30-Day RBT Exam Study Plan
A free, structured plan to take you from zero to exam-ready in 30 days. Built around the BACB RBT Task List 2.0 weightings — heavier days on Skill Acquisition and Behavior Reduction (24% each), lighter days on the smaller content areas.
- Days 1–3
Measurement fundamentals
Frequency, rate, duration, latency, IRT, reliability. Take the sectional quiz after.
⏱️ 1.5 h/day
- Days 4–6
- Days 7–11
Skill Acquisition (deep dive)
DTT, chaining, prompting hierarchies, shaping, generalization. This is 24% of the exam — slow down here.
⏱️ 2 h/day
- Days 12–16
Behavior Reduction (deep dive)
Function-based interventions, crisis procedures, BIPs. Also 24% of the exam.
⏱️ 2 h/day
- Days 17–19
- Days 20–22
- Days 23–25
- Days 26–28
Full practice exams
Take exam 1, exam 2, exam 3 on separate days. Time them. Review every wrong answer.
⏱️ 2 h/day
- Day 29
- Day 30
Tips that matter more than the plan
- Active recall > passive reading. Every study session, end with a quiz on what you just read.
- Track your wrong answers in a notebook with the competency code and why you got it wrong. Re-quiz those competencies in week 4.
- Time your full exams. 90 minutes for 85 questions = ~64 seconds per question. Practice that pacing.
- Skip then return on the real exam. Don't burn 5 minutes on one question.