Does the real SPI exam look like Penny book / URR questions, or completely different?
All SPI prep materials — Penny book, URR, or anything else — are predicted questions, not pulled from the real ARDMS exam bank.
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All SPI prep materials — Penny book, URR, or anything else — are predicted questions, not pulled from the real ARDMS exam bank. Whether a specific book "matches" the real test more or less closely isn't really the right thing to evaluate.
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