It is that time of year when you are so busy shopping and going to holiday parties that you forget to study for your upcoming massage test. If you’re one of those people who is looking for some advice on which massage test questions to review before their impending exam, read on! We have some suggestions for the right massage test questions to review if you only have a short time to study.
One of the best places to start is the content outline for the MBLEx, NCBTMB or NCETM exam depending on which test you’re taking because that will tell you how many questions are in each area on the exam. Over half of the NCETM massage test questions that do not involve professional standards and business practices deal with massage assessment and massage application. The rest are divided among knowledge of bodily systems, anatomy, function, movement and pathology. The breakdown is as follows:
- General Knowledge of the Body Systems -16%
- Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology – 19%
- Pathology – 13%
- Therapeutic Massage Assessment - 16%
- Therapeutic Massage Application - 24%
- Professional Standards, Ethics, Business, and Legal Practices - 12%
This gives you an idea of the weight of importance in these areas, all of which are covered in Massage Prep. The test was created by experts who all decided this was the order of importance for the areas that make up the job description of a massage therapist. Because of this, concentrate your studies around the major services and procedures that a massage therapist provides.
Assuming you have reviewed everything in depth at some point and only have a small window of time to finish studying before your exam, make sure you spend that precious time reviewing massage assessment and treatment, then move on to Anatomy and Pathology and save the professional standards for last. The professional standards do not require the memorization of difficult terms like the other areas and you can probably rely on your common sense to answer questions correctly in many cases.
The best thing to do if you are enrolled in Massage Prep is to take a few simulated final exams. Once you’re done with those, you can review which of the massage test questions you answered incorrectly. If you find that many that you missed dealt with anatomy and body systems, review the muscle and skeletal tutorials, then move on to the study guides for those areas where you struggled on the simulated final exam.
If you plan to study according to the massage test content outline, you’ll be less panicked on exam day because you’ll be targeting the big areas first. If you have only 20 hours to study before your exam factoring in school, work and holiday fun, spend half of it anatomy, body systems and pathology, 40% on application and assessment massage test questions, and the rest on professional standards. Don’t panic if you don’t know the answer to a question on the real test. If you know all the major areas well, you’ll still pass your massage test!
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