I. Your Scheduling Permit

Once your application has been reviewed and you have been accepted to sit for the exam, you will receive an orange Scheduling Permit with instructions and the phone number for making an appointment at a Prometric, Inc.® test center. The Orange Scheduling Permit will be mailed to you no later than August 30, 2008. You must bring your Scheduling Permit and an unexpired, government-issued form of identification (such as a driver’s license or passport) that includes both your photograph and signature to the testing center on your examination day. If your identification contains your photograph and not your signature, you can use another form of unexpired identification that contains your signature, such as an employee identification card or a credit card, to supplement your photo-bearing, government-issued identification. The first and last names on your identification must exactly match the names on your permit. The only acceptable difference would be the presence of a middle name, middle initial or suffix on one document and its absence on the other. Please contact the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Certification Department immediately at 301-656-3920 if the name on your permit is misspelled or differs from your name as it appears on your identification. Name changes or corrections cannot be made within 7 business days of your scheduled testing appointment.

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II. Sheduling your test date

You must have your Scheduling Permit before you contact Prometric to schedule a testing appointment. You should contact Prometric as soon as you receive the permit. Prometric schedules testing appointments on a first-come, first-served basis. The sooner you schedule your ppointment, the more likely you will receive your preferred test time and location. When you call to schedule your examination appointment you will be asked to provide the program code, exam code and scheduling number which will be located in the box at the top of the permit. Prometric will provide you with the test center location and telephone number. Please call the test center for directions. Confirm your testing center location one week before your appointment via Prometric’s website or by contacting Prometric at the telephone number listed on your permit. Your examination date will be December 6, 2008.

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Test Centers and Testing Conditions
Prometric provides computer-based testing services for academic assessment, professional licensure, and certification. Prometric testing centers are set up similarly. This not only helps enhance security, but also provides the same standards for comfort and uniformity for all examinees. Prometric testing centers provide the resources necessary for secure administration of the examination, including video and audio monitoring and recording, and use of digital cameras to record the identity of examinees.

Admission to the Test
You should arrive at the Prometric test center 30 minutes before your scheduled testing time on your testing date. If you arrive late, you may not be admitted. If you arrive more than 30 minutes after your scheduled testing time, you will not be admitted. On arrival, you are required to sign in on the test center log and to present your Scheduling Permit plus one form of unexpired, government-
issued identification (such as a driver’s license or passport) that includes both your photograph and signature, after which, a digital photograph will be taken. All of your personal belongings, food and beverages must be placed in a small, designated locker outside the testing room. Pagers and cellular telephones must be turned off before placing them in the locker.

Testing Regulations and Rules of Conduct
Test center staff monitors all testing sessions for the examination. You must follow instructions of test center staff throughout the examination. Failure to do so may result in a determination of irregular behavior. Test center staff are not authorized to answer questions from candidates regarding examination content, testing software, or scoring. If staff observes you violating test administration rules or engaging in other forms of irregular behavior during the examination, the
center staff will not necessarily tell you of the observation at the time of the examination. You may not bring any personal belongings into the testing area.

Completing the Test
After you start taking an examination, the examination cannot be canceled or rescheduled unless a technical problem requires rescheduling. If a computer problem occurs during the test, you should notify test center staff immediately. In the rare event of a technical problem, testing software is designed to allow the test to restart at the point it was interrupted. In most cases, the test can
be restarted at the point of interruption with no loss of testing time. However, it is possible that a technical problem may occur that requires the test to be rescheduled. In that event, you will be allowed to test at a later date at no additional cost.

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