The BOC offers self assessment exams to students preparing for the BOC certification exam or Certified Athletic Trainers seeking an assessment of their continuing education needs. Content experts who develop the BOC certification exam wrote the questions in these self assessment exams, which will help to determine areas of strength and weakness in athletic training for future study or to identify continuing education needs.

The BOC will begin offering integrated self assessment exams on February 16, 2010. The BOC will offer the integrated self assessment exams in test and study modes, and each integrated self assessment exam will include 65 multiple-choice questions, 1 focused testlet with 5 alternative item type questions and 5 stand-alone alternative item type questions that are representative of the questions on the BOC certification exam. Please note that 50 of the 65 multiple-choice questions on each version of the integrated self assessment exam may be the same as the respective version of the multiple-choice self assessment exam. Although the content areas of the self assessment exams are comparable to those of the actual certification exam, the questions included in the self assessment exams will never appear on a future certification exam.

The self assessment exams are available via the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will have one year from the purchase date to complete a self assessment exam once you have paid and established a username and password. NOTE: You will not be allowed to go back to the self assessment exam after you have submitted it for scoring.

Before you take a self assessment exam, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the testing environment by viewing the Testing Instructions and taking the free Sample Test. In addition, please Be Certain.™ to check your System Requirements. When you are ready to take the self assessment exam, simply create a User Account, purchase the exam and begin testing.

If you experience technical difficulties with the self assessment exam(s), including logging in to the system, please contact CASTLE Worldwide at (919) 572-6880. If you reach CASTLE outside of normal business hours, please leave a message.

If you have comments or questions regarding the self assessment exam(s), email ShannonL@bocatc.org or call (877) 262-3926 ext. 114.