5 CASPer Questions You Need To Know & Expert Sample Answers You Can Use

Here are 5 CASPer questions including the best answers, that you can use to prepare for your CASPer test. Whether you are applying to DO or MD programs, your CASPer prep should involve practice questions and responses.

This video will review 5 official CASPer sample questions indicated on the administrator's website as well as 5 of the best answers for them. Unlike what you may have heard, you can and should prepare for your CASPer test and there's clear evidence showing that coaching works and applicants can improve their practice CASPer score by up to 23%.

We're going to share with you the same strategies we share with our students in our CASPer prep programs and we'll provide some tips throughout the video. CASPer questions can be very tricky, and having a clear and effective strategy is key to succeeding. It can be very useful to review CASPer test sample questions and answers, so you can learn what is being assessed in such evaluations, and how you can prepare effectively for your own CASPer test.

CASPer questions can be tricky and that's why we've made this video to help you prepare well in advanced for some of the questions you'll run into.

Here are the timestamps and what we'll cover:

00:00 - Intro
06:58 - Prompt #1
07:54 - 1st Question and Answer for Prompt #1
09:03 - 2nd & 3rd Questions and Answers for Prompt #1

09:51 - Prompt #2
10:36 - 1st Question and Answer for Prompt #2
12:22 - 2nd Question and Answer for Prompt #2
13:12 - 3rd Question and Answer for Prompt #2

14:07 - Prompt #3
15:22 - 1st Question and Answer for Prompt #3
17:20 - 2nd Question and Answer for Prompt #3
18:01 - 3rd Question and Answer for Prompt #3

19:10 - Prompt #4
19:51 - 1st Question and Answer for Prompt #4
20:33 - 2nd Question and Answer for Prompt #4
21:01 - 3rd Question and Answer for Prompt #4

21:20 - Prompt #5
22:56 - 1st Question and Answer for Prompt #5
28:06 - 2nd Question and Answer for Prompt #5
30:11 - 3rd Question and Answer for Prompt #5

32:56 - Outro

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[thefenerbahcesk]

Situation 1:
Study group: Members have heated convo. Sarah is inconsistently contributing. She says she's busy and defends herself. Mike and John push back.
How would you diffuse the situation?
- Acknowledge the validity of everyone's concerns. Speak privately with Sarah. You don't know that she's just blowing things off. She may have something going on in her life.
Do you agree with Mike and John?
- We don't agree with either side. We need more information. We can not jump to conclusions.
Suggestions:
- Be proactive. Draw on your own life. How can you get someone to interact more.

Situation 2:
Paternity Leave: If he doesn't take paternity leave he can get a promotion. Short term vs long term.
What would you recommend, should he take paternity leave?
- Your not making the decision for this individual, just what would you recommend
- Use information gathering base to take Tom, ask him some questions about his priorities
- How do his priorities align. Could the long term benefits outweigh the gaps.
What strategies would you offer to help him make the decision?
- We don't know what his priorities are. He needs to come up with a pros and cons list, talk with others.
Work life balance?
- Personal opinion. Why do people struggle to find this.
- what thought have you put into this?
- Talk about your own struggles. Difficulties of balance.

Situation 3:
- Frank and Julia are two coworkers. Frank says Jason shows up late to work, dozes off. Julia says company encourages flexible working conditions. Frank is worried behavior could be sign of something more serious going on with Jason. Julia says he should respect Frank's professional boundaries.
What advice to Frank about Jason?
- Question about professional boundaries.
- We want to show concern for our teammembers, but there are barriers to protect all of us.
- Try to balance boundaries with concerns.
- Try to set up a private meeting. Create a safe, nonjudgemental space.
Would additional action overstep boundaries.
- What do professional boundaries mean to you?
- It should be with the intent of helping the teammember and business, not out of curiosity or gossip.
What if Jason is being bullied at work?
- If boundaries that exist give way for some general leeway.
- Think through the ramifications of your actions (either way)
- Make an open space for reflection.

Situation 4:
- High school basketball team captain. Aunt died. Not very close. Funeral same day as your regional championships.
Funeral or basketball game? Event are four hours apart by car. No drivers licence.
- What is the most important case here? This is a question about your priorities.
- Two people are relying on you. Think through the ramification of your actions.
- must be there for family or team (detail your thought process for choice)
A time when you had to make a similarly challenging decision?
- Reflect on the decision you made. What lessons did you learn.
Strategy for managing conflicting demands in your life.
- what did you learn? what tools did you use?

Situation 5: Retail store: customer doesn't have receipt to return item. Cashier can provide in store credit or change but no refund. Customer really needs refund to buy prescription medication for daughter.
What do you tell the other employee? Give a refund? Abide by store policy?
- Pressing issue is an ethical dilemma, help the customer as much as possible without compromisingthe store policy.
- Acknowledge the customers concerns lessons, sound concerned, have a private conversation
- Gather information, make sure the customer bought the item from the store
- look at the store's policy, see what you can do (could there be some leeway)
- manager is away. can we call someone else? can we call her?
- If refund possible, give it to customer. Otherwise apologize and look for other ways to help her.
- maybe recommend they contact family physician etc. (maybe there's a way for her to get the medication)
- Summary: gather information, look into, understand the full scope
What if employee gives the refund anyway, would you report her to the supervisor?
- Depends on store policy, upholding is duty as an employee
- If it was clearly against the rules....
- I would encourage her to thoroughly document what she did and let the supervisor know herself
- follow up with her if she hasn't reported the incident, and then report it myself
- give people the opportunity to do the right, be honest
What aspects would you consider if you established a new refund policy?
- I would want to hear from our customers first. What do they think of our return policy.
- determine what seems fair and appropiate from their perspective?
- also look into other stores.
- return policy should be transparent; uncomplicated, simple and universal
- maybe 4-5 rules to the policy, electronic and printed receipt
- establish an in house database (customer would have to enroll of their volition)

Summary:
- collect information
- demonstrate what you would do and how you would do it
- balance tensions, priorities and needs.

[Jessica-xcqp]

Whoever's reading this: Take a deep breath. You've got this!

[saramorgan]

i guess experts can type at 400 wpm to get this down in the time frame lol

[Anika_]

This video has a lot of very helpful tips, thank you! However, the expert response is waaaay too long and unrealistic to be thought of and typed within the time limit

[dd]

I was just on their website looking at the “expert” responses to a sample CASPer situation. The overall response the expert gave totaled about 1400 words among the three questions. This means that they would have had to type at about 280 wpm with no grammatical errors, mind you for questions they’ve never seen before. I think this is a good example of why this whole thing is laughable. A response like that simple isn’t even physically possible for about 99.9% of the earth’s population.

[youssefelbanna]

smooth integration of the cat, that's what shows true skill as a video presenter

[ILBBSM]

These were really great tips! But, how would you go about saying all of those aspects in the expert response in only 5 minutes?

[tonyalder]

Were you able to come up with and type the example responses within the time limit? I love the responses, very complete ideas of things I considered after the question. However, I don't see any way to give this complete of a response within the allotted time restrictions.

[scottweibye]

Concerning the last scenario, I am sure that the manager left someone in charge during their absence. Contacting this individual or the shift supervisor should be the first step.

[sgritchie]

These are great answers but how is anyone possibly supposed to answer this thoroughly in 5 minutes?

[ajhoffman]

Came for the content, stayed for the cat

[blyndwolf]

I did the CASPer last year for veterinary admission and I was graded 8/9 overall!! Unfortunately I didn't make it into vet school last year (that's the only reason I got my grade back), but I am applying again this year and trying for the CASPer again tomorrow! This video gave me great insight into some of the things I might have been missing to score that perfect 9! Thanks heaps :)

[winstondavey]

For the second prompt about if you'd suggest paternity leave or not, along with what you said, would it also be good to mention it would also depend on what kind of support system their family has and how they're doing financially? Of course, not asking for the details of their private life, but mentioning if they have inlaws or other family that could help while he is working, that could make it easier to continue working. If not, it would be very difficult for his wife to go through that time alone. Additionally for him to consider on his own how well they are doing financially. If they've been struggling with finances in any area of their life, doing this job and possibly getting an increased income would help a lot in the long run.

[dianacarbonate]

Great information AND a bonus cat?? A+.

[JC-hhlu]

1. You are answering these questions from HR's perspective, not yours. (You make everyone feel good, but ultimately follow policy and narc on coworkers.)
2. The test assumes ethics are context independent, e.g., your ethics regarding a refund as a minimum wage worker at Target reflect ethical decisions you would make as a doctor.

[kathryn]

I am rewatching the video in preparation for my exam and working with cat distractions too!!! :)

[CuxhavenErleben]

It is a very informative video, but the many interruptions due to advertisements are annoying.

[JM-mppi]

for the paternity leave example: good to mention many human resource departments have rules against discrimination of paternity leave, etc? or is that hitting it too hard

In the video he mentions a friend who took paternity leave and "was in the same role for months." Be good to highlight this might just be one perspective and he could talk with others in the company who have taken paternity leave to see where they ended up? Or talk with his supervisor about potentially teleworking/coming in for some half days of work (compromise)?

[yukhui]

I checked the first sample scenario from your website and it typing 192

[yasaminasbaghi]

The expert's response could be more helpful if it was not so long and was more realistic. Besides, as a cashier, who am I to give medical advice to a customer? That is clearly out of the scope of my career!!