EPPP study materials: the free, official ones

The most useful EPPP study materials are free, and most candidates never open them. ASPPB, the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, which owns the exam, provides no preparation course, but it publishes the blueprint the exam is built on, a Candidate Handbook and sample exams, and it names them as the resources to prepare with. The blueprint itself names four documents, and all four can be downloaded at no cost. This guide sets out what ASPPB points to, the four documents and what to read in each, the free research and guidelines behind the rest of the syllabus, and how to judge any book, course or app against them.

The short answer

• ASPPB's own materials are the place to start: it "recommends that candidates use the integrated EPPP blueprint, sample examination, and Candidate Handbook as primary resources." The blueprint and the Handbook are free; the sample exams are sold.
• The blueprint names four documents: the APA's Ethics Code, the CPA's Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists, the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, and the APA's telepsychology guidelines. All four are free from their publishers.
• The blueprint names no textbook. The rest of the syllabus rests on research and clinical guidelines, many of them free too.
• Judge any other source by the blueprint it follows, the documents it cites and their editions, and whether its practice questions are original.

What ASPPB says to study from

ASPPB is plain that the preparation materials are not its business. At its virtual town hall of December 11, 2025, the slide on "How to prepare for the EPPP?" said that "ASPPB as the owner of the EPPP is not involved to provide test preparation materials," and named the "EPPP Candidate Handbook and Sample Exams." Its FAQ adds the blueprint to those two as the primary resources. Here is what each is.

• The blueprint is ASPPB's page of the integrated EPPP's six domains, their weights, and the 23 competencies and 77 statements of knowledge and skill under them. ASPPB announced it on February 11, 2026, and it is free on ASPPB's site. It is the syllabus: whatever else you use should map onto it. Our guide to the EPPP's domains walks through it.
• The Candidate Handbook is a free PDF on registration, fees, the testing day, scoring and retakes. It is about taking the exam, not about psychology, so it is short reading, best done early.
• The sample exams are the only practice ASPPB itself sells, and it says what they are for: "Because the sample exams consist of old, retired, or unused EPPP knowledge items, they are not recommended for you to take in order to assess areas where additional study might be needed." The integrated EPPP has its own sample exam, "Developed using the same blueprint and test development processes as the operational integrated EPPP," which "contains 100 questions and allows 150 minutes for completion"; ASPPB offers it "to candidates approved as licensure applicants in an ASPPB member jurisdiction and authorized to take the EPPP Beta." Our guide to what the EPPP costs lists the sample exams' prices.

The four documents the blueprint names

The blueprint's domain on Ethical and Professional Practice is the one place it names sources. Its first statement of knowledge is "Current ethical principles and codes for psychologists (American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association)," and its second is "Professional standards and relevant guidelines for the practice of psychology (e.g., Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, telepsychology guidelines)." The "e.g." marks the second list as examples rather than a closed set, on our reading, but those are the documents ASPPB chose to name.

Each is free from its publisher's website; the links are in the sources below.

The APA's Ethics Code

The Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct has five aspirational General Principles and enforceable Ethical Standards in ten sections, from Resolving Ethical Issues to Therapy. Read the Introduction too: it sets out whom the code binds and how it relates to the law. The current text took effect on January 1, 2017.

The CPA's Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists

The CPA's code, in its fourth edition of 2017, is built on four principles that are ordered by the weight each generally gets when they conflict, with a ten-step process for ethical decisions. Our guide comparing the APA and CPA codes sets the two side by side, which is how the blueprint lists them.

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

The Standards come from three organizations, the American Educational Research Association, the APA and the National Council on Measurement in Education, and their site now says that "The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing are now open access." The 2014 edition is the current one. It has 13 chapters in three parts, foundations, operations and testing applications; chapter 10 is "Psychological Testing and Assessment," and the course's assessment lessons draw most on the chapters on validity, reliability and fairness.

The APA's telepsychology guidelines

The APA Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology were approved in August 2024, and they say plainly what kind of document they are: "Guidelines differ from standards in that standards are mandatory and may be accompanied by an enforcement mechanism. Thus, guidelines are aspirational, and are not intended to guide regulatory action." The course's lessons on technology, in the Intervention and ethics domains, draw on them, from competence with the technology to practice across jurisdictions.

Beyond the named documents

The blueprint names no textbook, and the other 75 statements rest on the research and guidelines of each field. Much of that is free as well. Two examples from the course's own sources: the World Health Organization publishes its clinical descriptions and diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 mental disorders, the CDDR, free; and the Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments' (CANMAT) 2023 depression guidelines are open access. Clinical practice guidelines from professional bodies, statistics from public agencies and open-access reviews fill in much of the rest.

None of these is a study guide, and reading them end to end is not the point. They are the documents a good study source should be built on, and the place to check a fact you doubt.

How to judge any other source

Prep books, courses and apps differ widely, and this guide names none. Four questions sort them, and they apply to this course too.

1. Which blueprint does it follow? The integrated EPPP's blueprint was announced in February 2026. If you take the EPPP for the first time from fall 2027, a source built on today's Part 1, with its eight content areas, covers a different outline; our guide to the 2027 change explains who takes which exam.
2. Does it cite its sources, with editions? A claim about the ethics codes should name the code and its edition, and a claim about a disorder should say which diagnostic system it follows. Unsourced summaries are where errors hide.
3. Are its practice questions original? ASPPB's Handbook reminds candidates that "they have an ethical and legal duty not to divulge the content of the EPPP," so questions said to be recalled from the live exam come from someone breaking that duty. Our guide to EPPP practice questions explains why they are off limits.
4. Does it match the exam's demands? The integrated EPPP asks you to apply knowledge, across six domains, in 215 questions over five hours. A source should practice that, not just list facts.

On our reading of the blueprint, the strongest plan pairs the free official documents with a source that turns them into practice, and the study plan guide shows how to divide the weeks.

A question to try

The course's questions look like this one: a situation, a lead-in that names the task, four options and one best answer, with the reasoning and its source. It comes from Scientific Orientation to Practice, 15% of the integrated EPPP, and it is about finding the right sources, which is this guide's subject too.

Where to start

• Download the four documents. The links are in the sources below, and the ethics codes are worth reading first.
• Find your starting point. A free account starts with a short diagnostic, 18 questions in about 25 minutes, and builds your study order from the exam's weights and from what you already know.
• Read a domain in full. With a free account, the eight Consultation and Supervision lessons open in full, with their questions and flashcards and the sources each one rests on.
• Practice at length. Full access opens all 85 lessons and their 2,902 questions, and the timed 215-question mock.