on the next one. Fourth video in the series, we will be going over an actual worked example of a Casper question. So see you then.