SEPPO EPPP Practice Exam: What ASPPB's $30 Sample Exam Is, and Isn't

If you searched "SEPPO EPPP practice exam", here is the short version. SEPPO (officially SEPPPO, the Sample Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology Online) is ASPPB's own practice exam for the EPPP. It costs $30 per attempt online, or $82.50 per attempt at a Pearson VUE test center, where it is called the SEPPP. It has 100 questions drawn from retired EPPP items, it is timed at 2 hours online, and it gives you a single percent-correct score with no breakdown of what you missed. You can only buy it after your licensing board has authorized you to sit the EPPP.

That makes it the one practice exam built from real EPPP questions. It also makes it the one practice exam ASPPB tells you not to use as a diagnostic. From the EPPP Candidate Handbook: "they are not recommended for Candidates to use sample exams to assess areas where additional study might be needed. Rather, they allow Candidates to take exams that are similar in test specifications to either the Knowledge or Skills part of the EPPP."

Read that twice. The exam maker is saying: use this to rehearse the format, not to find your gaps. This post covers what SEPPO is good for, what it will not do, and when in your study plan it earns its $30.

SEPPO at a glance

All facts below are from ASPPB's sample exam page and the EPPP Candidate Handbook (July 2025 edition) unless noted.

	SEPPPO (online)	SEPPP (Pearson VUE test center)
Price	$30 per attempt, plus tax, non-refundable	$82.50 per attempt, plus tax, includes the test-site appointment fee
Questions	100 (Part 1, Knowledge)	100 (Part 1, Knowledge)
Time	2 hours total, across all sittings	Real-world testing conditions; a separate time limit is not stated in the handbook
Forms	Two forms. A third attempt in the same mode repeats one	Same two forms
Items	Retired or unused EPPP items, prepared like live items	Same
Score report	Percent correct only. "The score report does not provide detailed information on missed items"	Same
Who can buy	Candidates authorized by their licensing authority, through the My Testing section of their Certemy account	Same
Repeat purchases	Allowed, multiple times	Allowed

Pearson's page now calls itself Pearson Professional Assessments (formerly Pearson VUE). ASPPB's materials still say Pearson VUE, so that is the name used here.

One deadline to confirm before you buy. The handbook says you forfeit the $30 if you do not complete the online exam within 90 days, and that once you start, the exam must be finished within 168 hours (one week). Pearson's ASPPB practice page says online sample exams must be taken within 2 years of purchase. Those two statements do not obviously agree, so check the current rule in your Certemy account before paying. For the test-center version, Pearson lists a $43.75 fee for rescheduling inside 31 days and no rescheduling inside 24 hours.

There is also a Part 2 (Skills) version with 65 items. Since ASPPB paused the Part 2 requirement in October 2024, no board requires that exam today, and the Part 1 sample is the one that matters. Background in EPPP vs EPPP Part 2.

What SEPPO is good for

Real item wording. Every other practice exam, including ours, is written by people imitating the EPPP. SEPPO is the EPPP, minus the items ASPPB no longer uses. Candidates on Student Doctor Network and Reddit tend to describe it as the closest thing to the real exam's phrasing (threads in Sources; these are forum reports, not data). If you have only ever seen a prep company's questions, 100 real ones recalibrate your sense of how the exam actually asks things.

A format rehearsal. The real EPPP is 225 questions in 4 hours and 15 minutes (format details). SEPPO is under half that, so it is not a stamina test, but it runs on the same delivery software. The test-center version adds the check-in, the ID rules, the palm vein scan, and the no-personal-items rule, which is worth $82.50 if test-day logistics are what spike your anxiety.

A calibration point. One percent score, taken two to four weeks out, tells you whether your prep-program practice scores are in the same neighborhood as real items. That is useful. It is not a study plan.

What SEPPO will not do

It will not tell you where you are weak. You get one number. No domain breakdown, no list of missed items, no explanations. A 68% could be evenly spread or could be two domains cratering, and SEPPO cannot tell you which. That is why ASPPB says not to use it to find "areas where additional study might be needed".

It will not predict your result. The handbook is blunt: "No representation is made that performance on the sample exams is a valid indicator of performance on any future licensing examination". Retired items are retired for a reason, and 100 items is a small sample.

It will not teach you anything. With no rationales, a wrong answer stays a wrong answer unless you go look it up yourself. Testing yourself and then processing feedback is the part of practice that moves scores (why practice tests work). SEPPO gives you the test without the feedback.

Where SEPPO fits in a study plan

1. Start with free questions that come with rationales. Learn the item style and get some misses explained before you pay anyone. Our free EPPP practice questions do that, and the blog version groups 50 of them by domain with the ASPPB weights.
2. Take a diagnostic that scores you by domain. This is the step SEPPO cannot replace. A domain-level score report is the study plan. Inside thePsychology.ai the diagnostic is the first thing you get in the 7-day free trial, no card. Any program that reports by domain will do; what matters is that you get the breakdown.
3. Study to the breakdown. Weakest high-weight domains first.
4. Take SEPPO two to four weeks out. Timed, one sitting, as a dress rehearsal with real wording. Take the test-center version if the room itself is your problem.
5. Do not over-read the number. If it lands near your recent practice scores, your prep is calibrated. If it lands far below, spend a day looking up every item you were unsure about, and take that as a wording problem to fix, not a verdict.

SEPPO vs a prep program's practice exams

	SEPPO	Prep-program practice exams
Item source	Retired real EPPP items	Written to imitate the EPPP
Length	100 items, 2 hours	Often full length (225 items)
Score report	Percent correct only	Usually by domain, sometimes by sub-domain
Explanations	None	Yes, in every serious program
Cost	$30 per attempt	Included in the subscription
Best use	Wording rehearsal and calibration	Diagnosis, learning, and stamina

These are complements, not rivals. The program is where you learn and find gaps. SEPPO is where you check that what you learned survives contact with real items. thePsychology.ai is $60 a month after the 7-day trial, or $349 a year (verified on our homepage today), and every practice item comes with a rationale and a domain score. Our comparison of the paid options is in EPPP prep programs compared.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does SEPPO stand for?

Sample Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology Online. ASPPB writes it SEPPPO. Candidates drop a P and say SEPPO. The test-center version is the SEPPP.

How many questions is the SEPPO and how long is it?

100 questions for the Part 1 (Knowledge) sample, with 2 hours of total testing time online. If you pause, the clock keeps running. If you exit the browser, you have one week to come back and finish.

Is the SEPPO harder than the real EPPP?

There is no published answer. The items are real but retired, the sample is 100 questions, and ASPPB makes no claim that the score predicts anything. Forum reports run both ways. Treat it as a wording check, not a difficulty benchmark.

What score should I get on the SEPPO?

ASPPB publishes no target. The real EPPP passes at a scaled score of 500, which works out to roughly 70% correct on the live form (how the EPPP is scored), but a percent on 100 retired items is not the same scale. Use it for calibration against your own practice scores, not against 70%.

Can I take the SEPPO more than once?

Yes. ASPPB sells it per attempt, and there are two forms for Part 1, so the third attempt in the same delivery mode repeats a form you have seen. If you take it once online and once at a center, the handbook warns the form may repeat on the second administration.

Is there a free EPPP practice test from ASPPB?

No. The sample exams are paid, $30 online. For free questions with explanations, start with our free EPPP practice questions and the free practice test guide.

Sources

• ASPPB, EPPP Sample Exams (SEPPP and SEPPPO, pricing, eligibility, forms): https://asppb.net/exams/asppb-examination-for-professional-psychology-eppp/eppp-sample-exams/
• ASPPB, EPPP Candidate Handbook, July 2025 (sample exam item counts, timing, score report, forfeiture, fee summary): https://asppb.net/wp-content/uploads/EPPP-Candidate-Handbook_7.8.25.pdf
• Pearson VUE, ASPPB (EPPP) Practice Exams (scheduling, reschedule fee, 2-year window): https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/asppb/practice.html
• California Board of Psychology, EPPP Part 2 status (Part 2 requirement paused): https://www.psychology.ca.gov/applicants/eppp_2.shtml
• Student Doctor Network, "Best Companies with EPPP Practice Tests?" (forum reports on SEPPO wording): https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/best-companies-with-eppp-practice-tests.1514579/
• Reddit r/AcademicPsychology, "EPPP practice test scores" (forum reports on SEPPO): https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPsychology/comments/18usqgm/eppp_practice_test_scores/