Thursday, February 16, 2012

Korson Certification in Philosophy

The Korson Certification Exam in Philosophy will be available at testing centers worldwide beginning January 2014. It will be a three-hour 500-question exam composed at the time of the exam from a pool of over 5000 questions. By contrast, the Graduate Record Examination Advanced Philosophy Test was also a three-hour exam, with approximately 150 questions. I do not know the size of the question pool, only that the ARCO exam preparation book used four sample tests with 150 questions each, for a total of 600 questions.

Cost of the exam will be $200. Certification will be good for 5 years, and will be awarded only if the candidate achieves a perfect score. The exam will be repeatable once every 6 months.

Want to be Korson Certified in Philosophy? Perfect practice is perfect performance. Now go outline some arguments in a book or journal.