Just started my ISSA Certification and had a few questions

soccerpro6 · 01-02-2009, 06:53 AM

Hey guys,

Just started my ISSA CFT certification yesterday! I just had a few questions for anyone that has any experience with the program:

1) I Know now you have to submit 66% of the online quizes before you have access to your final exam. Do you have to score a certain way on these quizes for them to count, our is it simply getting in the 66% of them, regardless of what your score is on them?

2) What did you find to be the best way to study? I have always read through the chapters, then gone back through and taken notes on all the major topics and bold face terms ect, then quiz myself over the material and review anyting I had problems on. Anyone have a lot of success with any other ways with the ISSA or any thoughts about how I do it? I don't think I will be "over-Studying" if there is such a thing, but just wanted to make sure.

3) Are the unit quizes multiple choice, essay or other and is the information usually covered essentially out of the text or is it more of a thinking outside the box type thing?

Thanks for the info! Any other input, advice or thoughts about the program I am doing would be appreciated!

Thanks guys
Kyle

SusanBeth · 01-02-2009, 07:12 AM

Hey Kyle,
I just passed my ISSA certification last November. I believe you have to score at least a 75% on the quizzes, but you can retake them anytime you want. And you can use your book - so really it's not too bad. I would actually print them out and after I finished a chapter, I would take it and answer as many as I could that I absolutely knew. Then I would go back and look up the ones I wasn't sure of. Then I would take it on the computer. The questions were multiple choice or T/F. As far as study methods - whatever works best for you. The workbook is a great asset so make sure you use it too.

Best of luck!
Susan

dasixthsun · 01-02-2009, 08:47 AM

the workbook really helps out a lot but i took it before you had to do the quizzes

soccerpro6 · 01-02-2009, 11:08 AM

Thanks guys! I appreciate the help. So you can retake the unit quizes if you want? I have already learned alot just from the first unit!

trainer89 · 01-02-2009, 04:33 PM

i got certified in september last year. i didnt take the quizes but the study guide really helped me to perpare for the final exam. i also read the book again so that really helped.

atx1975 · 01-02-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by soccerpro6

Thanks guys! I appreciate the help. So you can retake the unit quizes if you want? I have already learned alot just from the first unit!

I just passed the ISSA-CFT today, the approach I used was reading a chapter while working out the workbook and then taking the quiz at the end of each chapter. If I failed a question I would go back through the chapter and figure out why what I choose was wrong and what the correct answer was. Good Luck you will learn alot. If you have any questions just ask.

soccerpro6 · 01-03-2009, 06:17 AM

Thanks for the help and congrats on passing your final! I am almost through the first unit, I finished the metabolism section and aced that quiz so now that I have one done I feel better about it. I am really excited!

Thanks again for all the help guys

Donica · 01-03-2009, 08:29 PM

I passed the ISSA CFT final exam last year, but since I signed on to the program before it was 'mandatory', I had the option of taking or not taking the section quizzes--I actually took the quizzes the weekend before I turned in my final, though, I figured "Why not?" and reasoned they'd give me an idea of my general knowledge. (As in, if I failed them all then I shouldn't hand in my final!

) But I passed them all and passed my final, so it was really all just nervousness on my part...

I personally did not use the workbook. Other ISSA certs require that you HAND IN the workbook with your final, but the CFT cert is more lenient in that respect. Nevertheless, for the first few chapters on the human body, which I had never studied specifically in school (at least, I can't remember doing so), I kept a college-ruled notebook and highlighted the text that I thought was important, then recopied it into my notebook--double whammy for memory retention. I made flash cards of all of the definitions and etc. in the textbook margins and quizzed myself regularly. Later on, once I got into the 'program development' sections and whatnot, I basically just read the text, and then reread what I thought I needed to, and didn't take as many notes. The course builds upon itself, and if you pay attention and really think about everything after you've read it, my experience is that you can retain a lot and reason out things if you use your common sense. CFTs and PTs are thinkers as much as doers, and that's a lot of what you have to prove on the final.

Oh, and I don't want to forget to mention this: even if you take the final online, I'd highly recommend attending one of the seminars. I learned a ton of hands-on and practical stuff there that was only brushed over in the text and in the other books.