The last two weeks before the EPPP have one job: protect what you built. Not add to it. If you have been studying for months, you are in the maintenance stage now, and maintenance has different rules than acquisition. Cramming in week 15 is how people arrive at the exam tired, rattled, and slightly worse than they were ten days earlier.

Here is the whole fortnight on one page.

14 to 8 days remaining: last full-length, then surgical review

• Take your final full-length practice exam early in this window, timed, one sitting, real conditions. Not in the last week. You need days to absorb what it tells you, and you do not need a fresh scare four days before test day.
• Review it by domain, not by feeling. Sort misses into knowledge gaps versus process errors (misreads, second-guessing, time pressure). Only the top two or three genuine gaps get study time now. Everything else is noise this close to the exam.
• Keep the daily question habit, lighter. Twenty to thirty mixed questions a day maintains retrieval strength without burning you down. The habit is the asset. You are maintaining it, not growing it.

One warning about this window: it is completely normal for practice scores to wobble or even dip right before the exam, and it panics people who have been steady for months. Before you rewrite your whole plan over one bad set, read why practice scores drop before the EPPP. The dip is usually fatigue and sampling noise, not decay.

7 to 2 days remaining: taper like an athlete

Nothing new enters the building this week. No new content, no new question bank, no new strategy video from someone confident on the internet. Novelty this late converts calm into doubt at a terrible exchange rate.

• Light mixed quizzes daily, well under an hour. You are keeping the engine warm, not racing.
• Sleep is the intervention now. You are the psychologist, I will not lecture you on consolidation (Walker & Stickgold, 2006). I will just say that one protected week of real sleep beats forty extra flashcards, and it is not close.
• Rehearse the day, not the content. Confirm the Pearson VUE appointment, the ID rules, the route, the parking, the snack. Every logistic you settle in advance is one less cortisol spike on the morning.
• If anxiety is the loudest domain, the tools that actually work under exam pressure are in EPPP test anxiety. Practice the reset you plan to use, once a day, so it is automatic when you want it.

1 day remaining and exam morning

The day before: one short warm-up set in the morning if it steadies you, then stop by noon. The evening is for food, logistics, and anything that is not the EPPP. You will feel the pull to do one more set at 9 PM. That pull is anxiety wearing a productivity costume. You have months of evidence that you prepared. One more set at 9 PM adds none.

Exam morning: normal breakfast, arrive early, expect the first ten questions to feel strange. They always do, to everyone, and it means nothing. Your pacing plan and your practice habits take over from there. Trust the 12 weeks, not the last 12 hours. If you want the full week-by-week arc that leads into this taper, it is in the 12-week postdoc study plan.

Frequently asked questions

Should I study the day before the EPPP? At most a short, easy warm-up in the morning, then stop. The day before is for sleep and logistics. There is no content you can add in 24 hours that outweighs arriving rested.

Is it normal for practice scores to drop right before the exam? Yes, common and usually meaningless. Late-stage dips are typically fatigue and normal variation. Change your sleep before you change your plan.

How many practice questions should I do in the final week? A light daily set, roughly 20 to 30 mixed questions, to keep retrieval sharp. The final week maintains, it does not build.

What should I bring on EPPP exam day? Follow the ID and admission rules in your Pearson VUE confirmation exactly, plan your arrival with slack, and treat food, water, and the route as part of the plan. Logistics you settle early are anxiety you never feel.

Keep the engine warm through test day

If you want your final-stretch practice to match the real thing, the full-length exams and daily mixed sets are all in thePsychology.ai, free for 7 days. Questions worded the way the EPPP words them, so the last two weeks confirm what you know instead of surprising you. Walk in maintained, not crammed.

Sources

• ASPPB EPPP overview: https://asppb.net/exams/asppb-examination-for-professional-psychology-eppp/
• Walker, M. P., & Stickgold, R. (2006). Sleep, memory, and plasticity. Annual Review of Psychology: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070307