Well, it was a very interesting test, a very hard test. And the bottom line is... I passed!!!
I got up at a reasonable hour this morning, checked e-mail, had my necessary coffee, and then started my review. I didn’t go very far before the ‘overload factor’ had cut in. I basically drew the clock again, then swept through the anatomy pictures, glanced over the pathology book, at least the listing of diseases. Once done with that, I did a short meditation.
I left early as it was raining hard. I didn’t want to be late. They gave me a test time of 12 noon, and wanted me there a half hour early. My preparedness got me there an hour early. When I checked in, the lady told me there was a station open, and asked if I wanted to start early. Hmmm, let’s see, start early, or sit around an hour while my brain goes into a full panic? I decided to start early.
The tests are given at testing centers, and they are all on computer. The center gives tests for many subjects, accounting, massage, etc. The room had 16 work stations, and was very quiet except for the sounds of keys tapping, and mice being licked. They are very paranoid there about possible cheaters. I had to empty everything out of my pockets, though I did get to keep the yellow tigers eye that Linda had given me to help me remember. I could have left it in the locker and touched it from the room, but I kept it. They told me it was ok as long as I didn’t pull it out and play with it. They gave me six pieces of scrap paper, and two pencils. The paper was later counted to make sure I was returning six sheets. Each work station is on camera surveillance so people can’t hide answers in their underwear (or so I would surmise). I guess the next step to make sure people don’t cheat is to have them take the test naked.
The lady started the five minute practice test to familiarize me with the software. After I had finished that, my test time started. I had two hours and 40 minutes to take the test, 160 questions. I immediately took 10 minutes to draw the meridian clock. Supposedly, for some point of validity, they would drop 20 questions at random. They could be 20 I got right or wrong. I thought that I would be looking at 170 questions, so I don’t know what the real plan was.
I did one more thing before starting the test, I got to a minor meditative state, and drew in the gold, silver, and blue rays so my guides could come in and help if they wanted. Actually, I did notice during the test, I would read a question, and then suddenly I would be directed back to a couple words in the question that changed the way I was thinking of it. This actually corrected my misreading of it. I was definitely being pointed. Someone was helping me, and I thank them.
When I had finished all the questions, I had marked 44 that I wasn’t sure of. I know that when one is guessing, they need to go with their first answer, and in most of the cases I did that. I did change several though.
At any rate, I finished the test and went out to the other room where the head matron was. She pulled the page out of the printer, looked at it and said “Hmm, massage, congratulations, you’re one of the few that passed.” I was floored. She said that it was a hard test, and I knew that it was a hard test, but I didn’t think the failure rate was as high as she was insinuating. Wow. I looked at the bottom of the notarized page she gave me. There were classification and level indicators. Although they don’t give me the score, they do give a rating in the four categories that they test one in.