I purchased study material from Mometrix Media, LLC; ($59.99) to prepare myself for a Series 65 exam. I studied until I knew the material "inside and out", however when I took the exam, I failed because there were many questions on the exam that had not been covered in the study material.
I am very upset because I paid $155 for the exam, studied for days, paid $40 for a tank of gas, 2.5 hours on the road; "each way", and 3 hours taking the exam, all for naught!! Now I must purchase new study material; from a reputable company, wait another month before being allowed to retake the exam, pay another $155 for the exam, gas, driving time, and so on.
I had a job waiting for me, and the company has been very patient however they cannot wait indefinitely. I need this job for my financial survival.
I am studying preparing for the Medical Surgical Certification test and went online to find material that would help me study for this exam. The MoMetrix system uses flash cards, which I have used in the past when I have prepared for a test. What I received in the mail was a sheath of papers that you have to seperate 250 cards along perforated lines. None of the material is organized so that you can put the cards in any sort of order according to catagory. The print is so small and jammed together, that even with glasses on your eyes hurt after just a short time of looking at it. You cannot study for long without getting a headache. I think flashcards is a good idea, but I believe this company is out to bilk the public with a poor quality product for a large sum of money. After shipping and taxes I paid over $50.00. There is no phone number in which you may call and speak to somone, there is only a customer support email. I have requested my money back, but have a feeling this will be met with resistence. We'll see.
I am currently studying Mometrix's 'DSST Ethics in America Exam Secrets' guide. While the guide surely contains some useful information, I have to say that I find its numerous instances of flagrant evangelical preaching distracting and unhelpful.
Many evangelical Christian beliefs are perplexingly stated as facts throughout the text, for instance:
"Those who believe in God are motivated to follow His commands, which tends to lead toward happiness on earth as well and secures [sic] rewards in Heaven";
"To make the most ethical choices, we must check out facts of the situation, take a close look at the most honorable approach, ask God's advice, and then we can make actual ethical choices"; and,
"Happiness is something that fills us with positive energy and reminds us God, our creator, is blessing us."
Such passages are not grounded in secular empiricism and, I would wager, will not help me pass the DSST. In fact, the author's general avoidance and rejection of the myriad historic and contemporary critiques of theological ethical theories, like Divine Command and Natural Law, may well hurt my chances of passing the exam.
There is a gulf of difference between teaching about religion to explain the origin of ideas in an historic context (e.g. Aquinas' ethics) and proselytizing. I'm sorry to say that even a Christian student of ethics would find passages like those I've cited unhelpful in preparing for a secular exam. That Mometrix has chosen an ethics study guide as a Trojan horse for its religious obscurantism is tremendously ironic.
Mometrix should consider a thorough revision to orient the content of the guide toward the secular nature of DSST exams.
As a proctor of the CHT exam, as well as contributor to writing some of the test questions, I can tell you this material will offer you a limited generic history of HBO, much of which is not included in the exam.
The instructions for test application; preparation and rules to become a CHT and CHRN that come from the NBDHMT resource manual are adapted into many of the flashcard questions. I assure you those details ARE NOT incorporated into the CHT exam. That accounts for about 20 questions.
The flash card set I reviewed was from 2012, however the authors quote only NFPA 99 from the 1999 edition. Three more editions have been out since and the current CHT exam refers to codes applicable to the 2012 edition of NFPA99. So they discuss codes that may no longer apply.
A blatant error on one-flashcard states Oxygen is Flammable! Oxygen is a component to the fire triangle but left alone, Oxygen it is not flammable! Anyone who reads that card and doesn’t understand it’s incorrect will surely miss that test question on the CHT exam.
This study set says it is specifically for CHT exam applicants. However, there are approx. 15-20 flashcards that relate to the BNA's exam process and nursing standard care aspects for the CHRN. None of those questions are on the CHT exam.
Things are over generalized like stating something like: Oxygen % in the chamber must be controlled due to the risks of the fire. Well duh! But the CHT exam is going to ask what is the maximum allowable percentage of oxygen inside the Class A chamber. The answer is 23.5% but the flashcard isn’t going to tell you that! Same with all the NFPA 99 requirements for amps, voltage, fire suppression requirements, high pressure valves, wiring and other limits on allowables in the chamber.
The flashcards are really no more of a study tool than reading the free NBDHMT resource manual that tells you to refer to resources like NFPA, and other known textbooks like Workman and Kindwall.
The cards cover a lot of details on treatment protocols, however our industry cannot seem to agree on any one protocol therefore the CHT exam DOES NOT test on protocols with the exception of understanding how to run a DCS treatment table 5 and 6. Of course the flashcards do not discuss how we do that slow (1psi/min) ascent in a chamber.
There is no information about safety for the inside attendants who acquire DCS while working with patients however we need to know this for the exam.
The TCOM information is either unhelpful or inaccurate. Practice problems for dive scenarios with bottom time factors and gas laws would have been helpful to be included.
Responding to a hyperbaric patient emergency or complication (like when to stop compression or emergently decompress) is a huge focus for the CHT exam however, again the flashcards do not cover any specifics other than stating the tech should be prepared for the unexpected!
There are many cards with extra irrelevant information that you would be wasting a lot of time on trying to understand yet never see in a CHT exam or apply in a HBO setting. Clearly a clinical minded team did not write this nor did they bother to have someone proof the material. They simply copied and pasted details (from the internet perhaps) and threw it down on note cards, slapped a hefty charge on it and made promises that you can't dispute like "guaranteed to raise your test score!" Unless this is your second time taking the exam, how do know if it raised your score? I feel sorry for the folks that invest into only this material as test prep because I can almost guarantee you failure!
Mometrix Media, LLC Reviews
I purchased study material from Mometrix Media, LLC; ($59.99) to prepare myself for a Series 65 exam. I studied until I knew the material "inside and out", however when I took the exam, I failed because there were many questions on the exam that had not been covered in the study material.
I am very upset because I paid $155 for the exam, studied for days, paid $40 for a tank of gas, 2.5 hours on the road; "each way", and 3 hours taking the exam, all for naught!! Now I must purchase new study material; from a reputable company, wait another month before being allowed to retake the exam, pay another $155 for the exam, gas, driving time, and so on.
I had a job waiting for me, and the company has been very patient however they cannot wait indefinitely. I need this job for my financial survival.
I am studying preparing for the Medical Surgical Certification test and went online to find material that would help me study for this exam. The MoMetrix system uses flash cards, which I have used in the past when I have prepared for a test. What I received in the mail was a sheath of papers that you have to seperate 250 cards along perforated lines. None of the material is organized so that you can put the cards in any sort of order according to catagory. The print is so small and jammed together, that even with glasses on your eyes hurt after just a short time of looking at it. You cannot study for long without getting a headache. I think flashcards is a good idea, but I believe this company is out to bilk the public with a poor quality product for a large sum of money. After shipping and taxes I paid over $50.00. There is no phone number in which you may call and speak to somone, there is only a customer support email. I have requested my money back, but have a feeling this will be met with resistence. We'll see.
I am currently studying Mometrix's 'DSST Ethics in America Exam Secrets' guide. While the guide surely contains some useful information, I have to say that I find its numerous instances of flagrant evangelical preaching distracting and unhelpful.
Many evangelical Christian beliefs are perplexingly stated as facts throughout the text, for instance:
"Those who believe in God are motivated to follow His commands, which tends to lead toward happiness on earth as well and secures [sic] rewards in Heaven";
"To make the most ethical choices, we must check out facts of the situation, take a close look at the most honorable approach, ask God's advice, and then we can make actual ethical choices"; and,
"Happiness is something that fills us with positive energy and reminds us God, our creator, is blessing us."
Such passages are not grounded in secular empiricism and, I would wager, will not help me pass the DSST. In fact, the author's general avoidance and rejection of the myriad historic and contemporary critiques of theological ethical theories, like Divine Command and Natural Law, may well hurt my chances of passing the exam.
There is a gulf of difference between teaching about religion to explain the origin of ideas in an historic context (e.g. Aquinas' ethics) and proselytizing. I'm sorry to say that even a Christian student of ethics would find passages like those I've cited unhelpful in preparing for a secular exam. That Mometrix has chosen an ethics study guide as a Trojan horse for its religious obscurantism is tremendously ironic.
Mometrix should consider a thorough revision to orient the content of the guide toward the secular nature of DSST exams.
As a proctor of the CHT exam, as well as contributor to writing some of the test questions, I can tell you this material will offer you a limited generic history of HBO, much of which is not included in the exam.
The instructions for test application; preparation and rules to become a CHT and CHRN that come from the NBDHMT resource manual are adapted into many of the flashcard questions. I assure you those details ARE NOT incorporated into the CHT exam. That accounts for about 20 questions.
The flash card set I reviewed was from 2012, however the authors quote only NFPA 99 from the 1999 edition. Three more editions have been out since and the current CHT exam refers to codes applicable to the 2012 edition of NFPA99. So they discuss codes that may no longer apply.
A blatant error on one-flashcard states Oxygen is Flammable! Oxygen is a component to the fire triangle but left alone, Oxygen it is not flammable! Anyone who reads that card and doesn’t understand it’s incorrect will surely miss that test question on the CHT exam.
This study set says it is specifically for CHT exam applicants. However, there are approx. 15-20 flashcards that relate to the BNA's exam process and nursing standard care aspects for the CHRN. None of those questions are on the CHT exam.
Things are over generalized like stating something like: Oxygen % in the chamber must be controlled due to the risks of the fire. Well duh! But the CHT exam is going to ask what is the maximum allowable percentage of oxygen inside the Class A chamber. The answer is 23.5% but the flashcard isn’t going to tell you that! Same with all the NFPA 99 requirements for amps, voltage, fire suppression requirements, high pressure valves, wiring and other limits on allowables in the chamber.
The flashcards are really no more of a study tool than reading the free NBDHMT resource manual that tells you to refer to resources like NFPA, and other known textbooks like Workman and Kindwall.
The cards cover a lot of details on treatment protocols, however our industry cannot seem to agree on any one protocol therefore the CHT exam DOES NOT test on protocols with the exception of understanding how to run a DCS treatment table 5 and 6. Of course the flashcards do not discuss how we do that slow (1psi/min) ascent in a chamber.
There is no information about safety for the inside attendants who acquire DCS while working with patients however we need to know this for the exam.
The TCOM information is either unhelpful or inaccurate. Practice problems for dive scenarios with bottom time factors and gas laws would have been helpful to be included.
Responding to a hyperbaric patient emergency or complication (like when to stop compression or emergently decompress) is a huge focus for the CHT exam however, again the flashcards do not cover any specifics other than stating the tech should be prepared for the unexpected!
There are many cards with extra irrelevant information that you would be wasting a lot of time on trying to understand yet never see in a CHT exam or apply in a HBO setting. Clearly a clinical minded team did not write this nor did they bother to have someone proof the material. They simply copied and pasted details (from the internet perhaps) and threw it down on note cards, slapped a hefty charge on it and made promises that you can't dispute like "guaranteed to raise your test score!" Unless this is your second time taking the exam, how do know if it raised your score? I feel sorry for the folks that invest into only this material as test prep because I can almost guarantee you failure!