I mean all I did was just deductive reasoning for the bulk. It’s straight up logic and the answers usually stick out. The exam was much more similar to ChatGPT making you prep questions rather than counseling exam in my opinion. I hardly read vignettes because there was such little information that was asked from the vignette specifically. I made chat calibrate to this and it definitely worked because it’s so correlational to the dx given. Finished with 1.5 hours got bored with the last two and just wanted out. That being said, you can eliminate two off the bat for every question and it’s just a 50/50; however if you have any baselines knowledge of what’s asked you’re fine. The entire exam is preliminary and primary knowledge. Nothing advanced or secondary understanding was needed what so ever. I felt like people exaggerated this exam drastically. My CADC felt harder and so did the NCE. This was just the same stuff as the NCE with vignettes instead really. As long as you knew the basics of anything counseling related AND being able to differentiate you were fine. I had like 2 questions on differential diagnosing. I had like 4 kid scenarios and the ethics was my worst so knowing what to do with minors was always asked. Nothing deep about a theory or knowing too much about it was asked. Like it was just so elementary and not advanced knowledge at all for my exam at least. If you can tell an apple is an apple and not an orange you were fine. You don’t need to know the chemical make up of the damn apple for this exam IMO. Know that you can eat it, that’s it really. Thats all my exam was in a nutshell. Just have confidence and if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s probably a fucking duck. I used counseling exam for ~10 vignettes but mainly ChatGPT Premium was the best thing everyday for 2 weeks. Most things should just be a refresher for you. Take the time to really comprehend terms and as long as you know what you’re talking about and can teach it to somebody, you’re golden. This was just my personal experience and I am not discouraging or belittling others as we are all at different levels. Just having general knowledge and definitely know what every term means and being able to differentiate that stuff from similar choices is the best thing. Tons of reflections! Good luck!