AAMC Situational Judgment Test
Practice Exam Booklet questions with
correct answers
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-I
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VI
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-I
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. -
VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED
ANSWER-VI
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-E
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VI
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-I
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-
E
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. - VERIFIED
ANSWER-VI
, 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. -
VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-E
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.
Meet with the group member one-on-one and ask how you can help them contribute more effectively
to the assignment. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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.
Meet with your group and evenly divide tasks across all members, making sure expectations are clear.
- VERIFIED ANSWER-E
Practice Exam Booklet questions with
correct answers
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-I
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VI
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-I
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. -
VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED
ANSWER-VI
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-E
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VI
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-I
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-
E
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. - VERIFIED
ANSWER-VI
, 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. -
VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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. - VERIFIED ANSWER-E
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.
Meet with the group member one-on-one and ask how you can help them contribute more effectively
to the assignment. - VERIFIED ANSWER-VE
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.
Meet with your group and evenly divide tasks across all members, making sure expectations are clear.
- VERIFIED ANSWER-E
