NLP PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION

HOME STUDY PROGRAMME TEST

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Please bring this completed test to the NLP Practitioner

Certification on the 1st day of the training course. It is an
open book test so you may refer to your manual, books and
cd’s in order to answer all questions.

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1. What is Neuro Linguistic Programming?
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2. List your six favourite Presuppositions of NLP and explain

why each is important to you.

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3. What is the Law of Requisite Variety?
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4. List your 6 favourite Characteristics of the Unconscious

Mind and explain why they are your favourite.

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5. Which of the following descriptions are sensory based (S)
and which are hallucinations (H)?

She was angry. ___

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His eyes narrowed and the corners of his mouth turned

up slightly. (H)
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He winced. (H)
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She looked happy. (H)

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His face flushed. (H)

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She looked guilty. ___

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He was short of breath. (H)

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Her pupils were tiny. (H)

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6. What is Rapport?
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7. List five things to Match in getting Rapport.

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8. What is Cross Over Matching?

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9. What are the six things you can Calibrate on in someone’s
physiology?

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10. Define voice tone, tempo, timbre and origin?

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 11. What is meant by Preferred Representational System, and
how do you detect it?
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12. What is meant by Lead or Primary Representational

System, and how do you detect it?
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13. For each of the following predicates, identify whether

they are visual (V), auditory tonal (At), kinaesthetic (K),
olfactory (O), gustatory (G) or audio digital (Ad).

(Ad)__Rancid (Ad)__Hot (Ad)__Hard (Ad)__Look

(Ad)__View (Ad)__Listen
(Ad)__Delicious (Ad)__Recall
(Ad)__Spy (Ad)__Sense (Ad)__Intuit (Ad)__Savour
(Ad)__Pensive (Ad)__Opinion (Ad)__Say (Ad)__Interrogate
(Ad)__Stress (Ad)__Rotten (Ad)__Pull (Ad)__Surprising
(Ad)__Observe (Ad)__Mute (Ad)__Melody (Ad)__Soft
(Ad)__Hurt (Ad)__Energise (Ad)__Sour (Ad)__Outstanding

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14. Translate the following sentences into a different
representational system.

Things are looking up.

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The silence was deafening.

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I am so motivated!
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I could hear the enthusiasm in his voice.

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She just couldn’t see what they were talking about.

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His harsh comments left a bitter taste in his mouth.

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Always look on the bright side!

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15. Describe the process of Overlapping Representational

Systems and describe when you would use it.

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16. Draw the Eye Patterns of a normally organized person.

17. What are the Well Formed Outcome Conditions?

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18. When would you use them Well Formed Outcome

Conditions?
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19. Create an example of each of the following Milton
Model Patterns:
Mind Reading –

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Conversational Postulate –
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Cause and Effect –

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Selection Restriction Violation –

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Ambiguities –
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20. What is the “Meta Model”?

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21. What are the three processes of internalising on which

the Meta Model is based?
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22. Identify the Meta Model violations in each of the

following sentences and indicate what the appropriate
Meta Model challenge would be.
She makes me so angry.
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Making lots of money is wrong.
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That was a bad relationship.
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Everybody says so.

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Brian loves me.

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Barbara doesn’t trust me.
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I’m sad.
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I should work harder.
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 23. What is a “pattern interrupt” and when is it useful?
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24. What is the difference between association and

dissociation, and when is each useful?
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25. If you see yourself in the picture, are you associated

or dissociated?
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26. List six visual and six kinaesthetic and six auditory
Submodalities.
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 27. What is a driver in Submodalities and how do you
discover them?
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28. Explain Contrastive Analysis and Mapping Across.

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29. When would you use a SWISH Pattern?

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30. What is a Phobia?

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31. Describe how to remove a Phobia.

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32. What is the relationship between values and beliefs?

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 33. What is “state” and why is it important?
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34. Define an Anchor?

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35. What are the Five Keys to Anchoring?

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36. Describe the process of creating an Anchor.

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37. Describe the process of Collapse Anchors and tell

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 38. Describe the process of Chaining Anchors and tell
when you would use it.
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39. What are the criteria for designing a Chain of Anchors?

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40. Describe the Change Personal History Process and

explain when you would use this technique?
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41. What is a Strategy?

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42. What are the steps in eliciting a Strategy?

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 43. Define and explain the TOTE Model.
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44. What is a Reframe and when is it useful?

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45. What is the difference between a “Context” and

”Meaning” Reframe?
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46. What are the key steps in a 6 Step Reframe?

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47. What are the characteristics of a Part?

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48. When would you do a Parts Integration?

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 49. Describe the Perceptual Positions Process?
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50. What is the Agreement Frame and when would you use
it?
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51. How would you use NLP in Negotiation?

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52. How would you use NLP in Sales?

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