Does practice experience help or hurt?
Both. It helps with recognizing situations and it can hurt on ordering, because real agencies work within constraints the exam does not model. Naming that difference explicitly is often the single most useful session for an experienced candidate.
This comes up on ASWB Retake Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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