National Occupational Therapy Reflection

This course acts as a means to prepare students to take the National Occupational Therapy Certification Exam. It is within this class that students will receive test taking strategies, guide to study, to practice computerized exams and allow the professor to assess the students and learn their areas of strength and deficits according to the course syllabus. Learning the areas of strength and weakness will all the student to focus on more areas than others. It will allow the student to know where to start studying and know how much time should they spent on the different domains. This class is good for the Occupational Program as it allows for the professor to again know the students’ strength and weakness. This will help the professors when they teach the material to students. The professor can maybe suggest books to the students where they can focus on certain areas of weakness. This will allow the student to learn because they have material for guidance. Any profession, especially in the medical field, civilians want to have comfort that
The exams have a similar format of the state board exams. This gives the students a feel for taking the exams and what to expect. It sets the mood of what’s to come when in the actual testing center. If students practice now, when they are in the actual testing environment their anxiety will not be as bad because they already know what to expect. The primary purpose of the NBCOT exam is to protect the consumers. It shows that the only people treating the consumers are the ones that showed and proved their knowledge of occupational therapy practice. In addition, passing the NBCOT exam displays that a person shows entry-level competence and have met all requirements for certification. Passing the OTKE exam shows that the student has the knowledge and entry-level competence to pass the NBCOT exam for their