1. SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING FOR THE NCE EXAM
Grad School Coaching
Jeanne Stanley, Ph.D.

2. NBCC Exam Types by State (click here for info per State)
Alabama NCE
Alaska NCE
Arizona NCE
Arkansas NCE/ NCMHCE
Colorado NCE
Connecticut NCE/ NCMHCE
Delaware NCE
D.C. NCE
Florida NCMHCE
Georgia NCE
Guam see website
Idaho NCE
Indiana NCMHCE
Illinois NCE/ NCMHCE
Iowa NCE/ NCMHCE
Kansas NCE/ NCMHCE
Kentucky NCE
Louisiana NCE
Maine NCE
Maryland NCE or EMAC
Massachusetts NCMHCE
Michigan NCE
Minnesota NCE
Mississippi NCE
Missouri NCE
Montana NCE/ NCMHCE
Nebraska NCE/ NCMHCE
New Hampshire NCMHCE
New Jersey NCE
New Mexico NCE/ NCMHCE
New York NCMHCE
North Carolina NCE
North Dakota NCE/ NCMHCE
Oklahoma NCE
Oregon NCE
Pennsylvania NCE
Puerto Rico see website
Rhode Island NCMHCE
South Carolina NCE/NCMHCE
South Dakota NCE/ NCMHCE
Tennessee NCE
Utah NCE/ NCMHCE
Vermont NCE and NCMHCE
Virginia NCMHCE
Washington NCE/ NCMHCE
West Virginia NCE
Wisconsin NCE
Wyoming NCE

3. Other States Licensure Professional Counseling Information
For questions about the LPC in your State, visit the following Website that Lists each State's Websites

4. The NCE Exam – Keep in Mind
Click below to read the “Candidate Handbook for State Credentialing”
(Highly Recommended)
NBCC Overview Handbook for the NCE Exam
Note: It link above does not work, please copy and past the following link into your web browser:

5. 8 Core Areas (Content – What Doing)
Human Growth and Development
Social and Cultural Foundations
Helping Relationships
Group Work
Career and Lifestyle Development
Appraisal
Research & Program Evaluation
Professional Orientation & Ethics

6. 5 Work Behavior Areas (Context – How Doing)
Fundamentals of Counseling
Assessment & Career Counseling
Group Counseling
Programmatic & Clinical Intervention
Professional Practice Issues

7. Studying for the NCE Assessing Your Knowledge Base
Link to an unofficial NCE
Practice Exam
NOTE: You may print a PDF copy or save the practice exam above in Google docs

8. NCE Study Prep Matrix Planner
WORK BEHAVIORS (How Doing)
CORE AREAS
(What Doing)
Fundamentals of Counseling
Assessment & Career Counseling
Group Counseling
Programmatic & Clinical Intervention
Professional Practice Issues
Human Growth & Development
Social & Cultural Foundations
Helping Relationships
Group Work
Career & Lifestyle Development
Appraisal
Research & Program Evaluation
Professional Orientation & Ethics

9. CLICK ON LINKS BELOW TO GO
Study Material Links
CLICK ON LINKS BELOW TO GO
DIRECTLY TO SITES
Study Books, CD’s, MP3’s
NOTE: On the left of the webpage, click “Clients
Preparing for NCE Exam”
App = Quiz Questions
App = Flashcards
Condensed Outlines = Counseling Exam Testing TidBits

11. NCE Test Taking Strategies
1. Read the question in its ENTIRETY 2. Avoid “filling in the blanks” in your mind 3. Try to formulate an answer BEFORE looking at the choices - cover the choices - find an answer that is closest to your answer 4. There is not a set pattern to answers choices on exams 5. Careful not to fall for the distractors answers 6. Use of + - ?
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12. SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING FOR THE NCE EXAM
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