NLP MASTER PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION TEST EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
List and discuss 10 presuppositions of NLP. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Respect for the other persons
model of the world.2. Behavior & Change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology.3.
Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.4. People are not their behaviors.5. Everyone is doing
the best they can with the resources they have available.6. The Map is not the territory.7. You are in
charge of your mind & therefore your results.8. People have all the resources they need to succeed and
achieve their desired outcomes.9. There is only feed back.10. The Meaning of communication is the
response you get.
What is ecology and how do you know when you have it? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Thinking in terms of
what happens after you make a desired change. How does it affect a persons home, their family, their
finances, their health, etc.? Is the change in line with their value system? Is it what they really want?
What is the difference between content and process? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅NLP is a process model.
Content is the story, opinion, gossip, or interpretation that colors much communication. Process is the
means of handling ideas and matters in the world.
List ten Meta Programs, the question to elicit them, and how you use them in at least two contexts
(either business, education, or therapy) for each Meta Program. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. External
Behavior - Introvert/Extrovert
When its the time to recharge your batteries, do you prefer to be alone or with people?
Business - Recruitment to suit the role.
Therapy - To help couples understand how they re-energize most effectively.
2. Internal Process - Intuitor/Sensor
If you were going to study a certain subject, would you be more interested solely in the facts and their
application for the now, or would you be interested in the ideas and relationships between the facts and
their application for the future?
Business - In recruiting to ensure that you get the right personality for the role, help future retention
levels.
Therapy - To enable people to communicate more effectively, at the same chunk level.
3. Internal State - Thinker/Feeler
When you make a decision do you rely more on impersonal reason & logic or more on personal values?
Business - To align board members to company values.
, Therapy - To help people to deal with resistance to past events and move on.
4. Adaptive Response - Judge/Perceiver
If we were going to do a project together, would you prefer that it were outlined, planned, and orderly
or would you prefer that we were able to be more flexible in the project?
Business - To enable you to manage someone more effectively.
Therapy - To aid couples in understanding others actions.
5. Toward/Away From
What do you want in a job?
Business - To set effective bonus/disciplinary schemes in managing people.
Therapy - to enable better goal setting.
6. Reason (or modal operator) filter - Possibility/Necessity
Why did you choose your present job?
Business - Again helps to enable a manager to manage to a persons strengths and to build rapport.
Therapy - To relieve stress.
7. Frame of reference filter
How do you know when you have done a good job? Do you know inside, or does someone have to tell
you
List at least 5 Sleight of Mouth Patterns and give examples of how to use them with the statement of X
causes Y. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Statement: "You're late again, which means you don't love me."
1. Meta - Frame: "Where did you learn that being on time equates to love?"
2. Apply to self: "An accusation like that makes it sound like you don't love me."
3. Counter example: "Have you ever loved someone, but still been late?"
4. Intent: "I'm glad that you care enough about me to be concerned about that."
5. Consequence: "You're just trying to get me to always fit within your timetable."
What is Value or Criteria? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Values are high level generalizations that describe
that which is important to you. Sometimes called criteria. NLP Values can be thought of as the buttons
that either attract or repel us in life. They determine if we are going towards or away from a result.
Values are 1. those things which are important to us. 2. how we judge what we have done. 3.
nominalizations. 4. serve as an evaluation filter and governs all human behaviors.
AND ANSWERS
List and discuss 10 presuppositions of NLP. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Respect for the other persons
model of the world.2. Behavior & Change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology.3.
Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.4. People are not their behaviors.5. Everyone is doing
the best they can with the resources they have available.6. The Map is not the territory.7. You are in
charge of your mind & therefore your results.8. People have all the resources they need to succeed and
achieve their desired outcomes.9. There is only feed back.10. The Meaning of communication is the
response you get.
What is ecology and how do you know when you have it? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Thinking in terms of
what happens after you make a desired change. How does it affect a persons home, their family, their
finances, their health, etc.? Is the change in line with their value system? Is it what they really want?
What is the difference between content and process? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅NLP is a process model.
Content is the story, opinion, gossip, or interpretation that colors much communication. Process is the
means of handling ideas and matters in the world.
List ten Meta Programs, the question to elicit them, and how you use them in at least two contexts
(either business, education, or therapy) for each Meta Program. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. External
Behavior - Introvert/Extrovert
When its the time to recharge your batteries, do you prefer to be alone or with people?
Business - Recruitment to suit the role.
Therapy - To help couples understand how they re-energize most effectively.
2. Internal Process - Intuitor/Sensor
If you were going to study a certain subject, would you be more interested solely in the facts and their
application for the now, or would you be interested in the ideas and relationships between the facts and
their application for the future?
Business - In recruiting to ensure that you get the right personality for the role, help future retention
levels.
Therapy - To enable people to communicate more effectively, at the same chunk level.
3. Internal State - Thinker/Feeler
When you make a decision do you rely more on impersonal reason & logic or more on personal values?
Business - To align board members to company values.
, Therapy - To help people to deal with resistance to past events and move on.
4. Adaptive Response - Judge/Perceiver
If we were going to do a project together, would you prefer that it were outlined, planned, and orderly
or would you prefer that we were able to be more flexible in the project?
Business - To enable you to manage someone more effectively.
Therapy - To aid couples in understanding others actions.
5. Toward/Away From
What do you want in a job?
Business - To set effective bonus/disciplinary schemes in managing people.
Therapy - to enable better goal setting.
6. Reason (or modal operator) filter - Possibility/Necessity
Why did you choose your present job?
Business - Again helps to enable a manager to manage to a persons strengths and to build rapport.
Therapy - To relieve stress.
7. Frame of reference filter
How do you know when you have done a good job? Do you know inside, or does someone have to tell
you
List at least 5 Sleight of Mouth Patterns and give examples of how to use them with the statement of X
causes Y. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Statement: "You're late again, which means you don't love me."
1. Meta - Frame: "Where did you learn that being on time equates to love?"
2. Apply to self: "An accusation like that makes it sound like you don't love me."
3. Counter example: "Have you ever loved someone, but still been late?"
4. Intent: "I'm glad that you care enough about me to be concerned about that."
5. Consequence: "You're just trying to get me to always fit within your timetable."
What is Value or Criteria? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Values are high level generalizations that describe
that which is important to you. Sometimes called criteria. NLP Values can be thought of as the buttons
that either attract or repel us in life. They determine if we are going towards or away from a result.
Values are 1. those things which are important to us. 2. how we judge what we have done. 3.
nominalizations. 4. serve as an evaluation filter and governs all human behaviors.
