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The National Counselor Examination for Licensure and Certification (NCE®<\/sup>) is administered and maintained by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), an internationally-recognized provider of national counselor certification. It is part of counselor credentialing requirements for candidates seeking certification to practice as a counselor.<\/p>\n

Click \u201cStart Test\u201d above to take a free NCE practice test, and check out our premium-quality NCE test prep resources by clicking the links below!<\/p>\n

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<\/span>What to Expect on the NCE<\/h2>\n

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The National Counselor exam is a 200-question, multiple-choice, non-sectioned, pencil and paper formatted test. On the test, you will be presented with a series of questions created from the original eight Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP) content areas and five work behaviors from NBCC\u2019s national job analysis.<\/p>\n

All of these questions have undergone review and field-testing prior to being included on the examination and a new version of the National Counselor exam is administered for each new test date.<\/p>\n

Of the 200 questions you will be asked, 160 are counted for scoring in order to determine whether you achieve a passing grade, with the remaining 40 being unscored field-test items used for statistics to gauge whether they should be used on future versions of the NCE exam.<\/p>\n

Questions will be based on the following six domains:<\/p>\n

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  1. Professional Practice and Ethics (12%)<\/li>\n
  2. Intake, Assessment, and Diagnosis (12%)<\/li>\n
  3. Areas of Clinical Focus (29%)<\/li>\n
  4. Treatment Planning (9%)<\/li>\n
  5. Counseling Skills and Interventions (30%)<\/li>\n
  6. Core Counseling Attributes (8%)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A more in-depth discussion of these content domains is available through Mometrix\u2019s National Counselor exam preparation tools, which includes NCE study guides and NCE practice tests.<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>Top 5 Most Challenging NCE Questions<\/h2>\n

    Now that you know more about the exam, try your hand at some targeted practice!<\/p>\n

    Over the last year, we’ve compiled the data from about 7,000 test-takers who tried their hand at the practice test at the top of this page. According to the data, around 65% of people answered these five questions incorrectly.<\/p>\n

    Answer each question and read through the answer explanation, whether you got the answer right or wrong. This will help you ensure you’ve got the topic mastered.<\/p>\n

    Whether you struggled with these questions or aced them on your first try, be sure to take the full practice test<\/a> to get a better idea of how prepared you really are!<\/p>\n

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    Hardest Question<\/div>\r\n
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    1. Would Freud\u2019s psychodynamic approach and Albert Ellis\u2019 REBT favor the emic or the etic approach?<\/p>\r\n\r\n