Welcome to Our Competition Review


Our Rating System: Our ratings are based on how fast you get results from your efforts. That translates into how many actions you need to perform before you see if you answered a question correctly. To us, that is directly related to how many times you need to click, scroll, or load a new page, or even pages, before you see if you were right or wrong.

 

The best way to learn anything is with rapid feedback: When you click once and find out right away if you are right or wrong, you get immediate reinforcement or another chance to correct your error. Most other massage quiz sites not designed to take advantage of this innate natural learning process that we all use. On some sites you have to perform several functions and wait for other pages to load before you find out if you even got one question right. That kind of process makes building your nerve pathways which are the links to your knowledge a tedious chore. What you need is to develop strong memory patterns with rapid-fire recall if you are going to have the best chance to pass a state of national test. Imagine this: If you had to answer several, or even over a dozen questions, before you got even the slightest clue if you had the right answer, then you would be disconnected from the thought pattern you had when you answered the first question and not get it reinforced until you read a whole bunch of other unrelated information.

 

The way we approach our method: We rely on The Law of Facilitation that says: “When an impulse has passed through a certain set of neurons to the exclusion of others, it will tend to take the same course on a future occasion, and each time it traverses this same path the resistance will be less.” You all learned this in your anatomy and physiology classes. Here is where we put it to the test (pardon the pun). What that translates to is; repetition, repetition, repetition. You want to repeat answering the same questions over and over so that each time you see that question you are able to answer it without thinking. That's how you prepare to for a test, you rehearse passing it, over and over.

 

What it all means:  The quicker you find out if you are right or wrong, in real time, the faster you will be able to recall the correct answer the next time you see that same question.

 

Yes, we do repeat questions: Our quizzes are at the heart of our system, and the questions from the quizzes are used to make the midterms and the exams. That’s so you can build your recall and confidence and then test yourself on what you’ve learned.

 

In addition: The quality of our questions are so high (some have reported seeing 25-50% of our questions appear on their exams) that we feel confident that we have the best online system available to build your test-taking skills and get over your testophobia, if you have it, so you will walk into the testing center feeling so confident that you will be able to take your state or national test with a minimal amount of stress and anxiety.

 



Evaluations: We evaluate massage quiz websites based on their free samples. All of our assessments are based on the best available information that we can gather from our competators' sites and we do our best to be as fair and objective as possible. Though we consider ourselves to be experts in the field, we are not affiliated with any state or federal department agency, impartial third party, or independent research company. However, we feel that we are entitled to provide an opinion that we, in all honesty admit is subjective, and may even be interpreted as biased because we are providing this information in order to promote ourselves. With that being the case, we reserve the right to offer our opinions and we should not be held liable for slander because we are fully disclosing our criteria for make judgements that we call "Overall Ease of Use Rating" and "Overall Quality of Content."

 

Rating Scale:

Excellent = One click

Very Good = Two clicks

Good = A few clicks with maybe some scrolling

Fair = A few clicks, plus having to scroll the whole page

Poor = Several clicks, plus having to load another page

Very Poor = Several clicks, with scrolling, plus having to load another page

Extremely Poor = Having to load two or more pages

 


ONLINE MEMBERSHIP/SUBSCRIPTION SITES:

 

Massage Exam.com

www.massage-exam.com

Number of Questions: over 2000

Choose NCETM or NCETMB: YES

Instant Test Grading: YES

Free Sample Quizzes: YES: (6 with 15 questions each)

http://www.massage-exam.com/practice-tests.php

COST: 1 Month Massage Exam Subscription ($39.95)

            3 Month Massage Exam Subscription ($69.95)

Overall Ease of Use Rating: Very Poor

Overall Quality of Content: to be determined

 

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Massage Prep.com

http://www.massageprep.com/included.php

Practice tests: Claims to have over 2200 questions

Final Exam Simulation: YES (1 with 20 questions; does not give correct answers)

Free Quizzes: YES (1 with 20 questions with one click answer)

                                (1 with 20 questions; does not give correct answers)

Ease of Use = Fair

Tracts Results: YES

Allows you to correct your answers: NO

 

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Massage Therapy Exam

http://massagetherapyexam.com/

Number of Questions on Site: 100's

Choose NCETM or NCETMB: NO

Instant Test Grading: NO

Free Sample Quizzes: YES: (1 with 30 questions)

Option to receive via email 7 more free quizzes

http://www.massage-exam.com/practice-tests.php

COST:  1 Day for $24.95

             7 Days for $54.95

            30 Days for $109.95

            60 Days for $169.95

            90 Days for $229.95

Overall Ease of Use Rating: Poor

Overall Quality of Content: to be determined

 

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ONLINE WEBSITES with FREE QUIZZES:



Massage Therapy StudyStacks

http://www.studystack.com/category-26

Total Number of Questions: estimated 10,000+

Can Choose either NCETM or NCETMB: YES

Has Instant Test Grading: n/a

Several Types of Learning Tools: Flashcards, Matching, Crossword, & others

Overall Ease of Use Rating: Excellent

Overall Quality of Content: to be determined…

 

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Belief Net.com

http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=900&surveyID=419

Number of Questions: 12

Choose NCETM or NCETMB: NO

Instant Test Grading: NO

Free Sample Quizzes: YES: (1 with 12 questions)

COST: Free

Overall Ease of Use Rating: Very Poor

Overall Quality of Content: Average

 

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TRADITIONAL STUDY MATERIALS:

 

NCETM/NCETMB Flashcard Secrets

http://www.flashcardsecrets.com/ncbtmb/

Total Number of Questions: 350+ flash cards

Can Choose either NCETM or NCETMB: YES

Has Instant Test Grading: NOT POSSIBLE

Free Sample Flashcards: NO

Money Back Guarantee: YES

COST: $46.90 (includes shipping and handling)

Overall Ease of Use Rating: Depends on individual study habits

Overall Quality of Content: to be determined…

 

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