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Post by mypineappledream on Mar 18, 2016 0:02:49 GMT
Anyone done a qb test as part of your assessment?
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Post by merrial on Mar 18, 2016 10:30:23 GMT
Hi i don't know what a qb test is..can you explain it to me? I had several tests before finally being diagnosed with ADHD. May have had this one not sure. Probably wasn't being attentive the 3 hours & 20 mins was hard going and I was only allowed to go out once for a 5 min break during the assessment
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Post by mypineappledream on Mar 18, 2016 12:38:50 GMT
Its a computer test where you have a sensor strapped to your forehead that monitor movement as you do/watch a boring thing on the screen.
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:10:22 GMT
Hi mypineappledream. I did one of these a few months ago when I had my assessment. I was a bit shocked when they told me it was going to be 25 minutes long, but it went weirdly quickly. I scored terribly (?), and was quite anxious, so was much more physically hyperactive than usual (which I'm not ordinarily, just a bit fidgety.) Why do you ask? Have you just had one, or coming up to having one?
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:11:54 GMT
merrial – My assessors weren't nearly so strict. I had about five breaks. I built the whole thing up a bit much in my head, i think. But it was such a long wait to get to the day itself.
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Post by mypineappledream on Mar 18, 2016 14:14:49 GMT
Just had one and i thought the situation is so forced I Wonder if the reading is reliable. It was strange, and the 20 minutes was torture. Apparently this is a quite new method to be used.
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Post by mypineappledream on Mar 18, 2016 14:15:49 GMT
Wait you have all assessments the same day?
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:26:54 GMT
I did, yes. Questionnaires up front. I was on my own (with three psychiatrists). It was NHS. It was regular questionnaire, plus long interview and the computer thing. Took about three hours all in. I walked away without a medical diagnosis, although I scored extremely highly on inattentiveness. I had sent a letter up front stating that I wasn't there for medication, so that might have been part of the reason. They also put a lot of my heightened symptoms down to life events, Mostly it seemed to me though that they made their decision on the fact that I have no points on my driving licence and never got in trouble at school. And I'm not particularly impulsive or physically hyperactive. Blah blah blah. : )
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:28:16 GMT
Did you have the one with the shapes and colours? So what happens next for you? More assessment dates?
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Post by mypineappledream on Mar 18, 2016 18:27:06 GMT
Yeah shapes and colors, thats the one! I moved after starting to queue so they put me in a new queue in my new city, here they told me they were trying to hurry up my assessment by squeezing me in whenever. But to be honest I think they keep forgetting me, I have about 2 and 3 meetings/test days left before diagnosis. It shouldn't be that hard to schedule me in I think. Thats what you get for trying so hard on your own I guess.
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Qb test
Mar 19, 2016 8:31:01 GMT
via mobile
Post by alien on Mar 19, 2016 8:31:01 GMT
Best of luck with it. It all sounds terribly drawn out.
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Post by merrial on Mar 19, 2016 17:45:47 GMT
Hi Mypineappledream & Alien, in that case no I did not have the qb test..but it seems that everyone seems to have different types of testing done.
It all seems a bit randomly done. And I agree it's such a lengthy process to get to the tests in the first place. The anxiety levels go up majorly during testing
and lets face it, it is not exactly like any other day being put into these weird situations with psychiatrists. I really felt like saying something rude!!
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