Just Passed the NSCA CPT Exam!
by P-Dog
(North Cackalacky)
Here are some tips.....
Get the 3 practice exam set! and take it early on....when you print out the questions and answers it will give you a very accurate picture of which chapters you should study most in my opinion....The techniques chapter (13 I think) is important....
And then when its closer you can re-take them because you get another try for each practice exam.
I have been training for a year and a half and have been training myself for 15 years and I still thought the practice tests were hard and failed all three the week before my test which really made me scared and so i was very methodical about studying the four chapters where i missed a lot: 16, 18, 13, and 25. Could be different for you.
But Then i took the exam and could have missed 16 more questions and still passed per my report!!
The practice tests are harder, I thought, but I also studied the parts I was less familiar with before the real thing.
Sure, there is a TON of info in the book, but some chapters are not represented AT ALL it seemed. So don't give the same weight to every chapter while studying!! I could have saved a lot of time had I taken the practice exams earlier to find out...
I still don't feel like I have comprehension of everything, and I'll go back and probably continue to learn more from that giant-#ss book.
So happy, I get to put those letters after my name now...
I've done really well without them, with 20 clients+ in a private studio, but I think this will really set me up as legit and not a trainer-dummy.
Most people don't care about my certification, but its really about feeling legit versus feeling like a fraud to me. I think this will give me the confidence to approach more corporate and collegiate clients.
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