The CASPer test is designed to ensure that you have the correct blend of values and attributes to study Medicine. As such, marking is performed by trainer raters, who will look for specific details in your answers. Whether or not there are particular ‘red flags’ is debatable, but the simplest way to approach this question is to see a red flag as anything that doesn’t tally with the correct blend of attributes.
A CASPer Prep course will be able to better inform you of the kind of content that will be marked highly, and that which will receive a lesser mark. However, let’s consider this further:
If you are given a question which seems to fit with the ‘empathy’ competency, then green flags or components of an answer that would receive a good mark would include:
- Demonstrated empathy in the past
- Able to define empathy
- Understanding of empathy, compassion, and sympathy
- Willingness to listen to others and work alongside them, and/or support them in a difficult time
- Awareness of the relationship between empathy and compassion fatigue
Red flags would therefore constitute not having shown empathy in the past, not showing empathy in a theoretical scenario, not being able to define empathy or understand how it relates to other traits, etc. Through training yourself on the different question types, and with the help of a CASper Tutor or CASPer Prep Course, you will be better able to identify green flags, and thus avoid giving an answer that could see you receive a low score.
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