CECE/CPCE Exam

CPCE/CECE Exam Prep

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You’ve put in the work—now let’s make sure you’re ready for your exit exam. Whether you’re preparing for the CPCE or CECE, AATBS offers expert support and trusted resources to help you take this next step with confidence.

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CPCE Materials Package

Our Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Exam Package includes the materials you need to learn the content on the exam.

CPCE Practice Tests

TestMASTER, our testing program, gives you access to four full-length exams containing questions that are similar to those included on the CPCE.

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All of our questions are regularly reviewed by Psychometricians for quality, difficulty, and discrimination using both Item Response Theory (IRT) and Classical Test Theory (CTT) paradigms. These analyses allow us to increase the quality of our questions to ensure that you get the best practice available.

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The Counselor Education Comprehensive Exam (CECE) is an assessment tool used by graduate counseling programs to evaluate a student’s knowledge across the core areas of counselor education. Developed as an alternative to the CPCE (Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Exam), the CECE is increasingly adopted by institutions to assess the readiness of students completing their master’s programs.

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Both the Counselor Education Comprehensive Exam (CECE) and the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Exam (CPCE) are used by counseling programs as exit exams to assess students’ mastery of essential counseling knowledge. However, there are key differences between the two.

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The Counselor Education Comprehensive Exam (CECE) consists of 120 multiple-choice questions. These questions are evenly divided among the eight CACREP core areas, with 15 questions per area.

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The Counselor Education Comprehensive Exam (CECE) and the National Counselor Examination (NCE) are often discussed together, but they serve different purposes in the journey to becoming a licensed counselor.

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Explore the key differences between the Counselor Education Comprehensive Examination (CECE), the National Counselor Examination (NCE), the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination (CPCE), and the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE).

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