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Everything you need to prepare for the NCE. All of it free.

A full course, a question bank of 1,000+ items with explanations, 1,100+ flashcards on a spaced schedule, a timed full-length simulation, ten printable study guides, and a progress page that tells you what to study next. Reading is open to everyone. Sign in with Google to use the practice tools and save progress across devices.

Start here The NCE course Six domains matching the current NCE content outline, with a CACREP tag on every lesson. Written lessons with key terms and exam tips, a video overview for each lesson, and a quiz after every lesson. Open the course → Practice tests 1,000+ items, every one explained Build a set by content area in study mode, or take a timed exam-mode set. Scores by area. Full-length simulation 200 items, 3 hours 45 minutes The same length and area weighting as the real NCE. Pauses save; the clock keeps running like the real thing. NCMHCE · start here The NCMHCE course Six lessons on working a case: reading it, intake and risk, diagnosis, treatment planning, interventions, ethics. A worked case, a practice item and key terms in each. Open the course → NCMHCE Clinical case studies Cases in the exam's format: intake, later session, and questions with an explanation after each. Daily case, single cases, or the full timed exam. NCMHCE flashcards DSM-5-TR, treatment and interventions The clinical deck for the case study exam: criteria and durations, first-line treatments, ethics in practice. 12-week plan The printable NCMHCE study plan Twelve weeks in the order a case unfolds, with the lesson, the cases and the NCE knowledge lessons named for each week. Free baseline case · no account needed One case, twelve questions, a score by domain About twenty minutes in the exam's format. You get your weakest domain and the one lesson to open first. Flashcards 1,100+ cards on a spaced schedule Cards you know return in 1, 3, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days. Cards you miss come back later in the same session. Printable sheets for every area. My progress Readiness score and what to study next Accuracy by content area weighted the way the exam weights it, flashcard mastery, streak, and one suggested next step. 16-week study plan Printable, three pages for sixteen weeks Sent by email. What to study each week and the one thing to have done by Sunday. Study toolkit Plan the weeks, drill the terms, check the numbers A dated study planner with calendar export, a glossary of every key term, term-matching drills, flashcards in listen mode, a score converter, a statistics test picker, a focus timer and a test-day checklist. Open the study toolkit →
Printable study guides

Ten guides to the parts of the exam people fail.

Each is an eight-to-twelve-page PDF written for the exam, not the textbook: the distinctions that decide items, worked examples, and thirty fold-and-cut flashcards at the back. Free with a Google sign-in, the same account that saves your progress.