For master’s-level practice — specialized knowledge and advanced skills, normally after an MSW and before the supervised hours a clinical license requires.
Commonly leads to LMSW, LGSW, LAMSW — though the title varies by jurisdiction. Check yours.
73.9%
Of the 20,636 people who sat the Masters exam for the first time in 2025 across all ASWB member jurisdictions.
ASWB notes that pass rates are most representative for groups of more than 200 candidates. This cohort is well above that.
Source: ASWB exam pass rates, last verified August 16, 2026. We publish no pass rate of our own — no preparation provider can honestly claim one.
Scoped to this exam. Of the 124 applied knowledge statements across all four content outlines, 109 are on the Masters exam — the rest are not shown to you and are not counted against you.
From Ethical Principles and Responsibilities, which you can read in full without an account.
What does the NASW Code of Ethics say about the relationship between violating one of its standards and legal liability?
States whose license rules we have read on their own board’s site. We are working through the rest and will not list a state until we have checked it.
The same for every category: 122 questions, of which 110 are scored and 12 are unscored pretest items, in 2 sections of 61 with 240 minutes in total. More on how the exam works.
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