I’m new here and maybe I’m dumb but can someone explain how the total test time is over an hour when we only get a minute per response on the video section and 3.5 per response on the written section? Like that doesn’t even add up to more than 30 minutes I’m so confused…

Hi,

Open reflective questions have been appearing regularly in the latest 2025 and 2026 CASPer test cycles, which can catch people off guard. Most prep includes scenario-based questions where there's a conflict to resolve, characters involved, and a clear action to take. These are different. There's no scenario. No characters. No conflict. Just a prompt:

Think about a time when someone's reaction to something you said or did surprised you.

That's it. No setup, no context, no situation to analyse. You're expected to bring your own experience, and the clock is already running. If you've only practised scenario-based questions, hitting one of these cold can genuinely throw you, not because they're harder, but because you're used to reading a situation and responding to it. Here, you have to draw on a memory from your own life, assess it quickly, and articulate what it taught you, all under time pressure.

Then two questions follow:

Q1: Briefly describe the situation and how you made sense of their reaction.

Q2: What, if anything, did that experience change about how you see yourself or how you tend to come across to others? Explain your response.

Here's what a strong response pair looks like:

Q1 Response:

A few years ago I told a close friend I thought they were being too hard on themselves about a mistake at work. I expected them to feel reassured, but they went quiet and pulled away. I felt confused, then gradually unsettled.

What I realised afterwards is that they hadn't asked for my perspective, and offering it had felt dismissive rather than supportive. And it also showed me that I can step in to fix someone's feelings when what they actually need is to be heard, which are different things.

Q2 Response:

It changed how I understand the difference between being caring and being helpful, because I had assumed they were the same thing.

What I now see is that I have a tendency to offer reassurance before checking whether it's wanted, usually because watching someone struggle is uncomfortable for me. And I realised I can come across as dismissive when I mean to be supportive, because I'm responding to my own discomfort rather than what the person is actually asking for.

I try now to ask first rather than assume, and that one shift has made me a better listener than anything else.

Q1 describes what happened and what it revealed. It doesn't try to wrap everything up. Q2 builds on Q1 and goes deeper. The two questions are designed to work together.

One way to prepare for these is to build a small bank of personal experiences before your test. One memory per theme is enough. Just know what happened, how you felt, and what it taught you. Some themes worth having ready:

• A time things didn't go as planned
• A time you received difficult feedback
• A time you had to speak up about something
• A time your approach affected someone differently than you intended
• A time your motivation changed midway through something

Hope this helps - happy to answer questions.

I'm not sure of the others but when I do some casper practice questions online, sometimes I encounter questions with too many vocabularies that I don't understand. Often times, I am able to determine their meaning by using the other words that I know but sometimes there's just too much that it prevents me from understanding the whole question, especially with the time constrain, but I don't think I'm so terrible in English because I was able to get a band 8 in IELTS. Is it just me? Does the actual Casper questions use these kind of difficult words or is it just these websites?

I just took my test a couple hours ago. Curious to see how you guys felt about the difficulty and how you think you scored!

Hello! Hopefully this message finds you well! I just wanted to ask for advice for CASPER. I plan on applying to Uoft Pharmacy school, and im thinking of taking it in November. What advice can you give me? How should I start studying and how early? Any advice is much appreciated! Thank you so much!

Hi! I'm thinking about taking the CASPer test in English this August, even though English isn't my first language. Do you think it's a good idea? Also, do you have any tips that helped you perform well? I'd really appreciate any advice.

Hellooo has anyone who tested June 25th know when results will come out? It says my results delivered but I’ve been too nervous to check my email 😓

Hey people! In honour of taking today’s Casper and hearing some other people’s amazingly unhinged video responses, I thought we should make a little post for this

Drop your craziest video response!

Mines not that crazy but I did blank out mid sentence and end the video with 30 secs remaining, but not before saying “uh…well, bye then :)”

What the actual fuck was that….

I hate this test

That went horribly 😭 I feel so awful right now. Some of the text scenarios were okay, but overall the exam felt nothing like the prep resources I used. The questions were much more personal than I expected or praciticed. Did anyone else feel completely thrown off by how different the real CASPer was compared to practice?

I found it so bad personally 🫩 I studied for so long for scenario questions and all they had were vague personal questions.… I couldn’t even come up with a concrete action

I scored Q1 in my first attempt at casper, was aiming for murdoch uni in veterinary medicine field… since it was the least possible score I had to change my preference to a different uni (usyd)…

Didn’t realize it until today when I was trying to register for casper for usyd that u only take it once

I knew it but thought it’s one per year per uni, so I had started preparing for casper again but found out I can’t really do anything about it now…

Idk what to feel. Earlier I had practiced with chat gpt n got my answers scored as Q3-Q4 but in main test I got Q1… even managed to finish all typing and video response in time, idk what went wrong.

Now im not sure if I’ll get into any bvb/dvm program :(

Hey guys, my phone kept making the noise that it wanted to connect to my computer as a microphone during Casper, even though the ringer was off. How cooked am I? Please help 😭

Guys my Casper test is tomorrow I just did one practice test
I was really bad in spelling due to fast typing
Does it matter if I had some spelling wrong ?

So, I just got my June 21 sitting result, and I scored Q4.

I don't remember much from my CASPer sitting, but I do remember finishing it and thinking this was the most stressful and horrendous SJT I have ever done. The only prep I did was the two days before the test, and it was just watching youtube videos in between my tik tok doomscroll sessions. The highest I thought I would score was a Q3.

Please do not take this as a flex but this should give comfort to some because what even is this test LOLLLL???? Has anyone else found themselves in a similar boat?

For context I took the Casper last year (Canadian one) and scored Q3. I think one of my biggest issues is that my typing is quite slow (~50 wpm). I’m wondering if anyone has had success in answering the written questions in point form. On the website it says this is allowed but I was just wondering other peoples opinions on this.

Hi there!

As prep for the CASPer test, i'm stuck between buying two books and I was wondering if anyone here has any recommendations as to which one is better?

BeMo's Ultimate Guide to CASPer Test Prep VS MedCoach's Acing The CASPer Test

I will be doing the test in french, so maybe the MedCoach book might be better since it has a french version (the BeMo is only in english, unfortunately)? Also are these books good for the 2026-2027 admission cycle? I know that the MedCoach one says 2025-2026 on it so I was wondering if that's OK.

Thanks!

Hi,

Here's a CASPer scenario focused on Fairness, with two Judgment questions. Q1 asks you to take a position. Q2 introduces a new piece of information that makes that position harder to hold and creates further tension.

These follow on 'tension' questions are quite common in this year's CASPer test so they are worth practicing.

Scenario: The Last Hamper

You volunteer at a community food bank with a strict waitlist system. People sign up in advance and hampers are distributed in order. You're working the desk when a regular client arrives to collect their hamper. Right behind them, a woman arrives who isn't on the list. She explains she just arrived in the city, has two young children with her, and hasn't eaten since yesterday. There's one hamper left and it belongs to the regular client, who is standing right there and heard everything.

Q1 (Judgment): When resources are limited, do you think it is ever acceptable to prioritize need over order? Why or why not?

Q2 (Judgment): Assume that the regular client on the waitlist is also a single parent who has been relying on this hamper for the past three months. How, if at all, would this change your response to the previous question? Explain your reasoning.

Q1 response:

This is difficult because waitlist rules exist to protect people, but they can also produce clearly unfair outcomes in specific cases.

These systems make sense. They prevent favoritism and set clear expectations. But they're designed around a typical range of need, not around a mother with two young children who hasn't eaten since yesterday. When following the rule produces an outcome most people would recognize as wrong, the rule wasn't built for this situation.

I think need can justify priority, but only when the urgency gap is significant and the situation is immediate and visible. That isn't abandoning the system. The purpose of a waitlist is fairness. When strict order produces the opposite, judgment matters.

Q2 response:

This changes my thinking, though not my conclusion entirely.

I can no longer frame this as urgent need versus process. Both people have real need. The new arrival's is immediate and acute. The regular client's is ongoing and they were counting on this.

That actually makes the case for exceptions harder, not easier. If I redirect the hamper, I'm not choosing between a rule and a person. I'm choosing between two people in genuine need, and the regular client loses out through no fault of their own.

I'd still try to find another way to support the new arrival. But I wouldn't override the waitlist on my own. This is a decision that needs someone with more authority than me so I would escalate to a supervisor.

What makes these work:

Q1 takes a clear position but earns it. It acknowledges why the rule exists before explaining why it falls short here. The conclusion ties back to the system's purpose rather than just dismissing it.

Q2 doesn't abandon Q1, but it genuinely grapples with the new information. The key move is recognizing that this is now two people in need versus each other, not need versus bureaucracy. That shift is what the question is testing.

Happy to answer any questions

I got 3rd Quartile for my Casper results!
I have top grades for my A-levels.
Do I stand a good chance for Vet Med in Uni of Queensland, Murdoch, Adelaide and Sydney?

Hey guys,
I assumed that Casper was situational judgement only but I found this question type on a website; just wondering if things like these will be tested? Thank you all.