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RBT Behavior Acquisition Quiz

Formerly the Skill Acquisition domain

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The largest domain on the exam — teaching procedures, prompting, reinforcement and the transfer of new skills to real settings. Domain C is about 25% of the RBT exam — 19 of the 75 scored questions — so it is worth knowing exactly where you stand on it. These 25 questions do not overlap with our full-length exams.

Aligned to the RBT Task List 3rd Edition (effective 1 January 2026) · Last content review: August 2026 · How we write our questions

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25 questions · 27 minutes in Exam Mode · free, no sign-up, unlimited retakes.

Your answers save to this browser as you go, so a refresh or a dropped connection will not lose your progress. Nothing is uploaded and no account is created. The real exam is 85 questions in 90 minutes at Pearson VUE.

What is on this exam

This exam contains 25 questions. Here is the actual domain mix — counted from the questions themselves, not an estimate.

Domain mix of this exam
DomainQuestions hereThis examReal exam
C. Behavior Acquisition25100%~25%
Total25100%100%

If you trained on the RBT Task List 2nd Edition you will know this domain as "Skill Acquisition". The BACB renamed it to "Behavior Acquisition" in the 3rd Edition, effective for exams from 1 January 2026. The content overlaps heavily but is not identical, and the exam now uses the new name.

The real RBT exam format

The RBT examination is delivered at Pearson VUE test centres. 85 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, four options each, of which 75 are scored and 10 are unscored pilot items. The BACB uses scaled scoring and publishes no fixed percentage pass mark.

RBT Task List 3rd Edition domain weighting and scored question counts
Domain (3rd Edition)FormerlyWeightScored Qs
A. Data Collection and GraphingMeasurement~17%13
B. Behavior AssessmentAssessment~11%8
C. Behavior AcquisitionSkill Acquisition~25%19
D. Behavior Reduction—~19%14
E. Documentation and ReportingDocumentation~13%10
F. EthicsProfessional Conduct and Scope of Practice~15%11
Total100%75

The real exam delivers 85 questions in 90 minutes: 75 scored plus 10 unscored pilot questions that do not count toward your result.

Frequently asked questions

How many questions are on the RBT exam?
The RBT exam delivers 85 multiple-choice questions. Only 75 of them are scored — the other 10 are unscored pilot questions the BACB is trialling for future exams, and you cannot tell which is which while you are testing. You get 90 minutes for all 85, which works out to roughly 63 seconds per question.
What score do you need to pass the RBT exam?
There is no fixed percentage. The BACB uses scaled scoring, which converts your raw score to a scaled score to account for small differences in difficulty between exam forms, and it does not publish a percentage pass mark. Many candidates use 80% on full-length practice exams as a personal readiness benchmark, but that is a study target people set for themselves — not the pass mark, and no practice site can tell you the number you need.
How long is the RBT exam?
You have 90 minutes to answer all 85 questions. The appointment itself runs longer because of check-in, ID verification and the tutorial at the testing centre, so allow extra time. Pace matters more than most candidates expect: 90 minutes for 85 questions is about 63 seconds each, which is why our exams run a real countdown clock.
Are these practice questions the real RBT exam questions?
No, and you should be sceptical of any site that claims otherwise. Real exam items are secure and copyrighted, and reproducing them would be both illegal and a violation of the BACB Ethics Code. Every question here is original, written independently against the publicly published RBT Test Content Outline (3rd Edition), and matched to the same domain weighting and question format as the real exam.
Do free RBT practice exams actually help?
They help most when they do two things: match the real domain weighting, so you are not over-practising one area, and explain why each wrong option is wrong, so a missed question teaches you something. Practice questions that only tell you the right answer train recognition rather than understanding. Taking at least one full-length attempt under a real 90-minute clock is also worth doing, because running out of time is a distinct problem from not knowing the content.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email wall and no paywall anywhere on this site. Your answers, flags and timer are saved in your own browser using localStorage, so you can close the tab mid-exam and pick up where you left off — nothing is uploaded to us.

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