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Pre-Practicum and Comprehensive Exams inSchool Counseling
Pre-Practicum and Comprehensive Exams in School Counseling
All students will take programmatic examinations. There are
two formal programmatic examinations in the School
Counseling program: the Pre-Practicum Examination and the
Comprehensive Examination. Both examinations are to be
taken electronically, at KSU, in a supervised setting, and are in a
multiple-choice format. The intent of these examinations is to:
Provide a more comprehensive evaluation of student’s knowledge than can be completed in
an individual course
Ensure retention of student knowledge
Systematically evaluate student knowledge
Provide insight on curricular and programmatic offerings
Provide students with opportunities to prepare for the licensure examination
The first examination that master’s students take is the “Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Pre-Practicum Examination” or the “School Counseling Pre-Practicum Examination.” Pre-practicum
examinations are to be taken after all prerequisite coursework is completed (in full). Pre-practicum
examinations cover only the courses that are prerequisite to each program’s practicum course.
Pre-practicum examinations are to be successfully completed in order to enter the Practicum course
and experience (for CMHC students this is CMHC: Practicum I).
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Students: Prerequisite coursework for CES 6/77492:
Practicum I: Clinical Mental Health Counseling includes the following courses: (1)
Counseling Theories, (2) Counseling Skills and Techniques (3) Orientation to CMHC, (4)
, Group Work: Theory & Techniques, (5) Career Counseling and (6) Intro to Assessment in
Counseling.
School Counseling Students: Prerequisite coursework for CES 6/78392: School Counseling
Practicum includes the following courses: (1) Counseling Theories, (2) Counseling Skills and
Techniques, (3) School Counseling: Orientation and Ethics, (4) Group Work: Theory &
Techniques, (5) Counseling Children and (6) Counseling Adolescents.
The second examination that master’s students take is the “Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Comprehensive Examination” or the “School Counseling Comprehensive Examination” depending on
which program you are enrolled. Comprehensive examinations are to be taken at the end of the first
semester of internship and will cover all required (non-elective) coursework in the program, including
course content covered in your respective Pre-Practicum Examination (please see program specific
prospectus). Comprehensive examinations must be successfully completed in order to graduate.
CMHC Students: All required courses in the CMHC program (excluding electives) will be
represented on the “Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination.”
SCON Students: All courses in the SCON program are required and will be represented on
the “School Counseling Comprehensive Examination.”
Study Tips
The following tips were developed by the CES faculty to help students prepare for the pre-practicum
and comprehensive examinations:
Don’t cram! Thorough studying is much more effective for such an exam then starting to
study a week or two before the exam.
Review all syllabi for the courses that the exam covers (see below). Specifically review the
CACREP standards in each course. The exams were developed off of the CACREP standards.
Review all reading materials (e.g., books, handouts, lecture notes, etc.) for the courses that
the exam covers (see below).
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