AAMC Situational Judgment Test Practice Exam Booklet 2025 Complete Study Guide and
Professional Skills Assessment Preparation
I - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Tell your classmate that only the professor is qualified to provide feedback.
VE - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Explain to your professor that you understand you missed some opportunities during the
exercise and discuss how to improve.
VI - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Skip the debriefing session because you have already received feedback.
,VE - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Ask your classmate how you could improve your performance in the future.
I - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Explain to your professor why you were satisfied with your performance.
VE - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Ask your classmate if they would be willing to practice role playing in advance of your next
exercise.
VI - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
,opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Ask your classmate not to bring up the negative feedback during your debriefing session.
E - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Confirm your classmate's feedback with your professor.
VI - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Skip your lab for two weeks to attend the volunteer opportunity.
I - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Ask your lab instructor to identify a solution that will allow you to attend both.
, E - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Stop pursuing the volunteer opportunity so that you can attend the required lab.
VI - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Tell your lab instructor in advance that you will miss two of your scheduled lab sessions.
VE - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Attend the lab and investigate if similar volunteer opportunities are available at another time.
E - correct answer ✔✔You are assigned to a small group in your clinical skills course. One of
your group members has recently struggled with their assignments. The group member is often
late to sessions, prepares materials of poor quality, and needs numerous reminders to complete
tasks. Your group receives a new assignment that is due in three weeks and will be graded based
on the group's overall performance.
Encourage the group member to speak to the professor about creating a plan to handle their
workload.
Professional Skills Assessment Preparation
I - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Tell your classmate that only the professor is qualified to provide feedback.
VE - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Explain to your professor that you understand you missed some opportunities during the
exercise and discuss how to improve.
VI - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Skip the debriefing session because you have already received feedback.
,VE - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Ask your classmate how you could improve your performance in the future.
I - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Explain to your professor why you were satisfied with your performance.
VE - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Ask your classmate if they would be willing to practice role playing in advance of your next
exercise.
VI - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
,opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Ask your classmate not to bring up the negative feedback during your debriefing session.
E - correct answer ✔✔During class, your professor observes you participating in a role-play
exercise with one of your classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is acting as
an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on course. You think you performed well, but,
after class, your classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you missed several
opportunities to comfort the patient and calm the situation. You are now expected to attend a
debriefing session with your professor.
Confirm your classmate's feedback with your professor.
VI - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Skip your lab for two weeks to attend the volunteer opportunity.
I - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Ask your lab instructor to identify a solution that will allow you to attend both.
, E - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Stop pursuing the volunteer opportunity so that you can attend the required lab.
VI - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Tell your lab instructor in advance that you will miss two of your scheduled lab sessions.
VE - correct answer ✔✔You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity at a well-regarded
local clinic. When you receive your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab is offered this
semester, so you are not able to make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Attend the lab and investigate if similar volunteer opportunities are available at another time.
E - correct answer ✔✔You are assigned to a small group in your clinical skills course. One of
your group members has recently struggled with their assignments. The group member is often
late to sessions, prepares materials of poor quality, and needs numerous reminders to complete
tasks. Your group receives a new assignment that is due in three weeks and will be graded based
on the group's overall performance.
Encourage the group member to speak to the professor about creating a plan to handle their
workload.
