Best free resources for ABCN prep in 2026 — compiled list

The official candidate guide is something a lot of people skip but it literally tells you the topic weighting and domain breakdown. It's the roadmap for your study plan. Never skip it.

Great list. I'd add: LinkedIn Learning has some mental health & psychology-related courses that overlap with cert content, and if you have a library card many libraries give free access to it. Also check if your local library has access to O'Reilly or similar — tons of technical content there.

For ABCN - American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology specifically, I found the PracticeTestGeeks explanations were detailed enough that I didn't need to buy a separate study guide. The combination of doing the practice questions + reading every explanation (for both right and wrong answers) covered most of the content I needed.

Quick update for anyone tracking their progress in here. I just took a full PracticeTestGeeks ABCN - American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology practice test and pulled an 82. Two months ago I was sitting around 64, so I'm pretty happy with that jump. The explanations are what did it for me honestly. I wasn't just memorizing answers, I actually started understanding why I kept missing the same neuroanatomy questions over and over.

I'm planning to sit the real exam in early September, which gives me about three months to keep grinding. My weak spots are still assessment validity and a few of the lesion localization questions, so that's where my focus is going. If you're earlier in your prep, don't stress the first scores. Mine were rough. It really does click if you stick with it and actually read the breakdowns instead of skipping past them.

I'm not gonna lie, fitting this in around a full time job and kids was rough. I studied in the gaps. Twenty minutes on my lunch break, a bit more after the kids went down. What worked for me was doing short timed sets instead of trying to block out hours I didn't have. PracticeTestGeeks was the one I kept coming back to because I could knock out a chunk and actually read the explanations on the ones I missed. The abcn abcn neuropsychological testing and measurement set in particular ate me alive the first time through, but that's kind of the point.

If you're working full time like I was, my advice is don't wait for the perfect study session because it's never coming. Five questions in a parking lot still counts. It wasn't pretty and I definitely crammed more than I'd recommend, but spacing it out over a few months in tiny pieces is what got me there. You've got more time than you think, it's just scattered.