Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 871 original practice questions covering the full scope of an interpersonal communication course, organized chapter by chapter — and it opens soon. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s Interpersonal Communication program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking an interpersonal communication course. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The bank holds 871 original questions across 10 chapters plus three Interpersonal Communication in Depth sets spanning the course’s concepts, plus applied and synthesis sets, covering the communication process, principles, and competence, culture and identity, self-concept, self-esteem, and self-disclosure, perception and attribution, emotions, verbal messages and language trouble spots, nonverbal codes and functions, listening, relationship development, maintenance, and dissolution, and conflict styles, patterns, and resolution. There is no licensing exam at the end of an interpersonal communication course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
PassProfessor’s Interpersonal Communication program is a chapter-simulation program for the undergraduate interpersonal communication course: 871 original practice questions across 10 chapters plus three Interpersonal Communication in Depth sets, an applied set, and a synthesis set, organized by textbook and edition so chapter drills and timed simulation exams match the chapter your instructor is teaching. It rehearses your instructor’s chapter tests and finals — there is no licensing exam for a college course — with results reported by chapter.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of an interpersonal communication course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch and checked against verified disciplinary facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
871 questions, organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 10-chapter structure that mirrors the standard interpersonal communication course, from foundations of interpersonal communication — process, principles, and competence through conflict — styles, patterns, and resolution, plus three Interpersonal Communication in Depth sets spanning the course’s concepts, plus applied and synthesis sets. The full chapter-by-chapter breakdown is in the coverage table below.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the perception lectures? Drill that chapter until spotting the attribution error feels automatic. Conflict test in ten days? Work the conflict chapter in sequence, the way your course presents it.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single chapter is another book’s two. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so the chapter number in your practice means the same chapter in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, perception and attribution, or conflict styles — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
A note on editions and course versions. Instructors adopt different textbooks and different editions of the same textbook, and departments periodically revise the course itself. The bank’s organization follows the discipline’s standard chapter structure — the sequence the field itself teaches — and the selector maps that structure onto your edition’s numbering, so a chapter that your book splits in two, or merges into one, still lines up with the practice built for it. Where an instructor reorders chapters, chapter drills can be assembled in your course’s order; the practice follows the syllabus, not the other way around.
The course at a glance
Interpersonal Communication has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what an interpersonal communication course covers and how to study it, see our Interpersonal Communication study guide.
| Undergraduate interpersonal communication — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Undergraduate college course (the standard introductory interpersonal communication course; commonly required for communication majors and widely taken for general-education and professional-program requirements) |
| Standard scope | Foundations of interpersonal communication — process, principles, and competence; culture, identity, and interpersonal communication; the self — self-concept, self-esteem, and self-disclosure; perception — selecting, organizing, and interpreting others; emotions — feeling, expressing, and managing; verbal messages — language, meaning, and misunderstanding; nonverbal messages — codes, channels, and functions; listening — process, types, and barriers; relationship dynamics — development, maintenance, and dissolution; conflict — styles, patterns, and resolution |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | 871 original questions across 10 chapters + Interpersonal Communication in Depth, applied, and synthesis sets |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
Every question in the bank carries the chapter it belongs to. Counts below are the bank itself, counted question by question from the delivered file — they sum to 871.
| Chapter | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| 1. Foundations of Interpersonal Communication: Process, Principles, and Competence | 51 |
| 2. Culture, Identity, and Interpersonal Communication | 51 |
| 3. The Self: Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, and Self-Disclosure | 51 |
| 4. Perception: Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting Others | 51 |
| 5. Emotions: Feeling, Expressing, and Managing | 51 |
| 6. Verbal Messages: Language, Meaning, and Misunderstanding | 51 |
| 7. Nonverbal Messages: Codes, Channels, and Functions | 51 |
| 8. Listening: Process, Types, and Barriers | 51 |
| 9. Relationship Dynamics: Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution | 51 |
| 10. Conflict: Styles, Patterns, and Resolution | 51 |
| Interpersonal Communication in Depth I | 77 |
| Interpersonal Communication in Depth II | 65 |
| Interpersonal Communication in Depth III | 98 |
| Applied Analysis | 38 |
| Synthesis and Integration | 83 |
| Total | 871 |
The bank’s weight is deliberately balanced: the ten core chapters carry 51 questions each, and the layers — the three Interpersonal Communication in Depth sets (77, 65, and 98 questions) with the applied set (38 questions) and the synthesis set (83 questions) — carry the combination work, matching a course whose finals present unlabeled scenarios rather than chapter-tagged definitions.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Interpersonal Communication, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Watch your chapter breakdown. Your results show which chapters are costing you. Return to the weakest chapter’s drill before moving on — interpersonal communication builds lens on lens — the perception chapter’s errors reappear inside the conflict chapter’s patterns, self-disclosure theory is spent by the relationship chapter, and the listening skills presuppose the verbal and nonverbal codes, so an early gap resurfaces wherever the course turns.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the integrated set before midterms and finals. The cross-chapter questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the start of the term.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Interpersonal communication is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official communication exam at the end of it. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the tests your own instructor gives, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the undergraduate course.
How many practice questions are in the program? The bank holds 871 original questions: the 10 chapters of the standard course, three Interpersonal Communication in Depth sets, an applied-analysis set, and a synthesis set. Every question is tagged to its chapter, so drills and simulations can be built over exactly the chapters your test covers.
Which textbook does the program follow? The program is organized around the standard chapter structure of the interpersonal communication course, and the textbook-and-edition selector maps the bank onto your book’s chapter order when you set up your course. No textbook is named, branded, or reproduced — the selector only aligns chapter numbering.
Is this a public speaking course? No. Public speaking addresses audiences; this course addresses one-to-one and small-scale interaction — conversations, relationships, families, and workplaces. The two courses sit in the same department and share a foundations vocabulary, but their subjects and assessments differ, and each has its own program.
Does the program make me a better communicator? It rehearses the knowledge layer: recognizing concepts inside real interactions, classifying scenes accurately, and choosing responses the course’s frameworks support. Skill itself is built by practicing in actual relationships and in any skills components your section runs — the program’s honest role is making the concepts retrievable so that practice and feedback have something to work with.
What are the Interpersonal Communication in Depth, applied, and synthesis sets? Second-pass material. The in-depth sets revisit the course’s concepts in three layered sets at finer distinction; the applied set presents compact scenarios from workplaces, families, and friendships; the synthesis set combines chapters the way cumulative finals do — perception errors operating inside conflicts, culture framing disclosure.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters, so your practice can match a single chapter test, a unit exam, or a cumulative final.
My course mixes interpersonal with small-group material. Is this the same program? The bank covers the interpersonal core — self, perception, messages, listening, relationships, conflict — that combined courses share. Small-group and team chapters belong to their own courses; your drills are built over the chapters your syllabus assigns, so a combined course simply uses the overlapping set.
How much of the course is theory versus skills? Both, in the discipline’s usual balance: named models and research concepts, assessed largely through scenarios, plus skills guidance — perception checking, I-language, paraphrasing, conflict steps — that the concepts justify. Sections vary in whether they add live skills assessments; your syllabus states your section’s mix.
When can I start using the Interpersonal Communication program? Soon — the 871-question bank is complete and quality-checked, and the program is in final preparation. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of an interpersonal communication course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.