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THE NATIONAL COUNSELING EXAM (NCE) NEWEST 2025/2026
ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
A counselor works at a hospital which allows a maximum of eight
group counseling sessions on an outpatient basis. The counselor
is to begin a new group consisting primarily of recovering
alcoholics. Under these circumstances, because the counselor is
flexible in the theoretical approach she can use, she decides that
the best approach would be
A. transactional analysis.
B. client-centered.
C. psychoanalytical.
D. existential. - ANSWER-A. transactional analysis.
A school counselor notices what appear to be bruises on a sixth-
grade girl in counseling. The counselor recalls seeing the girl in
the hallway a month earlier and she had a black eye. In response
to the counselor's questions, the girl is evasive. Upon continued
questioning, she says she hurt herself falling down while inline
skating. The counselor
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A. dismisses the matter.
B. schedules another appointment.
C. notifies the appropriate authorities of suspected child abuse.
D. sends the girl to inline skating lessons. - ANSWER-C. notifies
the appropriate authorities of suspected child abuse.
According to Adler and others, birth order tends to result in unique
psychological traits and social development. In counseling, birth
order can help explain clients' traits and behaviors. Individuals
who are carefree, outgoing, and not rule-oriented and those
individuals who are early maturers, high achievers and never
"dethroned" are probably
A. second born and only children.
B. firstborns and youngest children.
C. middle and only children.
D. second borns and middle children. - ANSWER-A. second born
and only children.
A high school career counselor had 24 seniors sign up for a three-
session job-seeking skills workshop. He randomly assigned 12
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students to the job-seeking group and 12 to a control group. The
counselor developed some new materials and techniques to be
used by the 'experimental' group. In designing this study, the
counselor was also concerned about
A. providing a placebo experience to the control group.
B. the Hawthorne effect.
C. confidentiality.
D. the halo effect.- - ANSWER-A. providing a placebo experience
to the control group.
People of similar cultural background occasionally believe that
their group is the center of everything- that it sets the standard for
other groups to follow. This belief is called
A. racism.
B. prejudice.
C. cultural awareness.
D. ethnocentrism. - ANSWER-D. ethnocentrism.
According to Piaget, when a child is egocentric and unable to take
the viewpoint of other people, he or she is in the stage called
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A. concrete operations.
B. preoperational thought.
C. sensorimotor.
D. formal operations - ANSWER-B. preoperational thought.
A middle school principal is curious whether different math-
teaching techniques result in different (and better) math learning.
She has three classrooms of fourth-grade math students and
assigns different math-teaching techniques to the three teachers
to use for the school year. All students completed the same math
exam in September as a pretest and will posttest in May. Upon
examining math pretest scores, the principal finds that the
Classroom A mean math score is 72, Classroom B mean is 88,
and Classroom C mean is 73. In May, after posttest data are
collected, an appropriate statistical procedure for the principal to
apply first is
A. multiple regression.
B. analysis of covariance.
C. /-test.
D. analysis of variance. - ANSWER-B. analysis of covariance.
THE NATIONAL COUNSELING EXAM (NCE) NEWEST 2025/2026
ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
A counselor works at a hospital which allows a maximum of eight
group counseling sessions on an outpatient basis. The counselor
is to begin a new group consisting primarily of recovering
alcoholics. Under these circumstances, because the counselor is
flexible in the theoretical approach she can use, she decides that
the best approach would be
A. transactional analysis.
B. client-centered.
C. psychoanalytical.
D. existential. - ANSWER-A. transactional analysis.
A school counselor notices what appear to be bruises on a sixth-
grade girl in counseling. The counselor recalls seeing the girl in
the hallway a month earlier and she had a black eye. In response
to the counselor's questions, the girl is evasive. Upon continued
questioning, she says she hurt herself falling down while inline
skating. The counselor
,2|Page
A. dismisses the matter.
B. schedules another appointment.
C. notifies the appropriate authorities of suspected child abuse.
D. sends the girl to inline skating lessons. - ANSWER-C. notifies
the appropriate authorities of suspected child abuse.
According to Adler and others, birth order tends to result in unique
psychological traits and social development. In counseling, birth
order can help explain clients' traits and behaviors. Individuals
who are carefree, outgoing, and not rule-oriented and those
individuals who are early maturers, high achievers and never
"dethroned" are probably
A. second born and only children.
B. firstborns and youngest children.
C. middle and only children.
D. second borns and middle children. - ANSWER-A. second born
and only children.
A high school career counselor had 24 seniors sign up for a three-
session job-seeking skills workshop. He randomly assigned 12
,3|Page
students to the job-seeking group and 12 to a control group. The
counselor developed some new materials and techniques to be
used by the 'experimental' group. In designing this study, the
counselor was also concerned about
A. providing a placebo experience to the control group.
B. the Hawthorne effect.
C. confidentiality.
D. the halo effect.- - ANSWER-A. providing a placebo experience
to the control group.
People of similar cultural background occasionally believe that
their group is the center of everything- that it sets the standard for
other groups to follow. This belief is called
A. racism.
B. prejudice.
C. cultural awareness.
D. ethnocentrism. - ANSWER-D. ethnocentrism.
According to Piaget, when a child is egocentric and unable to take
the viewpoint of other people, he or she is in the stage called
, 4|Page
A. concrete operations.
B. preoperational thought.
C. sensorimotor.
D. formal operations - ANSWER-B. preoperational thought.
A middle school principal is curious whether different math-
teaching techniques result in different (and better) math learning.
She has three classrooms of fourth-grade math students and
assigns different math-teaching techniques to the three teachers
to use for the school year. All students completed the same math
exam in September as a pretest and will posttest in May. Upon
examining math pretest scores, the principal finds that the
Classroom A mean math score is 72, Classroom B mean is 88,
and Classroom C mean is 73. In May, after posttest data are
collected, an appropriate statistical procedure for the principal to
apply first is
A. multiple regression.
B. analysis of covariance.
C. /-test.
D. analysis of variance. - ANSWER-B. analysis of covariance.
