2Situational judgement test (SJT) practice
DClinPsy SJT practice
Rank five responses to each of ten dilemmas. It takes about 20 minutes, and there is no time limit.
Scenario 1 of 10
Service Delivery
Checking your sent emails on placement in a memory clinic, you see that this morning's assessment summary went to a former client with a similar name.
Rank these responses from most appropriate to least appropriate.
Select the best response first, then the next best, until all five are numbered. Select a numbered response again to remove it.
No responses ranked yet.
0 of 5 ranked.
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What is situational judgement test (SJT) practice?
Practice in the situational judgement test (SJT) format, also called clinical judgement practice or scenario ranking. You rank five responses to a clinical or professional dilemma. The feedback explains each ranking and cites the standard or law.
Is this practice any DClinPsy course’s own test?
No. Three courses name a situational judgement test:
- University of Exeter: Casper, “an online, open-response situational judgment test”, for 2028 entry. Casper is open-response, not ranking, so this practice is not it.
- University of Edinburgh: “an online Situational Judgment Task”, for 2027 entry.
- Salomons: “The Clinical Psychology Situational Judgement Test” (CP SJT), for 2026 entry. Salomons says its 2027 tests are under review.
Sources: University of Exeter, checked ; University of Edinburgh, checked ; Salomons, checked .
None of those tests is published, so this practice does not claim to match their format. It works on the reasoning they and many interviews look for: which principle comes first when several conflict.
How it is scored
Each response earns up to 4 points, fewer the further you place it from the right position, so a scenario is worth 20. This is our own scoring, not a course’s marking scheme.
- Exact
- 4
- One out
- 3
- Two out
- 2
- Three out
- 1
- Four out
- 0
Each scenario scores between 8 and 20. A random order averages about 12.