How close are Photography practice tests to the real exam? My honest review

Appreciate the honest breakdown. This is the kind of post I was looking for when I started studying. I'm about to start Photography & Media prep — would you say the same pattern holds there?

One thing I noticed for the Product Photography content specifically: the practice questions here tend to emphasize procedural steps, which is exactly how the real exam frames things. So if you're doing the Photography & Media exams, pay attention to the ORDER of steps, not just the steps themselves.

This matches my experience almost exactly. The Photography practice tests here are solid for building baseline knowledge. I'd add that the detailed explanations for wrong answers were actually what helped me most — understanding WHY an answer is wrong is just as valuable as knowing the right one.

This is really helpful, thanks for breaking it down. I'm still mid-study and honestly the exposure triangle stuff has been clicking for me, but I keep second-guessing myself on the lighting ratios and color temperature questions — are those heavily tested on the actual exam, or is the practice test emphasis there kind of inflated compared to what you saw?

The part I'm most nervous about is the technical camera settings questions. Like, I can nail aperture and depth of field conceptually, but when they ask you to pick the exact shutter speed for a specific scenario it feels like there's always two answers that both seem reasonable. Did you find the real exam was more cut-and-dry on those, or is that ambiguity kind of baked in?

Also curious how the composition and rule-of-thirds questions compared. The practice sets I've been using seem to weight those pretty heavily but some people I've talked to said the actual exam is way more technical than compositional. Would love to know if your experience matched that.