Your unfair advantage in behavioral health licensure
Behavioral health licensure pulls from your whole training: theories and their theorists, assessment instruments, diagnostic criteria, research design, and an ethics code where the exact wording matters.
The advantage isn't a shortcut. It's a study method: pulling answers from memory and reviewing them just before they fade, instead of rereading, highlighting and cramming.
3 programs · 3,248 cards · organised by public exam outlines
What your memory has to carry for behavioral health licensure
Different exams, the same problem: a lot to hold, for a long time, recalled on demand.
Names and theories
Who proposed what, and how competing theories differ.
Ethics, precisely
What the code requires, permits and forbids, and in what order you act.
Terms with technical meanings
Especially for the BCBA, where everyday words have strict definitions.
Why the old way fails for behavioral health licensure
Rereading, highlighting and cramming are the most common ways to study, and they feel productive. The research says they're the weakest.
Rereading
Rereading a textbook you already studied in graduate school is the least effective way to get it back.
Retrieve it
Tested students recalled 61% of a passage a week later; students who reread it four times recalled 40%.
Roediger & Karpicke (2006), Psychological Science
Highlighting
Highlighting an ethics code does not rehearse applying it to a dilemma.
Test yourself
A review of ten techniques rated highlighting and rereading low utility, and practice testing high.
Dunlosky et al. (2013), Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Cramming
Cramming a content area pushes out the ones you studied the month before.
Space it
Word pairs reviewed across four days were recalled 54% of the time; the stack crammed the day before the test, 34%.
Kornell (2009), Applied Cognitive Psychology
The numbers behind the method
Published finding about the method, not NoReread results. Each one is shown with the conditions it was measured under.
recalled a week later: tested vs reread
Retrieving beat rereading a week later, even though rereaders felt more confident.
Undergraduates studied a prose passage. Those who read it once and recalled it three times remembered 61% of it one week later; those who read it four times remembered 40%. At five minutes the rereaders were ahead (83% vs 71%). Experiment 2, 180 students, no feedback.
Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255.
Published finding about the method, not NoReread results.
recalled on day 5: one stack reviewed daily vs stacks crammed
Daily rotation beat cramming single topics.
25 students learned GRE-type word pairs over four daily sessions with the same number of study trials. One large stack reviewed every day: 54% recalled on day 5. Small stacks each crammed on a single day: 21%. The stack crammed the day before the test: 34%. Experiment 2.
Kornell, N. (2009). Optimising learning using flashcards: Spacing is more effective than cramming. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(9), 1297–1317.
Published finding about the method, not NoReread results.
utility: practice testing and spacing vs rereading and highlighting
Practice testing and spacing rated high utility; rereading and highlighting low. You may recognise the review.
A review of ten learning techniques rated practice testing and distributed practice high utility; rereading, highlighting and summarization were rated low utility.
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4–58.
Published finding about the method, not NoReread results.
See the research
Three short loops. Two chart published results exactly as reported; the forgetting curve is an illustrative model and is labelled as one.
Testing yourself beats rereading, a week later
Bar charts from Roediger & Karpicke (2006), Experiment 2. Five minutes after studying, students who read a passage four times recalled 83%, read three times and tested once 78%, read once and tested three times 71%. One week later the order reversed: 40%, 56% and 61%.
Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255.
Published finding about the method, not NoReread results.
The forgetting curve, with and without reviews
An illustrative model, not measured data: after one exposure, memory decays quickly toward zero over 30 days. With reviews on days 1, 3, 7 and 14, each review restores it and it decays more slowly each time, staying high at day 30.
Ebbinghaus, H. (1885). Über das Gedächtnis. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig.
Illustrative model, not measured data.
Spacing beats cramming
From Kornell (2009), Experiment 2: over four days, one stack of 20 word pairs reviewed every day versus four stacks of five each crammed on one day. On day 5, spaced pairs were recalled 54% of the time, massed 21%, and the stack crammed the day before 34%. Across three experiments spacing beat massing for 90% of participants, yet after the first session 72% believed massing worked better.
Kornell, N. (2009). Optimising learning using flashcards: Spacing is more effective than cramming. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(9), 1297–1317.
Published finding about the method, not NoReread results.
Behavioral health programs
Ready-made decks, organised by each exam's public outline. Open any program to try its free sample cards.
EPPP — Professional Practice in Psychology
8 decks · 914 cards
ASWB Clinical — Clinical Social Work Licensing Exam
3 decks · 1,411 cards
BCBA — Board Certified Behavior Analyst
9 decks · 923 cards
| Exam | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| EPPP225 items (175 scored, 50 unscored pretest) · 4 hours 15 minutes | 225 items (175 scored, 50 unscored pretest) | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| ASWB Clinical122 items (110 scored, 12 unscored pretest), in two sections of 61 · 4 hours | 122 items (110 scored, 12 unscored pretest), in two sections of 61 | 4 hours |
| BCBA185 items (175 scored, 10 unscored pilot) · 4 hours | 185 items (175 scored, 10 unscored pilot) | 4 hours |
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1. Cards from public exam outlines
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2. Recall first, then flip
Every card asks before it tells. That moment of pulling the answer from memory is the retrieval practice the research measures.
3. Reviews scheduled before you forget
An SM-2 schedule brings each card back just as it starts to fade: sooner if you missed it, later if you knew it.
Cards follow each exam's public content outline. You recall a theorist, a code standard or a definition before you flip, and missed cards come back sooner.
What is test-retest reliability and what does it measure?
Test-retest reliability is assessed by administering the same test to the same people on two occasions and correlating the scores. It measures temporal stability of the construct over time.
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Straight answers
Is NoReread enough to prepare for behavioral health licensure?
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Flashcards are a memory tool. Learn the material first, then use NoReread to retain it and refresh what you already know. It doesn't replace studying the subject.
What does “unfair advantage” mean here?
The advantage is the study method: retrieval practice and spaced review, instead of rereading, highlighting and cramming. It is not a promise of a pass or a score. The numbers on this page are published findings about the method from the studies cited, not NoReread results.
Do the ethics cards replace reading the code?
No. Read the current code itself. Cards help you remember its standards, and they may contain errors, so check anything you rely on.
Does this count as continuing education?
No. NoReread is a memory tool, not a CE provider.
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