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The Clinical Blueprint — a reasoning engine for the NPE
Ethics, assessment, interventions and communication under uncertainty, as slides.
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A$499 incl. Australian GST · 12 months access
National Psychology Exam
Study all four official domains
Prepare for the NPE with domain lessons, case vignettes and practice questions. Choose a four-week or one-week study plan. Written by a registered Australian psychologist.
✓ incl. Australian GST✓ 12 months access✓ Not a subscription✓ 14-day refund if under 20% opened
Covers all four domains: Ethics, Assessment, Interventions, Communication. Includes the NPE Apex practice tools at no extra cost.
Authored by a registered psychologist (AHPRA) · Independent educational resource · Not affiliated with AHPRA, the Psychology Board of Australia, or any university
Four domains, one path through them
Start with a baseline to find your weakest domain, study each domain in turn, then bring them together in cross-domain cases and exam-condition papers.
106lessons in 7 stages
Foundations
How the exam thinks — orientation before content.
- Orientation
- 1 lesson
Baseline diagnostic
Find your weakest domain before you study.
- Baseline Diagnostic
- 2 lessons
The four domains
Ethics, assessment, interventions, communication — the official blueprint, at study-guide depth.
- Domain 1 · Ethics
- Domain 2 · Assessment
- Domain 3 · Interventions
- Domain 4 · Communication
- 19 lessons
Workshops & reasoning drills
OSCE-depth interactive decision drills per domain, plus the assessment reasoning workouts.
- Ethics · Decision Workshop
- Assessment · Reasoning Workshop
- Interventions · Selection Workshop
- Communication · Practice Workshop
- Assessment-domain reasoning workouts
- Drill Bank · Extended MCQs
- 38 lessons
Applied, exam-condition & consolidation
Cross-domain cases, exam-condition mini-papers, and the final sweep.
- Applied Practice
- Applied Cross-Domain Cases
- Exam-Condition Mini-Papers
- Consolidation & Mastery
- Consolidation · Master Sweep
- 18 lessons
Extended question bank
Additional single-best-answer drills across the four domains, with a worked rationale for every option.
- Question Bank — Extended Drills
- 22 lessons
Extended Drills
Extra drills mapped to the exam assessment blueprint — optional.
- Extended Drills
- 6 lessons
The four official NPE domains
Study Ethics, Assessment, Interventions and Communication with dedicated practice in each domain.
What's in the program
See six parts of the program.
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Domain-by-domain study modules
Study the knowledge and application principles in each of the four NPE domains.
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Application question bank
Practise with vignette-based questions. See why each answer is right or wrong.
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Ethics and standards reference
Apply the Code of Ethics and professional standards to worked examples.
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Integrated case vignettes
Work through cases that bring assessment, intervention and ethics together.
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4-week calendar + 1-week intensive
Choose a four-week calendar or a one-week intensive. Both include spaced revision.
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Fast-reference summary sheets
Print one-page domain summaries for final revision.
A look inside
See the actual pages
Preview the dashboard, lessons, checkpoints, timed exams.
Read it, hear it, watch it
One real sample of each format — opened or played here, nothing gated. Each card says where it comes from.
Worksheet
NPE reasoning — practice worksheet
Ten short-answer questions across the four exam domains, ruled for writing, answer key on the last page.
Poster
The NPE Reasoning Blueprint
The four exam domains and their pivot questions on one landscape sheet.
Explainer audio
Audio overview — professional reasoning
How psychologists make defensible high-stakes decisions.
Auto-generated captions (machine transcript, not yet human-checked). Below the player and in full screen.
Explainer video
Video overview — anatomy of a decision
A visual walkthrough of structured professional reasoning.
Auto-generated captions (machine transcript, not yet human-checked). Below the player and in full screen.
Why this, and why now
You are buying a plan mapped to the four NPE domains, and the practice to show you where you stand.
The software keeps the plan, the timer and your error log. What you are paying for is study hours pointed at the domain that needs them, and exam-style judgement rehearsed until it is familiar.
Who it is for
- Provisional psychologists with the National Psychology Exam ahead
- Graduates who know the theory and need exam-style decisions
- Anyone resitting who wants to see which domain let them down
What it takes off your plate
- Not knowing which of the four domains is weakest until the exam tells you
- Reading widely without ever rehearsing a single exam-style decision
- Studying around supervised practice hours with no plan for the week
The journey inside
- Find your weak domain
A short baseline quiz points your first study hours at the domain that needs them most.
- Study each domain
Ethics, Assessment, Interventions and Communication, across 19 modules, each lesson ending in a recall check.
- Integrate
Cross-domain cases make you hold ethics, assessment and intervention in one scenario, the way the exam does.
- Rehearse the sitting
Timed mini-papers that hold the feedback until you submit, as the exam does. Each is shorter than the real sitting.
- Final week
Print-ready summary sheets and an error-log routine for the last days.
- Mapped to the four official NPE domains
- 7 stages · 19 modules · 106 lessons
- 59 graded checkpoints
- A 4-week plan and a 1-week intensive
Honest answers to the usual doubts
I will start later.
The test drive stays open, so later can start with the first module today. The plans assume four weeks around supervised practice hours, or one intensive week. The later you begin, the fewer passes you get at your weakest domain.
I can just use ChatGPT.
A chat model is a good study partner, and the samples below come with a prompt so you can try exactly that. What it does not give you by default is a syllabus in a set order, checkpoints with a pass mark, or a log of the topics you found hardest. The course carries that part, so your AI time goes on practice rather than planning.
It is too expensive.
A$499 incl. Australian GST once for 12 months, not a subscription, and 14-day refund if under 20% opened. Walk the real first module free before you decide.
I am not sure it fits me.
The baseline quiz is the quickest test: if it shows you nothing new about your domains, you have your answer. This is independent study material; the Psychology Board’s own materials stay the authority on the exam.
Take a sample into your own AI
Open the sample, copy the prompt, and give both to the AI model you already use. It is a fair way to see how the material works before you commit to anything.
I am preparing for Australia's National Psychology Exam. I have attached an NPE reasoning practice worksheet from the Mindspan NPE program. It is one page from a course of 19 modules across the four exam domains, so use it as a warm-up, not a full assessment.
Please:
1. Work through the worksheet with me one item at a time. Let me answer before you comment.
2. For each answer, name the exam domain it draws on (Ethics, Assessment, Interventions or Communication) and what a stronger answer would add.
3. Track which domain gives me the most trouble.
4. Finish with a short plan for my next three study sessions, weakest domain first.
Stick to general education and say when you are unsure. The Psychology Board of Australia's materials are the authority on the exam itself.A sample is one step. The course carries it through 19 modules and 106 lessons, with checkpoints that remember where you got to.
Independent educational resource by a registered psychologist. Not affiliated with AHPRA, the Psychology Board of Australia, the APS or any university. Study aid only: no result is promised.
Pricing
A$499 · incl. Australian GST · 12 months access
Watch the free NPE walkthrough, then study with us live
Episode 1 goes live Wed 28 Oct, 7 pm AEDT. Then join the free live study session, Thu 5 Nov, 7:30 pm AEDT: a registered psychologist walks through the four NPE domains, one at a time. Online, 60 minutes, bring your questions.
- The session joining link, by email
- A 12-question baseline that shows your weakest domain, free in the test drive
- Then, if it suits you: 697 explained questions in the full program (including the free ones), across 19 modules
The course at a glance
- Modules
- 19
- Lessons
- 106
- Checkpoints
- 59
- Time to complete
- about 27 hours
Your progress path
Modules unlock in order, each lesson ends with a short consolidation, and your progress saves as you go — the dashboard shows where you are and resumes where you stopped.
- Module 1: Orientation
- Module 2: Baseline Diagnostic
- Module 3: Domain 1 · Ethics
- Module 4: Domain 2 · Assessment
- Module 5: Domain 3 · Interventions
- Module 6: Domain 4 · Communication
- Module 7: Ethics · Decision Workshop
- Module 8: Assessment · Reasoning Workshop
- Module 9: Interventions · Selection Workshop
- Module 10: Communication · Practice Workshop
- Module 11: Assessment-domain reasoning workouts
- Module 12: Drill Bank · Extended MCQs
- Module 13: Applied Practice
- Module 14: Applied Cross-Domain Cases
- Module 15: Exam-Condition Mini-Papers
- Module 16: Consolidation & Mastery
- Module 17: Consolidation · Master Sweep
- Module 18: Question Bank — Extended Drills
- Module 19: Extended Drills
What’s inside
- Orientation1 lesson
- Baseline Diagnostic2 lessons
- Domain 1 · Ethics4 lessons
- Domain 2 · Assessment6 lessons
- Domain 3 · Interventions5 lessons
- Domain 4 · Communication4 lessons
- Ethics · Decision Workshop8 lessons
- Assessment · Reasoning Workshop8 lessons
- Interventions · Selection Workshop8 lessons
- Communication · Practice Workshop8 lessons
…and 9 more modules.
What you will practise
- Read your per-domain result
- Locate the ethics domain inside the four-domain exam blueprint — 45 of the 150 questions
- Locate assessment inside the four-domain examination blueprint and state what it tests
- Locate the interventions domain inside the four-domain examination blueprint
- Locate communication inside the four-domain examination blueprint and name its sub-territories
- Sharpen diagnostic discrimination for assessment-domain items
Free test drive
Walk the real course dashboard and its opening lessons before you pay — no card needed.
Common questions
What is the NPE?
The National Psychology Exam is a written exam required for general registration under the 5+1 internship pathway. Provisional psychologists on this pathway must pass it to gain general registration.
Who is this program for?
Provisional psychologists in the 5+1 pathway preparing for the NPE. It is not designed for the 4+2 pathway.
How do the lessons and questions work together?
This program brings the four domains together in case vignettes. Each question explains the correct answer and the distractors.
How much does it cost?
A$499 incl. Australian GST. 12 months access. One-time payment, not a subscription.
Is this affiliated with AHPRA or the Psychology Board of Australia?
No. This is an independent educational resource. The Psychology Board of Australia's official exam specifications and preparation advice remain the authoritative source for NPE requirements.
Can I use this alongside the OSCE program?
Yes. The OSCE and NPE programs are separate. Both cover assessment, ethics and intervention in their respective exam formats.
What if the price drops after I buy?
If you bought a program in the 30 days before we introduced a bundle or a lower price, ask us and we'll refund the difference or apply it to an upgrade. Ask from My Mindspan (/account/refund) or email info@mindspan.com.au.
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Educational use only. This program is an independent educational resource authored by a registered psychologist. It is not affiliated with AHPRA, the Psychology Board of Australia, or any university. These materials are not official exam guidance and are not a substitute for clinical supervision, mandated training, or professional development requirements. The Psychology Board of Australia's official materials remain the authoritative source for NPE requirements and domain specifications. See our Disclaimer, EULA, and Terms of Service.